"Viva Cuba"

"Viva Cuba" Extended to June 26th with Award Winning Photograph

An exhibit featuring both portraits and street photography of Havana and Vinales, Cuba by Ann Tracy has been extended to June 26th at the Ann Tracy Fine Art and Photography space inside Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St, Portland.  Included in this exhibit is an iPod photo - Mujer Doble - which won an Honorable Mention prize at the Professional Women Photographers' 2013 International Show in New York. (http://pwponline.org/display_exhibition_winners.php?s=54)

Tracy was in Cuba earlier this year on a people to people cultural exchange led by internationally renowned photographer Elizabeth Opalenik and organized by the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.  Tracy is also a member of the Maine Artists Collective and has been vetted by U.S. Artists, a nonprofit group in Los Angeles, and successfully used their unique fundraising program for her next body of work entitled "The Three Graces For Environmental Awareness" which will be shown later this year. 

"My conceit in designing the exhibit is that my little gallery within Constellation should evoke a truly Cuban feel", Tracy said.  "That's why we're emulating the Cuban "dryer" look - which is hanging the mounted photographs on clothes lines with clothes pins.  It also reminds me of my childhood in Maine where it was my job to hang out the laundry as the oldest girl in the family."

This is Tracy's first solo photographic show in Portland since moving here almost two years ago.  Although she grew up in Maine, NH and Massachusetts, her family moved to Colorado in 1969.  She most recently lived in Sacramento CA where she not only exhibited in many venues such as the Center for Contemporary Art and Asylum Gallery but her work has also been shown in galleries and museums in California, New Mexico, New York and Maui.