Donna Tracy

Who is Donna Tracy?

Donna Tracy is a visual effects artist whose work on numerous feature films over more than 25 years includes Star Wars and Spider-Man. She deflty moved from traditional film, animation and visual effects to the digital production process in an ever shifting and fickle industry. She applies this deftness to her installation artwork. A fine example is, "Cloudwoman", shown at the old Los Angeles Jail in 1998. It was a collaborative work with Jael Lehmann and Ann Monn that gave voice to Olive Oatman who became Cloudwoman. Another work of interest is a digital print series she created entitled, "Virtual Species or Digital Waste", that was developed out of small discarded and unused scraps of texture patches salvaged from the digital dustbins of the digital film making process. This discarded digital trash is called "digitritus,". She likens it to peeling paint or bark that inspires you to create something else out of it. She has presented, written and published about copyright issues in regards to this work. Her masters in art studies were at the California Institute of the Arts in the Art Program.