ABOUT ME
Image above: “Untitled (Self-Portrait), 2021 - bent ash, found chair, ceramic, paint
ABOUT ME
Art making, for me, has been a potent form of spiritual, cultural, and ancestral way-finding. It is how I honor the deep sense of curiosity I’ve always carried, while cultivating a sense of presence and place. And though my work can at times be deeply personal, my goal is not necessarily to tell my own story, but rather to create objects, sculptures, and installations that viewers can find resonance with on varying emotional or phenomenological levels.
I work intuitively - calling most often on natural materials for their energetic richness while utilizing craft processes for their inherent poeticism. Many of the forms found in my work can be traced back to traditional Chinese practices in mysticism, mythology, cosmology, architecture, art, herbalism, and more. Though my interests are wide ranging, they are linked by a desire to feel connected, to my self, to others, and to the world around me.
From 2024-2026 I will be pursuing my MFA in Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. This pursuit comes after eight years spent in the Bay Area, where I earned my BFA from California College of the Arts with a concentration in Ceramics. I look forward to deepening my work and will continue to post updates here on my website and more frequently through my instagram, which you can find below. As always, e-mail is the best way to reach me. Thanks for being here, more to come soon <3.
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e-mail: tracy.mary.ren@gmail.com
instagram: @t_r_a_c_y__r_e_n