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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Tracy once told The New York Times that “religion’s closest cousin is not rigid logic but art,” and that “real religion does not give final answers; it makes us ask better questions.” ...

Judith Greene-Janse, Joanne Tarlin, and Ann Tracy, three artists who have lived across the US and now are relocated to coastal towns in Maine. The Midcoast Chapter of the Union of Maine Visual Artists ...