Trace Meek

Panoramic view of some of my work in the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts, February 2026.

That’s a wrap! I rented a U-Haul van and took down my show today, to make way for the next artist to grace the ECA Gallery. I might have shed a tear or two. After loading up the van, I happily delivered a couple of big paintings to some wonderful people who are now collectors of my work. If you’d like some of my work in your home too, reach out—there’s plenty to choose from, and I need to make room in my small studio for my next body of work, which I’ll be showing at Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream the month of September, later this year. I’ve got to get crack-a-lackin’ on that—I plan to make a dozen paintings, and I’ve only just begun. They will be smaller, so I’m not worried. 😊 One of these days I will host a proper open studio event. Thank you, all of you who visited my show, or checked out my work on my website as it was progressing. Your friendship and support means a lot to me, and I’m thankful that you came out to view and consider my work. ❤️✨ ====================== (Why I can’t post all of this content as a complete post in Bluesky—but I can post it as alt text—is a mystery to me. Please pardon the workaround.)

Me on the last day of my show—photo by Pasqualina Azzarello.

Thank you, all of you who visited my show, or checked out my work on my website as it was progressing. Your friendship and support means a lot to me, and I’m thankful that you came out to view and consider my work. ❤️✨

Picture of a window covered in an intricate pattern of frost, with the photographer’s silhouetted reflection mixed in.

Lattice

Lost Town — Paintings by Trace Meek I’m having an art show, and you’re invited. I’ll be showing my work the entire month of February, 2026, at the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts. The gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday f...

I’m having an art show, and you’re invited. Reception: February 7th, 4–7 PM at the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Concert poster for Joey Pesce and friends.

Joey Pesce, Clark Goodpaster, and I will play and sing music at First Night Northampton. We have an 8:00 slot in the “Workroom” at the Noho Center for the Arts, at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton, Massachusetts. Admission buttons: www.firstnightnorthampton.org/buttons. Hope to see you there!

Five-person band fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitar player Ezra Furman, delivering a concert to an attentive audience at a packed nightclub.

Went to an amazing concert: Ezra Furman at the Sinclair in Cambridge, Mass. Left feeling hopeful and connected, despite the precariousness of our times.

A screenshot of Trace’s guitar effects chain, working in Logic Pro. Noise gate, compressor, Fine Classics Pedalboard, EQ, UAD Brigade Chorus, Chromaverb.

This is my current favorite guitar signal path, for what it’s worth. (From top right to bottom left. Not shown: noise gate at the beginning.) I’m mostly all “in the box” these days, on account of I love the sound of <<< STEREO GUITAR >>> and infinite diversity of sound.

Kayaking on the Connecticut River under a cloudy sky. Saw a couple of bald eagles and a blue heron.

Waterway

Sweet!

Interesting choices! I too have the TU-3 and love it. I tend to place reverb after delay, for my own stuff. What amp are you running this into?

Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog.

Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, detail of silhouetted island.

Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, foreground beach.

Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, tree and beach in foreground.

Foggy notion

Four old trees (one of which is no longer living) thoughtfully planted in a line by people of an earlier generation for the benefit of people they would never know. Ashfield, Massachusetts.

Trees in a row, a favorite thing

Truly, when’s the next one? 🥰✨

Yay! Congrats!!

A temporarily cleared path in an autumn wood. Soon there will be more sticks and leaves. For now, there is a clear path for jogging and contemplative walking

Morning path

Rebecca, back-lit, standing in front of the Ashfield Town Hall in Ashfield, Massachusetts, where we went to a most fun square dance.

Squared up

I feel like that’s what has happened to Instagram.

An inadvertent visual collaboration between my camera and the computer screen I was projecting it to.

Thanks for these! I’ve been enjoying the playlist, and discovering some new-to-me music.

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, as seen from Beverly Street in Boston, Mass. Late afternoon.

The Custom House Tower (built 1837–1847) seen in the distance, from Beverly Street in Boston.

Rebecca enjoying a slice of pizza at Regina Pizzeria in Boston’s North End.

Photo of me by Rebecca, while touring Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Wind Technology Testing Center, in Charlestown, Mass.

Scenes from Boston

I use and recommend Artmill (artmill.com), based in Chicago. Specifically, their flush mount product. Good luck.

Thanks!

Safe travels! Enjoy.

Kayaker on river at night with lights on the far shore, a shooting star, a rising moon, and the east end of the Holyoke range in the distance.

A friend and I went out on an evening kayaking expedition on the Connecticut River, to see the moon rise over the water. We got a bonus shooting star out of the adventure. He saw it in real-time. I discovered it later, while editing my photos.

In fact, Murmur would make it into my top four “desert island” albums by any band:
1.) Murmur
2.) Velvet Undrground: Velvet Underground
3.) Joni Mitchell: Blue
4.) My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

I side with Mike for the first two.
1.) Murmur
2.) Automatic For The People
3.) Reckoning

Correct. 🥰

✨ Something about exposed tape like that seems so fragile and tenuous, so potentially fraying, if you will. 😉

Benson Amps Presents - Marcus Fischer Tape Loop Performance YouTube video by Benson Amps

Fascinating and soothing electric guitar + tape loop performance by Portland, Oregon-based Marcus Fischer. Also love the raw industrial ambience of the space.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve queued it up!

30-minute drawing, charcoal and pastel

15-second poses, charcoal

15-minute pose, charcoal

15-minute pose, charcoal and pastel

Life drawing at the Guilded Brick
Holyoke, Massachusetts