Black Fowl Reflection, 2008, this piece consists of a bird made from black construction paper that stands over a record player spinning one of my records.  The bird is wired up with electronics.  It moves, pecking and scratching at the record, “playing” the record with it’s beak, in which, a record stylus is concealed.  Exhibited at Looking Back: The White Columns Annual selected by Jay Sanders.

photo by Ron Amstutz

photo by Jay Sanders

Performance, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, 2008, mixed media.

photo by Haeyung Thayer

Collaborative Performance, Amolvacy with Tom Thayer, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY, 2008

The band, Amolvacy, performing improvised music accompanied by an animated video by Tom Thayer, 40 min.

Sketchbook 2003-2007, Click here to see a recent sketchbook.

Still from Tom Thayer’s Scenographic Play, a performance for Incohative Listening + Centerless Portrayal, an immersive night of four-hour long performances organized by Keith Connolly and Jay Sanders for the Knight’s Move performance program, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, 2010.  Cardboard, string, wire, electronics, animation, video manipulation and live music, dimensions vary.

Stills from animated-puppet, music video for the No-Neck Blues Band’s song Ialas Saladiw, from thier record Clomein, 2009.

Puppet, 2009, mixed media, 58x14x3”

Animation Cell (Candied Owls), 2009, collaged paper, 12x18".

Untitled, mixed media, 1974-2010, 11.5x9”.

Witchy Toy Ride, 2008, LP of sound art playing on altered toy record player with hand-made slide-stick images of collaged paper. Used as performance object at White Columns and SculptureCenter, 15x14x11".

Magnetic Vista, 2010, animation, sound, electronics, tape cassette player, corrugated cardboard, crayon, masking tape, string and wire, installed at SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, dimensions variable.

Congregation, 2010, corrugated cardboard, crayon, masking tape, string and wire, installed at SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, dimensions variable.

Crystal Staircase (two views of sculpture), 2009, mixed media, 79x9x16"

Poppets, 2010, Installation of puppets and fiber-painting backdrop, mixed media, dimensions vary. 

Tom Thayer/Margo Thayer, Witch Mountain, 1974-2010, mixed media, 10x12”.

Purple Spit, (print with drawing from animation still), 2008, mixed media, 9x11”.

Tunnel Jerk, 2010, animation and sound, 05:56.

This is another hand-drawn and collaged stop-motion animation I made to accompany a piece of my music.  Often shown as an object, playing looped on an analog television set.

Old Smelly Haircut, 2008, animation and sound, 03:14.

This is a hand-drawn and collaged stop-motion animation I made to accompany a piece of my music.  Often shown as an object, playing looped on an analog television set.

Chroma Prints from animation stills, 2007, Chroma Prints face mounted to clear acrylic, mounted to Sintra, each 35x51”.