STEINFELD GALLERY & STUDIOS
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ANN TRACY
Ann Tracy received her BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and attended graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been included in exhibits at Tucson Museum of Art, UA Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Ann’s newest series “(r)evolution,” began on residency in Ireland in the fall of 2024. There was a sense of unsettled, of movement in the ground. Revolution or evolution, man-made or organic, something was happening. These minimal abstract paintings are influenced by what’s happening on our streets, but also what’s happening in Ann’s community garden. We plant seeds. They will sprout and something new grows. The word “luminous” means emitting light in the dark. Ann will talk about the type of luminous paints she uses and why she’s using them - to represent light and energy during these times of unrest and change.
AMBER DOE
Faithful Symbols explores American symbolism and identity through the imagery of the United States flag and the tradition of African American memory jugs. By bringing these two forms into conversation, the talk considers how objects can carry personal and collective histories, holding memories of family, community, loss, resilience, and belonging. The flag, as a widely recognized symbol of the nation, carries layered meanings that can evoke both ideals of freedom and experiences of exclusion, while memory jugs transform everyday objects into intimate vessels of remembrance. Together, these traditions provide a framework for examining who and what is remembered, how histories are preserved, and how American identity is continually shaped through memory, material culture, and lived experience.
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BARBARA ROGERS
Has good luck and timing played a role in your life and career? Many people feel that talent, training and long hours of hard work will get you where you want to go in the art world. There is a current reel circulating on social media that is new to me, but you may know about it. It is part of a video interview with an elderly Georgia O’Keefe. She talks about the importance of good luck in her life as perhaps playing a bigger role over her skill as a painter. I enjoyed hearing what she had to say because I think she nailed something that is not easy to accept or even think about. What part of our development as creative people is linked to the arbitrariness of countless facts and decisions made by us as well as made by others about us? She felt that her subject matter and many other aspects of her life were just right for the times of her time on earth. Along with years of the usual struggles to keep painting, I have had plenty of good luck! I see the timing of my life as a gift that I never take for granted. I knew I wanted to draw as soon as I could hold a pencil. I am the first in my family to go to college and even more amazing; I got to study art. I am still amazed that I had the certainty to graduate from Ohio State, marry a man I barely knew and leave for San Francisco on the same day when I was barely twenty-two. Now it seems miraculous that we got in an old car, headed for Route 66 with a few wedding checks to our name. From birth to now, I have been so lucky that most of my big and little life decisions over the years have led me to wonderful opportunities for learning, travel, meeting smart creative people, becoming a mother, learning from many visiting artist experiences, invitations to be in exhibitions in many cities and countries and the ultimate decision to join the faculty of the University of Arizona and get to live in beautiful Tucson.
HEATHER BENTZ
Heather Bentz will share her love of materials and describe how she integrates observation into execution of her work which ranges from drawing to painting to collage and beyond.
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ALEX MACIAS
My work is informed by my personal experience as a Mexican American and composed through a mixture of traditional rendering, abstraction, and bisected planes. Using the human form, I reference Mexican and Chicano iconography to convey living in liminal and culturally complex spaces. In this case, I reference the term "Nopal en la frente," which translates to "cactus on your forehead," a saying responding to Latinx individuals who are in conflict with their own identity.
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