His baroque fusions of bright paint, wood and other detritus wowed the art world. But as his fame faded, he turned his attention to historic preservation. By Adam Nossiter Michael Tracy ...

SAN ANTONIO — Has there ever been another Texas artist like the recently deceased Michael Tracy? The sculptor, painter and maker of rare objects — as well as sometime magus who oversaw ...

Using the name Tracy 168, he was a pioneering graffiti artist during the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s in New York. By Alex Williams Michael Tracy, a Bronx-bred graffiti artist known as Tracy 168 ...

Michael Tracy wasn’t one for understatement. The artist called himself a maximalist, and his final Houston show was a carnival of more. The exhibition teemed with tempestuous energy: viscous ...

Michael Tracy strongly suspected he would not live to see his first museum exhibit in decades open at the McNay Art Museum. “He was aware how sick he was,” said René Paul Barilleaux ...

Most museum goers won’t be familiar with Michael Tracy unless they were similarly engaged with contemporary art, particularly in Texas, in the 1970s, when Tracy was a rising star.