Tracy Abbott Szatan

Tracy is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, photography, glass and installation to deconstruct the materials, mechanisms and histories of imagemaking, and to activate the shifting edges of the perceptible. Her recent film, Braided Sand, considers the relationship of lenses and optical technologies to earth materials in order to foreground the natural and human-made processes of transformation that are the bases of photography and other imaging technologies, and to highlight human embeddedness in deep time. Szatan’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally and most recently, she was a 2025 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.

At Woodward, she will be working on Paravision, a film about technologies that reduce visual information to invite altered forms of perception.