Baker Artist Portfolios

BIO

Tracy Lambros (U.S.) lives in Howard County and works from her studio on Hoopers Island. She is known for her luminous oil paintings that evoke land, sea, and sky. She earned her MFA and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. 

Her latest solo exhibitions include Recent Paintings at Monument Sotheby’s (2022 - 2023), Transend (2021) and What Resonates (2019) at Gallery Blue Door. New works were selected for inclusion in: Woman’s Essence 2023 (Berlin, Germany), Changing Chesapeake at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (MD), Beyond the Horizon at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center (MD), 9 x 19 at First Street Gallery (NYC), Spectrum at Carriage Barn Art Center (CT), RED at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts (CA), and the upcoming Water v. Oil exhibition at D’Art (VA). Her drawings and photographs have also been chosen for numerous juried exhibitions including shows in Japan and China.

Current works were published in issues of Circle Quarterly Art Review, Voyage Baltimore, Tidewater Times, Canvas Rebel, and Vanity Fair U.K. Her recent painting Luminous Eventide 3 was awarded a purchase prize by Peterson Headquarters at National Harbor. When not in her studio, she spends time traveling, seeing exhibitions, bike riding, reading, gardening, and advocating for causes that make the world a less violent and more equitable place to live.

STATEMENT

My work grows out of a lifelong passion for natural spaces. The physical and psychological energy of a place, and the impact that energy has on the human spirit, mind, and body, has always fascinated me.  My paintings are evocations of land, sea, and sky- a response to nature filtered through memory and time, guided by an improvisational intuitive creative process. I am intrigued by capturing the dynamic interaction of the imagination, the sensual experience of painting, and the challenges that arise from a creative journey without a pre-determined outcome. I let the work unfold and evolve naturally and love the spontaneity of making marks, discovering textures fortuitously, finding shapes organically, and creating unexpected palettes. The works take on a life of their own when patterns and colors are filtered through the imagination of the viewer. Personal meaning resonates as the viewer enters the world of the painting, which is as ever-changing, wild, and enigmatic as the natural world that inspired it.