# Trace Fryer

Trace Fryer (born Tracy Ann Johnson) is a musician, songwriter, poet, painter, illustrator, sculptor and gallerist.
As an artist, she had also worked under the name Trace Johansson. In 2020, her collection of works Animal-Human Art was published in The STEAM Journal. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. The Steam Journal is an interdisciplinary, online publication. According to her biography at the journal:
   Trace's work is exhibited and collected internationally. Her paintings are found in galleries and private collections of corporations, celebrities to non-profit organizations.

## Early life and career

Fryer earned her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2001 with a major in Illustration/Fine Arts. While in college she illustrated for The Beastly Ball at the Los Angeles Zoo. The Beastly Ball is a fundraiser with interactive events for and at the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. She also had additional studies with poet laureate Maxine Kumin at Pitzer College. In 2005, Fryer's artwork was exhibited at the gallery of the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA), an Australian association of animal studies scholars, scientists, creative artists, and animal advocates. She would later be the founder of TAJ ART INC. Studio Gallery in 2016, which was one of the first wherein a portion of all proceeds are donated to animal welfare groups around the world to generate more conscious daily decisions that can help support animals worldwide with the understanding that all animals should be treated equally with compassion, dignity and respect.
In 2022, she was one of the artists in program led by the Sherman Oaks Chamber Foundation and the Studio City Business Improvement District (SCBID) for the painting of the utility boxes of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). She had painted a picnic scene for the utility box at Van Nuys Boulevard at Hortense Street.

## Gallerist exhibitions
### 2017

Fryer's gallery, TAJ ART, was part of the collection of galleries in Los Angeles presenting Latin American and Latinx artwork in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which was art event celebrating Latin American art in over 70 museums and galleries in Los Angeles and Southern California held from September 2017 through early 2018.

### 2018

* The solo exhibition of Steve Seleska, which was featured in ArtWeek magazine.
* The Perfectly Imperfect exhibition, curated with Jennifer Faist, with artwork for Barbara Kerwin, Mike Vegas, and Sandra Vista. The event had featured music from Randy Ray Mitchell, Tisa Adamson, and Brian Duncan, which was featured in Artillery Magazine.

## Animal studies exhibitions

The artwork of Fryer has been a part of variety of programs creating awareness for animals. She is trained and certified in of Interpretative Nature Education, and Healing Touch for Animals in Energy Medicine. She believes animals are sentient, conscious creatures that live in a state of awareness of being, and her artwork is ethereal, as well as her music with her husband John Fryer.
* The gallery for the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) (2005).
* LA Zoo's Beastly Ball (1998).

## Gallery

* Untitled Animal-Human Art
* Gold Girl