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  • Tangerine Dreamscape 2
    Tangerine Dreamscape 2

    Tangerine Dreamscape 2 (private collection), oil on canvas, 13" x 16" framed, 2024. This painting is included in my solo exhibition of small works: Photos and Paintings at Gallery Blue Door in Baltimore (January 25 - March 22, 2025). Inspired by the marsh grasses on Hoopers Island on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

  • Red Kauai
    Red Kauai

    Red Kauai, oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 20" x 20", 2020. Featured in the publication Woman's Essence: The Women of Contemporary Art and in the corresponding exhibition in Berlin, Germany, and at  Beyond the Horizon: Explorations of Landscape at Anne Marie Sculpture Garden and Art Center in Maryland as well as the RED exhibition at O'Hanlon Center for the Art in California. Turbulent times including: news of widespread of wildfires, political upheaval, Covid invaded my thoughts and influenced my palette as I painted works with a ground palette of deep red.  

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  • Enigmatic Paradise
    Enigmatic Paradise

    Enigmatic Paradise, oil on canvas, 26" x 26", 2024 was included in my recent solo exhibition New Paintings by Tracy Lambros at the Gallery at Monument Sotheby's International Realty in the Village of Cross Keys, Baltimore (October 10, 2024- January 17, 2025) and in the national juried exhibition Water v. Oil at D'Art in Norfolk, Virginia. Inspired by my "Paradise" on Hooper's Island which is in peril as climate change and rising tides threaten the small island. 

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  • Floral Fete
    Floral Fete

    Floral Fete, oil on canvas, 26" x 26", 2024. This work was on view in my recent solo exhibition New Paintings by Tracy Lambros at  The Gallery at Monument Sotheby's International Realty in the Village of Cross Keys, Baltimore (October 10, 2024- January 17, 2025). Flowers dance in the breeze on a sultry evening.     

     

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About Tracy

Howard County  

BIO

Tracy Lambros (b. Baltimore) lives in Howard County. Many of her recent works are inspired by Hoopers Island on Maryland's Eastern Shore- the tiny island community where she paints several months of the year. 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… more

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NEW PAINTINGS Solo Exhibition: The Gallery at Monument Sotheby's International Realty in the Village of Cross Keys October 10, 2024 - January 17, 2025

This solo exhibition featured 30 oil paintings created between 2022 and 2024. Many works are inspired by natural surroundings on Hoopers Island where I paint for several months a year. The abundant beauty belies the fact that climate change and rising tides are currently threatening this small community and residents are at the mercy of high and low tides.  The later works such as Beacon and Passage to Beyond were influenced by the recent death of my mother Mary Ann Lambros, who lived a very creative life and supported artists and the arts in Baltimore. 

  • Gallery Installation Shot: Left side of main gallery
    Gallery Installation Shot: Left side of main gallery
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  • Gallery installation Site Shot: Small works - Vast, Limitless, Unbounded
    Gallery installation Site Shot: Small works - Vast, Limitless, Unbounded
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  • Gallery Installation Site Shot: Tangerine Dreamscape 1, Tangerine Dreamscape 2, Splendid Day
    Gallery Installation Site Shot: Tangerine Dreamscape 1, Tangerine Dreamscape 2, Splendid Day
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  • Gallery Installation Site Shot: Large painting - Beacon, Two small works: Lush Light, Lavish Glow
    Gallery Installation Site Shot: Large painting - Beacon, Two small works: Lush Light, Lavish Glow
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  • Gallery Installation Site Shot: Enigmatic Paradise in middle of two small works: Sultry Sky over Tar Bay and Captivated
    Gallery Installation Site Shot: Enigmatic Paradise in middle of two small works: Sultry Sky over Tar Bay and Captivated
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  • Beacon
    Beacon

    Beacon, Oil on canvas, 30" x 48", 2024. Several of my works began with all pink/ red backgrounds- my thoughts in solidarity with all who were protesting the overturning of Roe vs Wade. Thinking of my recently departed mother (my beacon) and all women who fought hard for Women's rights that are now being stripped away.  

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  • Captivated
    Captivated

    Oil on canvas, 13" x 16" framed, 2024, Private Collection

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  • Passage to Beyond
    Passage to Beyond

    Oil on canvas, 36" x 36", 2024

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  • Floral Fete
    Floral Fete

    Floral Fete, Oil on panel, 26" x 26", 2024

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  • Enigmatic Paradise
    Enigmatic Paradise

    Enigmatic Paradise, Oil on panel, 26" x 26", 2023

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    • TRANSCEND Solo Exhibition: Gallery Blue Door March 20 - April 24, 2021

    Painting has always been my way to not only interpret my world, but also to transcend it. When in my studio and deeply immersed in the process of painting the chaos of our times falls away. These works, created mostly in 2020, were inspired by the natural surroundings on Hoopers Island, the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, and the Chesapeake Bay Region - places that provided tranquil sanctuaries throughout a turbulent year. Current events (Covid, frequent manmade and natural disasters, political upheavals, mass shootings) however, were ever present in my mind and heart as I worked each day. The daily emotional whiplash triggered by seemingly endless horrifying and unconscionable events informed this body of work, however, did not define it. The red palette in many of my works reflects anger, that I process through painting, and attempt to transcend.  Transcendence for me is a peaceful rebellion.

    • Transcend Solo Exhibition of oil paintings Gallery Blue Door - Site photo of front room
      "Transcend" Solo Exhibition of oil paintings Gallery Blue Door - Site photo of front room
    • Seductive Nightfall
      Seductive Nightfall

      Seductive Nightfall, Oil, bronze, gold, copper pigments on canvas, 2019, 24" x 24"

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    • Red Tar Bay 2
      Red Tar Bay 2

      Red Tar Bay 1, Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 20" x 20", 2020

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    • Wetlands-Twilight
      Wetlands-Twilight

      Wetlands- Twilight: Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 36" x 36", 2020, Selected for juried exhibition at MGM Grand at National Harbor and selected for American Landscapes at Circle Gallery in Annapolis. Seen in Vanity Fair U.K. Holiday 2020 "Hall of Frames" Special Section.

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    • Bittersweet Dawn
      Bittersweet Dawn

      Bittersweet Dawn, Oil, gold, bronze pigments on panel, 26" x 26", 2020. Received an "Honorable Mention" award at MFA Circle Gallery Members Exhibition 2022.

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    • Luminous Eventide 2
      Luminous Eventide 2

      Luminous Eventide 2, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 36", 2019, Selected for the national juried exhibition "9 for 19" at First Street Gallery in New York City (January 2020) and exhibited at Academy Art Museum in Easton.

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    • Sky Bliss
      Sky Bliss

      Sky Bliss (Private collection), Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas on Canvas, 36" x 36",2020. Received "Designers Choice Award" at Corporate Connections Exhibition at MGM Grand at National Harbor. Also exhibited at Academy Art Museum. 

    • Blushing Cirrus
      Blushing Cirrus

      Blushing Cirrus, Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 26" x 26". Selected for exhibition at MFA Curve Gallery.

    • Rainmaker
      Rainmaker
      Rainmaker: Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 20" x 20", 2020
    • Tempestuous Coast
      Tempestuous Coast

      Tempestuous Coast, Oil, gold, bronze pigments on canvas, 24" x 24", 2020  Featured in The Changing Chesapeake juried exhibition at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Artists were asked to reflect on climate change and the impact humans have on the environment.

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    • WHAT RESONATES Solo Exhibition: Gallery Blue Door June 29 - August 3, 2109

    Throughout my career as an artist I have been fascinated by what resonates from a place: what I feel while there, what I remember when I leave and what stays with me as time passes, and how to translate that through my art.  Sometimes, it is the overwhelming sensations of how a place looks visually- the colors, textures, patterns, the time of day, the quality of light. However, often it is not how a place looks specifically but- that undefinable quality that makes a place stay with you or resonate. What makes a place penetrate your soul, inhabit your mind, shape your spirit, change you?
                                                                                                                                                                                                         

    • Compelling Quietude
      Compelling Quietude
      Compelling Quietude, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24", 2019 (Private Collection)
    • Eventide 1
      Eventide 1
      Eventide 1, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24", 2017 (Private Collection)
    • Marsh Nocturne
      Marsh Nocturne
      Marsh Nocturne, Oil on Panel, 12" x 12", 2017 (Private Collection)
    • Serenity
      Serenity

      Serenity(private collection), Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24", 2019

    • Resplendence
      Resplendence
      Resplendence, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24" 2019 (Private Collection)
    • Eventide 4
      Eventide 4
      Eventide 4, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24",2017
    • Tar Bay
      Tar Bay
      Tar Bay, Oil on Panel, 12' x 12", 2019 (Private Collection)
    • Sky Break
      Sky Break
      Sky Break, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24", 2019 (Private Collection)
    • Angry Sky
      Angry Sky
      Angry Sky, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12", 2017
    • Fantasy Island
      Fantasy Island
      Fantasy Island, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12", 2018 (Private Collection)
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    • RECENT PAINTINGS Solo Exhibition: Monument Sotheby's International Realty Ruxton Gallery and Office November 10, 2022 - January 6, 2023

    This solo exhibition is a collection of oil paintings featuring water, sky, and land. All works were created in my studio on Hoopers Island. I work from my imagination only without refence material or initial sketches, as I prefer to allow the intuitive process and memories of places that stay with me to inspire works. Paintings in this exhibition range from framed miniature deeply hued nocturnes to minimal jewel toned twilights and sorbet colored skyscapes.  The fiery red palette in Red Tar Bay 1 was inspired by wildfires in California and Hawaii and imagining what it would be like and how I would feel if my beloved Hoopers Island was on fire. 

    • Red Tar Bay 1
      Red Tar Bay 1

      Red Tar Bay 1, Oil on canvas, 20" x 20", 2020  This painting was selected as "Jurors Choice" in the Marina to Mountain exhibition at The Alleghany Arts Council In Cumberland, Maryland. Inspired by the devastating wildfires in California and Hawaii and imagining the impact of a wildfire on my beloved Hoopers Island.

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    • Coral Marshlands (private collection)
      Coral Marshlands (private collection)

      Coral Marshlands (private collection), Oil on canvas, 12" x 16" framed, 2022

    • Sundrenched Mountains
      Sundrenched Mountains

      Sundrenched Mountains (Private Collection), Oil on canvas, 13" x 16" framed, 2022

    • Lush Scene
      Lush Scene

      Lush Scene, Oil, gold, bronze pigments on panel, 26" x 26", 2022

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    • Enchanted Island I
      Enchanted Island I

      Enchanted Island 1, oil on panel, 6.5" x 6.5", 2022

    • Enchanted Island 2 by Tracy Lambros Final_0.jpg
      Enchanted Island 2 by Tracy Lambros Final_0.jpg

      Enchanted Island 2 (Private Collection), Oil on panel, 6.5" x 6.5", 2022

    • Enchanted Island 3
      Enchanted Island 3

      Enchanted Island 3 (private collection), oil on panel, 6.5" x 6.5", 2022

    • Gallery Shot: Monument Sotheby's- Solo exhibition Tracy seated with miniature Imagine Series paintings in background
      Gallery Shot: Monument Sotheby's- Solo exhibition Tracy seated with miniature Imagine Series paintings in background
    • Gallery shots Solo exhibition by Tracy Lambros at Monument Sotheby's
      Gallery shots Solo exhibition by Tracy Lambros at Monument Sotheby's
    • Invitation
      Invitation
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    • PHOTOS AND PAINTINGS: Upcoming Solo Exhibition at Gallery Blue Door. January 25, 2025 - March 22, 2025

    Photos and Paintings is my first exhibition that combines two of my passions: photography and paintings. Each medium satisfies a different creative need for me. Photography allows the immediate gratification of spontaneously capturing a moment in time and composing that image on the spot. Simply put - what catches my eye and captures my imagination at that moment. Painting provides an improvisational experience where the work unfolds and evolves through mark making, discovering textures fortuitously, finding shapes organically, and creating unexpected palettes. The Dorchester Sky photos are taken in Dorchester County, Maryland- views of the Honga River, Tar Bay, the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, and the greater Chesapeake Bay region. All of my painting are from my imagination: evocations of land, sea, and sky filtered through memory and time, guided by an intuitive process. Climate change and rising sea levels are always forefront in my mind as 2024 was the first year that high tides flooded Hoopers Island so badly that it  prevented me from leaving the island on multiple occasions, as opposed to this occurring once a year in the past. There is a constant awareness and a melancholy or sadness of sorts that the island, the community, and the natural beauty that inspires my work will cease to exist within the not to distant future because the island will succumb to rising tides- as many others in the region have already.   

    • Dorchester Sky 1
      Dorchester Sky 1

      Dorchester Sky 1, Archival pigment print on fine art matte paper, limited edition of 10, 5" x 5" unframed, 14" x 14" framed

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    • Dorchester Sky 4
      Dorchester Sky 4

      Dorchester Sky 4, Archival pigment print on fine art matte paper, limited edition of 10, 5" x 5" unframed, 14" x 14" framed

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    • Dorchester Sky 8
      Dorchester Sky 8

      Dorchester Sky 8, Archival pigment print on fine art matte paper, limited edition of 10, 5" x 5" unframed, 14" x 14" framed

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    • Dorchester Sky 9
      Dorchester Sky 9

      Dorchester Sky 9, Archival pigment print on fine art matte paper, limited edition of 10, 5" x 5" unframed, 14" x 14" framed

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    • Dorchester Sky 2
      Dorchester Sky 2

      Dorchester Sky 2, Archival pigment print on fine art matte paper, limited edition of 10, 5" x 5" unframed, 14" x 14" framed

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    • Melancholy Twilight 1
      Melancholy Twilight 1

      Melancholy Twilight 1, Oil on canvas, 6" x 6", 2024

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    • Melancholy Twilight 3
      Melancholy Twilight 3

      Melancholy Twilight 3, Oil on canvas, 6" x 6", 2024

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    • Melancholy Twilight 2
      Melancholy Twilight 2

      Melancholy Twilight 2, Oil on canvas, 6" x 6", 2024

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    • Enticing Illumination
      Enticing Illumination

      Enticing Illumination, Oil on canvas, 8" x 8", 2024

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    • Late Night Rendezvous
      Late Night Rendezvous

      Late Night Rendezvous, Oil on canvas, 8" x 8", 2024

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    • Artwork on Site

    This is a selection of photos taken on site in various locations: museums, galleries, private collections, public spaces.  

    • Eventide 2 at Washington County Museum of Fine Art
      Eventide 2 at Washington County Museum of Fine Art

      Eventide 2, Oil on canvas, 24" x 24", 2019 on view with floral arrangement inspired by the painting at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition (Juror: Joan Bevelaqua), Hagerstown, Maryland. January 31 - April 4, 2021 

    • Luminous Eventide 1 at National Harbor Peterson Headquarter- Corporate Collections Juried Exhibition
      Luminous Eventide 1 at National Harbor Peterson Headquarter- Corporate Collections Juried Exhibition

      Luminous Eventide 2, Oil on canvas, 36" x 36", 2019. This oil painting won a purchase prize award at the Corporate Connections Juried Exhibition at Peterson Headquarters in National Harbor, Maryland. Juror: Bob Madden, Staff photographer for National Geographic Magazine. October 15 - December 1, 2020. 

    • Tempestuous Coast at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
      Tempestuous Coast at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

      Tempestuous Coast, Oil, gold and bronze pigments, 24" x 24", 2020. This work was selected for The Changing Chesapeake exhibition at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland March 1, 2023 - February 25, 2024. Curator: Jen Dolde, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions. Artists were asked to reflect on how climate change and the impact of humans shapes their Chesapeake Bay community. I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on the topic.

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    • Luminous Eventide 1, Luminous Eventide 2 on site at First Street Gallery in New York, NY
      Luminous Eventide 1, Luminous Eventide 2 on site at First Street Gallery in New York, NY

      Luminous Eventide 1 and Luminous Eventide 2, Oil, gold and bronze pigments, 36" x 36" each, 2019. Selected for the highly competitive national juried exhibition 9 for 19 at First Street Gallery, New York, NY. January 7 - 27, 2020. Juror: Ronnie Landfield, NY Artist

    • Red Kauai with floral arrangement inspired by the painting
      Red Kauai with floral arrangement inspired by the painting

      Red Kauai, Oil on canvas, 24" x 24", 2020. This painting selected by juror Carolyn Russo (Curator of Art, National Air and Space Museum) for exhibition in Beyond the Horizon: Explorations of Landscape at the Anne Marie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland. June 9 - August 27, 2023.

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    • Circle Gallery Site Shot: American Landscapes 2022 -Wetlands Twilight (Painting on left in pic), Oil on canvas, 36 x 36, 2020.
      Circle Gallery Site Shot: American Landscapes 2022 -Wetlands Twilight (Painting on left in pic), Oil on canvas, 36" x 36", 2020.

      Wetlands- Twilight selected by Juror Al Gury (Professor of Art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art) from 631 submissions for American Landscapes 2022 at Circle Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. September 2022.

    • When Darkness Falls Exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center; Eventide 3 and Eventide 4
      "When Darkness Falls" Exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center; Eventide 3 and Eventide 4

      Eventide 3 and Eventide 4, each oil on canvas, 24" x 24", 2017 selected by Juror Robin Strayer (Program and Exhibit Specialist) for national juried exhibition When Darkness Falls at Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Fine Arts Center, Dowell, Maryland. . 

    • Installation of six oil paintings at MICA
      Installation of six oil paintings at MICA

      Installation of six colorful abstract oil paintings at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

    • Installation at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Institute: Along the Canal (Oil on canvas)
      Installation at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Institute: Along the Canal (Oil on canvas)

      Painting donation in appreciation of kindness shown by doctors and nurses while caring for my father at the end of his life. 

    • Oil painting titled Tar Bay in Maryland private collection. Seen in photo to the right of Puppy vase by Jeff Koons
      Oil painting titled Tar Bay in Maryland private collection. Seen in photo to the right of Puppy vase by Jeff Koons

      Tar Bay, Oil on canvas, 12" x 12", 2019

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