CHILDHOOD
acrylic on panel 2019 20" x 20"
acryic on panel 2019 24" x 20"
acrylic on canvas 2016 48" x 36"
acrylic on panel 2121 14" x 14"
acrylic on panel 2021 16" x 12"
acrylic on canvas 2019 48" x 72"
acrylic on panel 2019 24" x 20"
acrylic on canvas 2015 20" x 24",
acrylic on canvas 2016 14" X 14"
acrylic on canvas 2009 60" X 84"
acrylic on canvas 2018 24" X 20"
acrylic on panel 2019 24" x 20"
acrylic on panel 2018 24" x 20"
acrylic on canvas 2016 20" x 20"
acrylic on panel 2021 30" x 15"
acrylic on canvas 2016 30" X 15"
acrylic on canvas 2015 12" X 12"
acrylic on canvas 2016 28" X 22"
acrylic on canvas 2013 48” X 72”
acrylic on canvas 2014 44" X 34"
acrylic on canvas 2016 24" X 18"
acrylic on canvas 2009 36" X 48"
acrylic on canvas 2014 44" X 34"
ARTIST STATEMENT
Translating photographic images into paintings, I offer the viewer an opportunity to focus on the human condition and how alike we all are. Amidst the saturation of images on any subject, I zero in on the ones that convey, at a glance, a depth of emotion.
I am drawn to sources that range from public media to private snapshots. I choose the images I can’t stop thinking about. At first I stick close to the source photo, but as I work some things are omitted and others are added. As I invent my own version of the details, each painting takes on a life and logic of its own. The final product is often very different from its inspiration. What it does convey is the feeling the photo evoked in me when I first encountered it.
BIO
Winner of the Sanchez Art Center’s Left Coast Annual Award, Traeger presented her work in a solo exhibition in April 2014. Her work has also been featured recently in Smith Anderson Editions’ Gender Specific show, and in Artik: Art and Architecture’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition.