Tracy Thomason was born in Gaithersburg, MD in 1984. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Tracy received her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006, and her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008.

Her solo shows include Cuevas Tilleard Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and her current show at Marinaro Gallery. She’s had group exhibtiions at Impreial College London, Devening Projects in Chicago, 106 Green in Brooklyn, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, TSA LA, Jeff Bailey Gallery, James Fuentes and many others.

Her work has been covered in the New Yorker, Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings and several others.

She attended the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency with Dana Schutz in Florida and she recieved a Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship. She has taught at the Interlochen School for the Arts, Cooper Union, MICA, Drew University and the University of Tennessee.

Brian met up with Tracy in her Brooklyn studio on the occasion of her solo show at Marinaro in the Lower East Side and they discussed her school days and destined path, her working as a personal chef, the materiality in her painting and even Alfred Lord Tennyson.