Gary Traczyk was born in 1969 on an Air Force base in Homestead, Florida to Polish-Italian and Vietnamese American parents. When Traczyk was seven, his father’s military career required that his family relocate to northern Italy. The artist attributes his early interest in the arts to the five years he spent there, much of which was filled with wide-eyed exploration of world-renowned Venetian museums. Gary Traczyck’s fine art education includes acceptance to the highly-selective New World Conservatory (now New World School of the Arts) in Miami, Florida; a Renaissance art study program in Florence, Italy through Florida State University (FSU); and apprenticeships with veteran sculptors. Long fascinated by the work of George Rickey, Alexander Calder and Jose De Rivera, Traczyk immediately took to stainless steel as a medium.