ERIC THAYER
Born on federal property, Eric Thayer has lived in multiple states over his lifetime; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, New York and several others. This itinerant lifestyle has revealed myriad social customs related to different sites. He is curious about how such structures of power, belief, exchange and social norms manifest in objects, behaviors and spaces, and how this synthesis frames meanings for individuals and communities. He prefers tactics of intervention, noisemaking and appropriation, and often positions his body in relation to these structures. Sometimes, he absorbs onlookers into the process of creation. Once incorporated, audience members become co-authors of the work, transcending the boundary between producers and consumers of art and culture.
His creative oeuvre is diverse, bridging the divides (real or constructed) among performance, ceramics, sculpture, digital media, sound and beyond. He has recently exhibited at the Experimental Action International Performance Art Festival in Houston, Texas; The Body: An International Exhibition and Documentary at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea; and the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts.
He is an alumni of the University of Toledo (BFA, BA) Center for Visual Arts, and of the Kathrine McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston (MFA). He currently teaches for Dallas College, sharing his enthusiasm for experimentation and creation with his students.
JAMES ERIC THAYER JR.
Born on federal property, Eric Thayer has lived in multiple states over his lifetime; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, New York and several others. This itinerant lifestyle has revealed myriad social customs related to different sites. He is curious about how such structures of power, belief, exchange and social norms manifest in objects, behaviors and spaces, and how this synthesis frames meanings for individuals and communities. He prefers tactics of intervention, noisemaking and appropriation, and often positions his body in relation to these structures. Sometimes, he absorbs onlookers into the process of creation. Once incorporated, audience members become co-authors of the work, transcending the boundary between producers and consumers of art and culture.
His creative oeuvre is diverse, bridging the divides (real or constructed) among performance, ceramics, sculpture, digital media, sound and beyond. He has recently exhibited at the Experimental Action International Performance Art Festival in Houston, Texas; The Body: An International Exhibition and Documentary at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea; and the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts.
He is an alumni of the University of Toledo (BFA, BA) Center for Visual Arts, and of the Kathrine McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston (MFA). He currently teaches for Dallas College, sharing his enthusiasm for experimentation and creation with his students.
JAMES ERIC THAYER JR.
Born on federal property, Eric Thayer has lived in multiple states over his lifetime; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, New York and several others. This itinerant lifestyle has revealed myriad social customs related to different sites. He is curious about how such structures of power, belief, exchange and social norms manifest in objects, behaviors and spaces, and how this synthesis frames meanings for individuals and communities. He prefers tactics of intervention, noisemaking and appropriation, and often positions his body in relation to these structures. Sometimes, he absorbs onlookers into the process of creation. Once incorporated, audience members become co-authors of the work, transcending the boundary between producers and consumers of art and culture.
His creative oeuvre is diverse, bridging the divides (real or constructed) among performance, ceramics, sculpture, digital media, sound and beyond. He has recently exhibited at the Experimental Action International Performance Art Festival in Houston, Texas; The Body: An International Exhibition and Documentary at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea; and the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts.
He is an alumni of the University of Toledo (BFA, BA) Center for Visual Arts, and of the Kathrine McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston (MFA). He currently teaches for Dallas College, sharing his enthusiasm for experimentation and creation with his students.