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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Tracy Longley-Cook
Associate Professor Wright State UniversitySchool of Fine and Performing ArtsDayton Ohio 45419 United States Cell Phone: 6025028752
Bio
Tracy Longley-Cook (b. 1973, Coronado, California) has her BFA and MFA in photography from the University of Washington (1997), and Arizona State University (2007). Tracy also studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops residency program from1994-95. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of photography and Area Head of Art and Art History at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Her interests as a visual artist, educator and curator are strongly influenced by themes relating to transformation, memory, and perception. Through the use of experimental and traditional techniques, Tracy incorporates a variety of working methods into her photography, prints and books. She has exhibited her work internationally, and some publications include The Book of Alternative Processes by Christopher James, and The Elements of Photography by Angela Faris-Belt. Curatorial projects include Emmet Gowin and his Contemporaries at the Dayton Art Institute, and The Fixed Shadow: Cameraless Images at the Wright State University Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries.
Artist Statement
Paths of the Ecliptic
The photographs in this series explore invented poetic spaces that examine acts of contemplation and the search for personal understanding within a turbid context. Text and images related to history, navigation, mathematical functions, and astronomical events are scanned and digitally assembled to construct a fabricated space that takes on an aura of mysticism. Taking inspiration from historic paintings, maps, and drawings that interpret the laws of physics, an imaginary pictorial space is created. Analogous to how myths provided explanations to natural and perceived experiences, this work seeks to draw the viewer into a sphere of lore and invention to contemplate fictitious realities. The common belief that photography is a truth-telling medium is averted by combining imagery that doesn’t typically have any relationship until the act of assemblage provides the viewer with a newly formed narrative.