
Feature Story: Fine Art on City Streets with Tracy Silva Barbosa
I spoke with Tracy at length recently. She told me that she always had difficulty appreciating landscape painting. Throughout her studies at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where she studied glass sculpture, she was attracted more to contemporary abstract art. She later moved to San Francisco and fell in love with Asian art. “It’s amazing how they take the idea of a landscape and bring it to an abstract realm,” Tracy said. “I wanted to take it to a more American pl