Graphic Intervention 16 Nico Tracey There's a stillness to the

There's a stillness to the scene

The composition balances stillness and atmosphere: soft gradients of sky

Painted as part of the controversial Vienna Faculty series

yet charged with psychological suggestion

graphic colour areas and unwavering outline place this work at the intersection of classical ukiyo-e and a proto-modernist visual economy that influenced Western art for generations

Graphic Intervention 16 Nico Tracey There's a stillness to theGraphic Intervention 16 is among the more compositionally complex works in Nico Tracey's series planes of color and photographic matter stack and overlap in a way that demands a second and third look. Tracey's instinct for visual rhythm is evident in how disparate elements find an uneasy equilibrium, held in place by tightly controlled tonal contrast. The portrait orientation channels a strong vertical flow, while the interplay of organic and