Tracy Harris
American artist
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Tracy Harris (born 1958) is an American artist, known for her abstract, encaustic paintings.[1][2][3] Tracy Harris lives in Milford, Pennsylvania.[4]
Tracy Harris | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 24, 1958 |
| Education | Southern Methodist University |
| Spouse | Dan Flavin 1992-1996 (his death) Lucian K. Truscott IV 2021- present |
Biography
Tracy Harris was born in 1958 in Lawton, Oklahoma, and she grew up in Dallas, Texas until age 10.[4][5] Her parents are Janene Harris and architect, Hayes Harris.[6][5] After age 10, the family moved a lot after her father took a civilian architect role with the United States Army and Air Force, they lived in Honolulu, Guam, Manila, and Thailand.[5]
She attended Southern Methodist University, receiving a BFA degree and MFA degree in 1983. After college she worked at the Dallas Museum of Art and taught painting classes.[5]
It was through her work at the Dallas museum she was connected by a mutual friend to minimalist artist Dan Flavin, initially as a penpal and later as long-distance dating.[5] She married Dan Flavin in 1992 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[6][7] Harris later lived between Long Island, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut after the marriage.[6] Four years after the marriage, Flavin died from complications from his diabetes.[7]
Her artwork is in a number of museum collections, including Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[4] Telfair Museum, Savannah,[5] the Amarillo Museum of Art, among others.