Artist Bio:
Born on federal property in North Carolina, Eric Thayer has lived in multiple states over his lifetime; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, New York and several others. This itinerant lifestyle has exposed him to a broad swath of social and cultural systems. He is curious about how such systems manifest themselves in objects, behaviors and spaces, and how this synthesis structures meanings for individuals and communities. He prefers tactics of intervention, noisemaking and appropriation in response to observations of power, rituals and so-called social norms.
His creative oeuvre is diverse, moving among performance, ceramics, sculpture, digital media and beyond. He is an alumni of the University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts (OH), and of the Kathrine McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston (TX). He has studied multiple times at Penland School of Craft (NC), and was recently granted a Winter Residency at the Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft (NC),
Outside of the studio, Eric can be found hiking, biking, kayaking, and generally enjoying the outdoors. He currently lives in the Dallas area, where he continues to respond to the behaviors and systems he encounters.
Exhibition Details:
Go; Gone explores the pandemic's impact on the systems that frame our existence. The rapid disruption of these systems altered the trajectory of millions of lives. In response, these works of sculpture, photocollage and video attempt to make sense of accumulation, displacement and the liminal space between stability and collapse..