She is a native New Englander who grew up in the Maine towns of Fryeburg and Cape Neddick before her family moved south to Massachusetts and then west to Colorado in 1969. After decades of living in Colorado, Wisconsin and California, Tracy now calls Rockport, Maine home with her husband. She is a founding member of the Midcoast Chapter of Union of Maine Artists (UMVA), Monotype Guild of New England, Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset and Professional Women Photographers (NY). She also serves on the board of directors of UMVA.
"I'm a big fan of ambiguity and chance in making art, since my salad days as a modern dancer (early 1970s) and learning Merce Cunningham’s theory of Chance Dance and about the work of the Dadaists. I also use conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from my other life practices of performance, theater, dance, and journalism. In calling myself a digital alchemist, I'm trying to reference both a classical past and a forward reaching future in which images with one meaning are combined with others to create new and poetic meanings. It's as if I'm being called home to a dream world in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift, past and present fuse.”
Tracy’s fine art has been exhibited from Japan to Maui to New York City to Spain and Budapest, Hungary. She was a 2014, 2015 and 2016 finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron competition and was invited to exhibit at the 3rd Photographic Biennale in Malaga, Spain 2014, as well as the Berlin Foto Biennial 2016. In 2003 her work, “Stop” was included in the catalog of the “Violence Against Women” exhibition, Group 78 Amnesty International, Tokyo, Japan. Her digital paintings “the Power of Cuba: Flamenco”, “The Power of Romania Lies in its Artists” and “Message 3” were juried into the 2013, 2010 and 2008 editions of “American Art Collector”. Tracy was a founding member of the Asylum Gallery in Sacramento during its existence from 2007 to 2009. She was also the first female voice at KTLK Denver radio in 1978, starting a 12 year stint doing radio news in Denver, Milwaukee, San Jose and Sacramento. She founded Beyond the Proscenium, a Sacramento theatre company in 1994, where she produced and directed until the company’s closure in 2009.