TRACEY PHYSIOC BROCKETT portfolio contact about blog Falling Bodies Little Ships Tangles 2020-2021 The Sagas: large scale work on paper Fugues: work on paper Nightnoises; small oils on canvas and panel Daily Tangles, work on paper work on paper 2012-2017 Haints and Dark Horses © copyright Tracey Physioc Brockett, 2021 all rights reserved

TRACEY PHYSIOC BROCKETT portfolio contact about blog portfolio / Little Ships I seem to enjoy a certain tension between 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional art. My drawings and paintings always feel to me as if they want to lift off of the page and grow into space. My sculptures have an uneasy relationship with their own shadows. Likewise, my work often explores other dualities, especially the tension between the well worked out and the ad hoc gestural. I honor the moment when, through process, through trial and error, a work holds both refinement and awkward rawness in a kind of balance. Evoking migrant ships, or swooning bodies, Little Ships are a series of vessels that are physically barely containers, boats that are open to chance and luck, held together with threads of hope and chased by shadows. Caught in one particular moment, at one particular angle, they are Momento Mori as a gesture drawing in 4 dimensions. Little Ship #6 2020 wire, buttons, beads, chicken wire, shadows Little Ship #8, view 2 Little Ship #8, view 3 Little Ship #8, view 4 Little Ship #7 2020 wire, buttons, beads, screws, tyvek, acrylic Little Ship #3 2019 wire, plaster, acrylic, beads, buttons and shadow gesture drawing in 4 dimensions Little Ship #3, view 2 2019 Little Ship #4 2019 wire, buttons, beads, shadow gesture drawing in 4 dimensions private collection Little Ship #4, view 2 2019 wire, buttons, beads private collection Little Ship #4 installation, ECA Gallery, July 2019. photo : Tracey Eller private collection Little Ship #2 left, Little Ship #1 partial view 2019 wire, plaster acrylic, beads, buttons, shadow gesture drawings in 4 dimensions. Private collection Little Ship#2, above, Armorball #1 below 2019 wire, buttons, beads, plaster, acrylic, lead Little Ship #2 2019 wire, plaster, acrylic, beads, buttons and shadow gesture drawing in 4 dimensions. private collection Little Ship #1 2019 wire, buttons, beads, plaster, acrylic private collection Little Ship #1, view 2 Little Ship #5 2019 wire, lead Little Ship #5, alt. view Little Ship #5, standing © copyright Tracey Physioc Brockett, 2021 all rights reserved