About This Image

Signed and dated to lower right 'Nagatani/Tracey 1984'.

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist; The Polaroid Collection.

Andrée Tracey graduated from the University of Iowa as a painting major and later studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. She has been a professional artist her entire life, working in a wide range of media including painting, collage and photography. Her artwork has been utilized for book covers, magazines, stationary and fabrics. She is the recipient of various national grants and fellowships such as an NEA in Painting and numerous Polaroid Photography Fellowships. 


Tracey's paintings and collage work have been widely collected and exhibited, and her illustration work has been utilized by advertising clients as well as corporate groups and private individuals. Besides the Polaroid Collection, her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography. the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Tokyo Museum, the French Bibliotheque National, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, the St. Louis Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art, among others.

Tracey has won the McKnight Photography Fellowship and has been a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship Finalist.

Patrick Nagatani (August 19, 1945–October 27, 2017) was born in Chicago and raised and educated in Los Angeles where he worked as a distinguished teacher and artist before moving to Albuquerque in 1987 to teach at the University of New Mexico. Patrick was a celebrated educator, both at Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles and at the University of New Mexico. Like his mentor and professor Robert Heinecken at UCLA, Patrick’s influence on a younger generation of artists is notable.

As an artist, Nagatani's works have been exhibited internationally and have been featured in numerous publications and films.

His pioneering use of narrative tableau photography began in the 1980s. Invited to use the 20x24 in. Polaroid and collaborating with the painter Andrée Tracey, they planned out the sets, painted back drops, created the models, photographed scenes or people and used their pictures as props to create tableaus for the camera “to see” (1983-1989). In these works, emphasis was on the apocalyptic moment as life begins to fly apart. Here Nagatani was not only a creator but also the director.

Nagatani died on October 27, 2017, at his home in Albuquerque.

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