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SELECTED WORKS BY Tom Thayer

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Tom Thayer
Congregation

2010

Corrugated cardboard, crayon, masking tape, string, and wire

Dimensions variable
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Tom Thayer
Nature Scene

2011

Mixed media

182.9 x 228.6 cm
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Tom Thayer
Crossing the Methane River

2012

Paint, ink, pigments, graphite, crayon, collage on cardboard, wire, string, wood, felt, cloth

156.2 x 123.2 x 6.4 cm
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Tom Thayer
Callow Air's Veil

2012

Paint, ink, pigments, crayon, graphite, sewing, felt, wire, string, cardboard, monk's cloth

190.5 x 122.2 x 14.6 cm
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Tom Thayer
Bough Geometry

2012

Paint, ink, pigments, crayon, graphite on cardboard, wire, string, wood, tape

53.3 x 86.4 x 45.7 cm
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Tom Thayer
Stillness

2012

Paint, ink, pigments, crayon, graphite and sewing on felt and monk's cloth

135 x 172 x 4 cm

ARTICLES

Tom Thayer: Scenographic Play
January 2011, by Roberta Smith, The New York Times

His New York solo debut at Tracy Williams is dominated by the spindly folded-paper birds suggestive of failed origami that are something of a Thayer hallmark; they appear as puppet-sculptures, attached to painted surfaces and perched in and around a large paper tree in “Nature Scene,” a wall piece. They also mingle with other animals and the occasional human form in the lo-fi stop-action animation titled “Phantasmagoria,” which plays on a small, ancient monitor and is accompanied, in part, by a stuck record.
Mr. Thayer’s art is ostentatiously low-tech, with all his objects doing double duty as animation prop or puppet. Preciousness is a constant threat, and so is obscurity, but Mr. Thayer’s ability to transform and amplify his modest artworks as they travel from one medium to another is little short of magical. Thus a small collage of a television set and a pair of hands holding a remote, on view at Williams, also appears, much enlarged, luridly colored and activated, in a video projection nearby. The video figures in and partly records two performances Mr. Thayer orchestrated in the gallery the week his show opened.
If the Williams show has the feeling of a pleasantly deranged studio visit, things are a little more focused at the Derek Eller Gallery (615 West 27th Street), where 11 collage-drawings made and revised by Mr. Thayer over the last five years are on view. Featuring more of the cut and folded figures, animals and birds, and wonderful drawn passages, they appear at Eller in a satisfying face-off with the sliced-and-spliced photographs of Adam Marnie (through Feb. 5). All have been used in Mr. Thayer’s animations and performance animations, including “Phantasmagoria” in the Williams show and in his collaborations with Dave Miko, on view in “Dave Miko and Tom Thayer: New World Pig” at the Kitchen

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Source:nytimes.com