TRACI HARMON-HAY - studio visit

current/upcoming

Apr 20

TRACI HARMON-HAY
studio visit

may 23- 31
reception: sunday may 25, 5-7
at her studio
95 commercial street, wellfleet
see artist’s page

Farm Projects is pleased to present this intimate art experience with Wellfleet artist, Traci Harmon-Hay. This self-curated exhibition offers a glimpse into Harmon-Hay’s studio, threading together concurrent yet disparate bodies of work, from paintings and assemblages that redefine the tradition of coastal seascapes to selections of Harmon-Hay’s activist political cartoons. Paintings of domestic spaces – floating houses detached from carefully maintained yards; ominously large swimming pools – serve as a counterpoint to the artist’s more direct political examinations of American life.

Also on view will be selections from her recent “Floating Boats” series which depict colorful boats anchored in the water yet floating above it. As the artist describes: “Whichever way the viewer perceives the vessel, as either hovering, ascending, or descending, the line is there to remind us that we are always connected and forever dependent on our environment.” In Harmon-Hay’s current body of work, these surreal paintings are miniaturized and incorporated into utilitarian objects such as fish cans, matchboxes and matchbooks. Through these works, these objects are transformed from something strictly functional and disposable into an opportunity to consider the connection between human societies and the natural world.

Throughout the exhibition, Harmon-Hay’s concern with the complexities of contemporary life and landscape appears across ideas and mediums, culminating in an intimate portrait of the artist at work.

This exhibition will be at Traci Harmon-Hay’s studio, 95 Commercial Street, Wellfleet.

About the Artist. Traci Harmon-Hay received her BFA in illustration and painting from the Maryland Institute of Art and studied with Fritz Briggs of the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore. Represented by New York's Creative Freelancers, Harmon-Hay co-founded Studio Six, an illustration co-op. Her clients included the Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, Nation's Business Magazine, Yankee Publishing and Campbell's. To escape the commercial aspect of art she moved to Wellfleet, Cape Cod in 1996 to pursue her visual art studies. She owned the Harmon Gallery in Wellfleet from 2000 until 2014, and continued to exhibit her work there along with many other local and nationally renowned artists until it closed in January 2021. She has exhibited her work at the Left Bank Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Fountain Street Gallery, Carver Hill, WHEN Studio and FARM Projects. She lives in Wellfleet with her husband and two daughters.