Curriculum Vitae

Education

The San Francisco Art Institute, CA BFA Painting 1996
The Pilchuck School, Seattle, WA Summer Program 1994
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI BA Literature 1993
The University of Syracuse, Florence, Italy Foreign Exchange 1992

Solo Exhibitions

Triptych, Act I: Creatrix with Red Poppies, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
Making No Making, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008
Viriditas, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA 2007
Red Music Blue Morning, American Artisan, Nashville, TN 2006
Anthem, Boathouse Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002
Introductions, (2 person show) Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000
Pura Vida, Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1996

Installation / Performance

Rainbow Tara: Color Coded, The National Equality March, Capitol West Lawn, Washington D.C., 2009
Beyond Movement Moving Beyond, The Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 2008
Chaos Theory, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007
When Web covers Earth, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA 2007
Trilateral Pyramid, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert 2007
Revolution Revelation, Gen Art, Ignite!, San Francisco, CA 2006
Homage to the 21 Taras, The San Francisco Museum of Modern, Sessions, San Francisco, CA 2006
G, fulcrumProjects, Marin County, CA 2006
Forest Alchemy, fulcrumProjects, Marin County, CA 2006
Homage to the 21 Taras CounterPULSE, San Francisco, CA 2005
Flags, fulcrumProjects, Marin County, CA 2005
Supernatural, Edo Space, San Francisco, CA 2000

Selected Exhibitions

The Right of Return (Bobcat Ballet Act II) SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 2010
Process, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007
Forest Alchemy, fulcrumProjects, Marin County, CA 2006
IGNITE!, Gen Art, Ignite!, San Francisco, CA 2006
Visual Aid Auction, Toomey- Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002
Couture for the Cure, Toomey- Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999
At Mother's Knees, Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA 1999
Icons of the Mind, Museum of Arts Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1998
Art for the Empowerment of Women, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1998
A Spoonful of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 1998
Eighth National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY 1997
International Exhibition of Women's Art, SOHO 20, New York, NY 1997
ANA 26, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MO 1997
Gallery 3, Gallery 3, San Francisco, CA 1997
Fifth Vague Art Exhibition, Eleven East Ashland, Phoenix, AZ 1996
SFAI Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 1996
Spring Show, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1996

Insertions

Altars to the Mother

Series of site-specific, time-based earth works created in natural habitats using only found materials including sand, twigs, algae, moss, coral, flowers, shells, seeds, nuts, leaves, plants, water. Installation sites include California, Florida, Hawaii, Mexico, Virgin Island, Thailand, 2003 to present.

Urban Odes

Series of graffiti and poster art installations. Materials include oil paint, silkscreen, spray paint, photographs and wheat paste. Installation sites include California and New York, 2002-present.

Site Specific and Curatorial Projects

Rainbow Tara: Color Coded

Rainbow Tara: Color Coded is site-specific, interactive live art performed at the National Equality March in Washington DC, October 11, 2009 in support of full equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans. Concept, visual art, artistic direction by Tracy Ginsberg; Choreography by Javier Cordoba and Oscar Trujillo, Color Coded by Ed and Linda Calhoun; Audio Technical by Theodore Lillie.

Beyond Movement Moving Beyond

Site-specific installation and performance for Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, 2008. Interactive live art includes installation, performance, choreography, costumes and body painting; visual artist and designer for correlating piece "Letting Go of the One I Used to be" by Javier Cordoba, Rirey-Woodbury alumni.

Making No Making

Site-specific installation for Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008.
Interactive exhibition plays music on the street and video projections in storefront windows, inviting visitors to write and draw on gallery walls. A Making No Making ritual was performed on the Summer Solstice.

Viriditas

An indoor/outdoor web and music composed by Hildegard of Bingen leads the viewer down the gallery stairs and into the site-specific installation. Viriditas opened on Earth Water Day 2007.

Forest Alchemy

Site-specific exhibition features sculpture, installation, performance and video by Bay Area artists Tommy Becker, Leo Bersamina, Bruce Chaban, Tracy Ginsberg, Theodore Lillie, Terry Mason, Nellie King Solomon and Oscar Trujillo. Works are permanent, temporary and time based. Viewers see the art by hiking a mile and a half loop trail through the woods; painting, drawing and photography are exhibited in the breezeway gallery. Forest Alchemy opened for one month, with private tours and artists panel discussions held for SFMOMA Contemporaries and Gen Art Collectors Circle.

Honors and Awards

  • Viridian Artists Inc. Juror: Thelma Golden
  • SOHO 20 Juror: Claire Belle
  • ANA 26 Juror: Jane Quick-to-See Smith
  • San Francisco Art Commission Cultural Equity Grant, 1997, SEEPP with Jefferson Adams
  • Bank of America Culture and the Arts Grant, 1997, SEEPP with Jefferson Adams

Bibliography

Experience

Fulcrum Projects: Founder and Creative Director www.fulcrumprojects.org
Fulcrum Projects is an interdisciplinary live art company creating interactive, site-specific exhibitions. Founded in San Francisco in 2002, fulcrumProjects is now headquartered in Marin County, California in a thirty acre project space.

The Business of Being Born: film produced by Ricki Lake, directed by Abby Epstein: Original art and design for film's product, the Moby Wrap.

ReadyMade Magazine: Contributing Artist and Writer for Issues 22 and 23. Projects include print making techniques and projects, deck design and building project, and feature story on fulcrumProjects. 2006

Tracy Ginsberg Design: Tree House Design and Construction; Home Renovation; Landscape Design; Solar Energy systems; Interior Design and Commissions. Home Décor: Custom Shoji doors and screens, functional art/furniture, textile design, pillows, interior and architectural design. Custom clothing for wedding, formal, evening, costumes. T-shirts- Limited edition T-shirts silk-screened with original drawings, women/men/children.

Illustration: Poster art for CounterPULSE, SF 2006

Label Painting for "He'Brew, the Chosen Beer," label featured in Newsweek, LA Times, Fortune, New York Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Jerusalem Report, Playboy, 2003.

Co-Writer: Illustrator of children's book, Beezie Warthog, 2001.

Co-Director: SEEPP, Self Exploration and Expression through Painting and Poetry. After, school art program for teens at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in the Western Addition. Project with Jefferson Adams. Funded with grants from the San Francisco Art Commission and the Bank of America Culture and the Arts. 1997

Art Teacher: The Project School, Hayward CA 1997, Marin Jewish Community
Center- in house mural 1997, New Traditions Elementary School- after school art program sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute where students created a 70 foot mobile and an interactive, musical, art installation for their school and families.

Artist Assistant: Thurman Statom, Painting and Installation at William Travers Gallery in Seattle, WA. 1994

Arts Writer/Graphic Illustrator: The Michigan Daily; Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1992-93