News Jan 2009
News Feb 2010
Dave Miko in the Company of Friends, Lichen Locked Lagerstätte La Brea
Mitchel Algus Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York, NY
February 19 through March 20
I have the honor of being one of the “friends” in this highly unique show of Miko’s artwork.
News Mar 2010
“Curator’s Pick” on P.S.1 MoMA’s new web initiative offering virtual presentations of greater New York area artists’ studios
Click here to “visit” me.
News Apr 2010
My work is included in the SculptureCenter survey show, Knight’s Move, curated by Fionn Meade. Knight’s Move will be on view May 3rd - July 26th with an opening reception on Sunday May 2nd, 2010 from 5-7pm.
Additionally, I’’m doing a performance for the Knight’s Move Performance Program on Thursday, June 3, 8pm-Midnight. This program was organized by Keith Connolly and Jay Sanders in collaboration with Fionn Meade.
Click here for the full press release.
News Jun 2010
Incohative Listening + Centerless Portrayal
Sculpture Center Performance
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
An immersive evening of music and live performance features Tom Thayer's eccentric combination of sound, puppetry, and animation; Yuji Agematsu's durational exploration of New York City via slide projection and field recordings; and solo performances by Circuit Des Yeux (Haley Fohr), Tom Kovachevich, and Mother Earth (Kyle Clyde and Dylan Hay) throughout the building and courtyard.
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News May 2010
Magnetic Vista, 2010. Animation, corrugated cardboard, masking tape, crayon, string, wire, electronics and sound.
Installation images of some of my work in the SculptureCenter survey show, Knight’s Move. On view May 3rd - July 26th.
News Jul 2010
Punctuation Programme, Jessica Mallock & Tom Thayer
curated by Matt Williams, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK
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News Aug 2010
Zone Zero
PORT D’OR, Brooklyn, NY
Collaborating artists, Keith Connolly and Tom Thayer, debut THE SPANIARD + THE HUDSON EEL at Port D’Or, Brooklyn, NY. “An interactive storyboard prototype of a text based video adventure a la ZORK, with a touch of Vladimir + Estragon.”
News Oct 2010
Sound and video performance by Keith Connolly and Tom Thayer w/ John Jines on B&W Sony and Linhoff, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
News Nov 2010
Betwixt & Between, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT, Nov 11, 2010 - Jan 22, 2011
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International Project Space, Birmingham, UK, presents a series of moving-image exhibitions by invited curators.
Jay Sanders’ ITWAN, (10 – 20 November) is a film document of an evening performance event at New York’s Sculpture Center collectively titled Inchoative Listening & Centerless Portrayal, featuring artists and musicians including Yuji Agematsu, Mother Earth, Tom Kovachevich, Tom Thayer and Circuit Des Yeux, sound: Llilw Gray, camera: John Jines, and editing by Keith Connolly, Jay Sanders and Tom Thayer.
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My artwork is included on the Manhattan side of Paddy Johnson’s LP project, The Sound of Art. The LP is “a fragmented sound document of the last five years of art in the city” and it’s release celebrates five years of Johnson’s legendary art-world blog, Art Fag City. Wonderful artists are involved. There’s a John Fahey piece, Erick Zuenskes’ piece from Dave Miko’s A Lettuce Slaughter in the Woods, and a fundraising, limited-edition print made in response to the LP by Mike Smith.
Release party November 18th, 7PM to 3AM, Santos Party House, New York, NY.
“THE SOUND OF ART
COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS
MANHATTAN
Andre Avelas (Abrons Art Center), Petra Cortright (Internet), Jennie C. Jones, (Sikemma Jenkins) Moyra Davey, (Orchard47) Elias Hansen (Maccarone), Ted Riederer (Marianne Boesky), Cliff Evans (Luxe Gallery), LoVid, (LMCC), Marcin Ramocki (MOMA), Shannon Plumb (Sarah Melzer Gallery), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, (Luhring Augustine), John Fahey (AVA), Miriam Stern (Yeshiva University), Jennifer Schmidt (Elizabeth Foundation Project Space), Carolina A. Miranda (Armory show), Tyler Jacobsen and Chris Anderson (Canada), Tom Thayer (White Columns), Luke Murphy (Canada), Joel Holmberg (New Museum), Lawrence Weiner (Whitney Museum), Laura Parnes, (Participant Inc), Brainstormers (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center).
BROOKLYN
Aron Namenwirth (artMovingProjects), Damien Catera (Hogar Collection), Andy Graydon (LMAK Projects), Sonny Smith (Cinders Gallery), Paul Slocum (artMovingProjects), Heidi Neubauer-Winterburn (Louis V. E.S.P.), Eric Laska (Diapason), Elena Wen (AIR Gallery), Joe McKay (Vertexlist), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (Issue Project Room), Peter Dobill (English Kills), Douglas Henderson (Pierogi), Robert McNeill (MonkeyTown), Erick Zuenskes (Real Fine Arts), Wayne Hodge (Fivemyles), Ranjit Bhatnagar and Nick Yulman (Coney Island Museum), Lara Kohl (PS 1), Mike Koller and MTAA (McCarren Park).
click here for more info.
News Dec 2010
Everything is pink this year at Doyers Holiday Shop..... even the air seems pink! It is the one place you will be able to buy TT02, the second Cardboard Mirror release. Fifteen minutes of music (made with a 1976 Micromoog Pink Noise circuit as the sound source) accompanied by abstract, moving, shape compositions. Like hand-making a screen saver from paper, electricity and spit.
News Jan 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Kitchen presents David Miko and Tom Thayer exhibition
New World Pig January 7—March 5
New York, NY, Jan 7, 2011—The Kitchen presents New World Pig, a dual exhibition premiering the collaborative works of New York-based artists David Miko and Tom Thayer. The show, curated by Matthew Lyons, features Miko’s paintings and Thayer’s stop-motion animation videos. The exhibition will be on view January 7—March 5, 2010. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. There will be an opening reception for the exhibition at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Friday, January 7 from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Miko and Thayer worked separately but in tandem to create New World Pig, an evocative, immersive installation of paintings and video. The artists juxtaposed the diverse vocabulary of Miko’s paintings (done in various combinations of oil, enamel, lacquer, ink, and acrylic on aluminum) with Thayer’s supersaturated colors and lo-fi image quality, which are derived from his use of antiquated VHS video technology along with current at-home, consumer-grade digital tools. In this exhibition, Miko’s paintings act as screens for Thayer’s projected animations.
At the heart of the exhibition is the strange phenomenon created by the combining and transforming of materials that result in glowing colors and shapes which shimmer and murmur to gradually reveal a murky folk tale. The singular, hybrid visual displays of painted and moving images created by Miko and Thayer parallels the theme of transformation that is central to the narrative of New World Pig.
Funding Credits
This exhibition is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the VisualArts, Dedalus Foundation Inc., and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
News Apr 2011
I will be setting the mood while you buy your tickets and have your first drink at the amazing music festival, NUMINA lente. (info here)
April 14th at 7pm sharp to catch this pre-show, lobby performance.
I will be participating in the spring benefit for SculptureCenter, Long island City, NY.
It’s an unconventional auction on April 13th, with previews on April 11th and 12th. (info here)
Interview in THE L MAGAZINE.
Very flattered that Paddy Johnson and Benjamin Sutton thought of my work for this article and interview.
News Oct 2011
I will be performing at the Triple Canopy benefit on October 28th. (info here)
News Nov 2011
I have a work in The Kitchen Benefit Art Auction (info here)
I have a work in The New Yorker Passport to the Arts Art Auction (info here)
Pleased to announce I have work in “The End”, curated by Michael Bühler-Rose and John Connelly. At Vogt Gallery, 508 - 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY (info here)
News Jan 2012
The continuing saga of THE SPANIARD + THE HUDSON EEL
a collaborative piece of interactive fiction and video (info here)
News Mar 2012
I am very flattered and honored to be included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. This year’s Biennial was co-curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. (info here)
“Since its introduction in 1932, the Whitney Biennial—the Museum's signature exhibition and a highly anticipated event in the art world—has charted new developments in contemporary art. Inaugurated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932, these biennial exhibitions have demonstrated the museum's commitment to supporting the development of 20th- and 21st-century American art.”
The 2012 Whiteny Biennial catalogue is available for pre-order. (here) It is an exciting and unusual catalog “devoted to original contributions from each of the participating artists, in a unique effort to provide a more experiential understanding of the exhibition.” Kind of like an exhibition unto itself.
The book is paperback, 320 pages, edited by Sussman and Sanders, and published by by Yale University Press.
Pleased to announce a collage of mine in the collection of the The Museum of Fine Arts Houston will be on view, along with the animation it was generated from, as a part of their exhibition, Utopia/Dystopia (link here)
“Utopia/Dystopia explores the ways that artists use photography to project a political, social, or cultural state of utopia or dystopia. Ranging in date from the late 19th century to the present, these photos, photocollages, photomontages, and moving images—along with photographs of a constructed space or sculptures that incorporate a photograph—have allowed artists to experiment with social, political, and urban construction and imagination.
The exhibition draws on the collections of the MFAH and the Menil Collection in Houston; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and private collectors. Among the many artists represented are Herbert Bayer, Matthew Buckingham, Richard Hawkins, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, Esaki Reiji, and Tom Thayer.”
An illustrated catalogue, published by the MFAH and distributed by Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition.
Softcover. 124 pages, Yasufumi Nakamori, with Graham Bader (available here)
© Tom Thayer 2007