Tracy Powers

The amusement park is the landscape of the modern American condition, where happiness is monetary, and spirituality is the defiance of our physical limitations.  My work explores this new frontier of American culture, where the beauty of the natural world is denied in favor of an artificial Utopia.  Yet even Utopia is flawed, and these environments of attempted perfection are at constant conflict with the surrounding human, natural condition.  My paintings explore this dualistic imagery of human fabrication verses natural creation within the landscape of this iconic American pastime.

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