Gail Thacker

Gail Thacker is a visual artist most known for her unique use of type 665 Polaroid positive/negative film in which her subjects—friends, lovers, the city—become intertwined with the process and chemistry of her photos. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts and has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. She has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Spain; Daniel Cooney Fine Arts, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Clamp Art and Grey Art Gallery in New York, and others. Her work is included in numerous collections, including the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), CGAC (Spain), The New York Public Library, and The Polaroid Collection (Massachusetts). Publications include The Polaroid Book (Taschen), Mark Dirt (Paper Chase Press), Tabboo! The Art of Stephen Tashjian (Damiani), There Was A Sense of Family; The Friends of Mark Morrisroe (Moderne Kunst Nürnberg) and Frontiers Journal of Women Studies (University of Nebraska Press).

Photography

Thacker's Polaroid photography has been published and exhibited internationally, at museums and galleries including Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago, Spain; and the Safety Gallery,[1][2] the June Bateman Gallery,[3][4] Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Clamp Art[2][4] and Participant, Inc. in New York. Her Polaroid work is included in such collections as The Polaroid Collection (Somerville, Massachusetts), FotoMuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland), CGAC (Santiago, Spain), the Fisher Collection (Florida) and the New York Public Library and is featured in publications such as, The Polaroid Book (Taschen), Familiar Feelings (on the Boston Group), There was a Sense of Family: The Friends of Mark Morrisroe (Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg), Mark Dirt (Paper Chase Press), Tabboo! The Art of Stephen Tashjian (Distributed Art Publishers), along with articles in such newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Press, The New Yorker, Providence Town Magazine and The Village Voice, and a soon to be released book on her Polaroid art which will include essays by Eileen Myles and Manuel Segade in a bilingual Spanish and English edition.

ArtNet

ClampArt

June Bateman Fine Art

  • Enlarged Polaroids, manipulated process [3]

Landscapes

Portraits

Boston

Theatre

In 2005, Thacker took over the helm of the Gene Frankel Theatre, since which her work has documented the memory of the artistic community at the Gene Frankel Theatre. She has worked with artist such as Stephen Tashjian, Holly Woodlawn, Sur Rodney Sur and Arleen Schloss, and Chi Chi Valenti keeping a sense of underground art and performance art alive in New York City.

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