"Celebrating beauty and grace, Tracy Murrell takes silhouettes of women and applies them to patterned paper in order to create harmony essential to exist in this world as a woman of color. Inspired by the poise and elegance of women, Murrell repeats poses to familiarize the viewer with her subjects and then surprises them with the patterns she combines to create coherence. Modest in posture, the artworks offer an alternative to the stereotypical views of women of color as loud and hypersexual. The silhouettes atop the decorative backdrops disrupt the contemplative stances of her subjects but renders them harmonious with the busyness."     ~ ​Art Twenty One, Lagos, Nigeria​

On Their Wings We Will Fly  
​12 x 12 in, high gloss enamel, chiyogami papers, marbled paper, resin, 2019

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