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March 22, 2018
“Metamemesis” screening in 8 different countries for Trivu’s International Water Project on March 22, 2018, International Water DayRead about “Metamemesis”: Metamemesis Read about the event by Trivu.org: trivu.org/water
November 18, 2017
Curated show at Studio 101 “Space + Displace” works by John Paul Rosenberg & Dameon LesterRead about Space + Displace: SPACE and DISPLACE
November 9, 2017
Featured artist for Pop Austin’s International Art Fair“Now witness this year’s vibrant iteration of the much-gabbed-about extravaganza, featuring artists from around the world who’ve come together to create four days of dynamic programming, eye candy, and brain fodder, right here in the ATX. Note: The price of admission varies; but, if you can afford it, those fancy VIP tickets are a worthwhile option. Addendum: Terri Thomas is part of this whole shebang, and that alone is reason enough to attend and celebrate.” – The Austin Chronicle Read about the event in the Austin Chronicle: www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/visual-arts/pop-austin-international-art-show-2020749/ Featured Artist by PopAustin: popaustin.com/2017/11/03/featured-artist-terri-thomas/ Read about the event by Culture Map: austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/10-25-17-pop-austin-returns-and-gives-locals-a-chance-to-collect-international-art/ Artist’s work on Artnet: www.artnet.com/galleries/pop-austin/artist-terri-thomas/ See the installation on IG: instagram.com/p/BbU0qWVFluU/
October 27, 2017
Expanded cinema project, “Bravadoa” for The Museum of Human AchievementRead about the event by the Austin Chronicle: https://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/visual-arts/bravadoa-2105209/ Read about Bravadoa, expanded cinema project: Bravadoa
October 26, 2017
Installation “The Return: Seed of Life” for “Caskets: the space between” exhibit or the Museum of Human Achievement“The Return: Seed of Life” – painting, sculpture installation. For a Museum of Human Achievement fundraiser, 6 artists were given a 77”L x 24”W x 13.5”H green / bio-degradable casket from the organization, Distinctive Life, to be finished in any fashion and donated back to promote ‘green burials.’ Thomas created two 10 x 12 ft. acrylic, moss and diamond dust paintings for the floor and backdrop of the casket. The two inverse paintings depict perfect geometry of two overlapping circles that symbolize the ‘seed of life.’ The inner and outer casket complete with pillow are covered in the same live moss and diamond dust, with seeds of the same flowers in the displayed white-flowered casket spray, generously dispersed into the mossy bed. The rest of the exhibition floor was lined with a green grass turf.
October 13, 2017
Demo Gallery group exhibit, “Good Mourning Tis of Thee”Read about the event by Now Playing Austin: www.nowplayingaustin.com/event/good-mourning-tis-of-thee/ “She” fetal skull made of cremation ash and bone.
“Shell (self-portrait) Life/death mask made of plaster, skin, eyelashes.
May 13, 2017
Demo Gallery solo exhibit, “There isn’t any is”Read the John Paul Rosenberg press release: John Paul Rosenberg_ press release Read the review by Glasstire: John Paul Rosenberg Review by Glasstire Read the Essay for JPR’s catalog: Rosenberg Essay
March 31, 2017
Solo exhibit, “Complexities of Neutrality” for Co Lab Projects booth for Art City Austin, TX.“Art in the City Presents: A Curated View of Art City Austin 2017… Mixed media assemblages by John Paul Rosenberg at Co-Lab Projects” Read about the event by HiConcept Magazine: hiconceptmag.com/austinart-cityart/
March 16, 2017
Painting and Sculpture for Pop Austin’s SXSW Art HangRead about the event by Austin Way Magazine: austinway.com/POP-Austins-SXSW-Art-Hang
November 19, 2016
Artist Art Talk for Austin Art Alliance’s ARTBASHSee Tweet by Umlauf Curator: twitter.com/UMLAUFCurator/status/800115166373285888
November 11, 2016
Exhibit, “Honoring the Feminine” for the Austin Art Alliance’s ARTBASH 2016See published images by Rich Meritt for the Austin Art Alliance
November 10, 2016
“Studio 101” presents: “Preview: Co-emergence through Transmodality” exhibit for Studio 101 at Canopy, Austin TXSee published images by the Austin Statesman, Ricardo B. Brazziell
November 9, 2016
Installation, “We-ness, the Perfect Geometry” for the “EAST: Art by the Pound” exhibit for the Museum of Human AchievementDecember 8, 2015
“The Shane & Sia Room” Installation for the Art Alliance’s Inaugural Artbash 2015Solo Exhibition read the review by Rad Austin Magazine
  December 7, 2015
Dual exhibitions, “The Dream Scape Lounge” and “The Shane & Sia Room” for Austin Art Alliance’s Inaugural ARTBASH 2015Read the Review in interview with Field’s Magazine – “I had so much fun at ARTBASH partying with exhibiting artists like Terri Thomas, Sarah Stevens, Rebecca Marino, Alyssa Taylor Wendt and … Elizabeth McDonald, my face still hurts from smiling so much—and I feel like I have just as much cerebral art to think about than if I’d been through a formal museum space.” – curator Seth Orion Schwaiger http://www.fieldsmagazine.com/blog/highlights-from-the-first-annual-artbash/ Read the Review by interview with AM/FM Magazine with Austin Art Alliance – “The exhibition is loosely based around dreams as a point-of-departure for artists and curators. The theme allows artists the freedom to explore a variety of themes, some darker, others erotic, and still others surreal…. We’re excited to present established Austin artists like Terri Thomas and Bob Schneider alongside emerging Texas artists….” http://www.amfm-magazine.com/art-alliance-austin-annouces-participating-artists-for-first-inaugural-artbash-nov-7/ “Dream Scape Lounge” Installation for the Art Alliance’s Inaugural Artbash 2015 Solo Exhibition
read the review by Fields Magazine
read the review by Rad Austin Magazine
       November 9, 2015
Installation, “Dreamscape Lounge Recreation” for the “Just Some Me Time” exhibit at the Museum of Human Achievement.Read about the event by Glasstire: glasstire.com/events/2015/11/12/just-some-me-time/ March 11, 2015
The Giving Bunny – a children’s book parodyview the e-book “the giving bunny” on youtube listen to album samples ”Bunn Bunn’s Greatest Hits” on youtube “…the parody is an attempt to create a very accessible example of how there are many faces in the life of an object. The parody keeps the original story intact, thereby redirecting the focus from the parody back to its original… to invite the reader to re-evaluate any artistic/ literary object or film in our current context of social movements, social change and social relations” – the author. 
February 11, 2015
Detroit Metro Times – Dirty Show starring John Waters in Detroitread the interview Detroit Metro Times, “Terri Thomas makes her hometown Detroit Debut” “Metro Times: …What’s your piece in the Dirty Show?
Thomas: It’s titled “Happy Spanker.” It’s based on this idea of the roles that we play and examining the relationships we have within the roles. It has this perversity because I have an identical twin sister, and I’m playing with these positions that we’re put in (or put ourselves in) as kids.”
November 21, 2014
“Touring the tour” a very meta experience of EAST, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator at the Contemporary Austinread the review The Austin Chronicle “After regrouping in the studio of sensationalist artist Terri Thomas, whose space they filled to the brim, Pesanti led a brief Q&A with Thomas, in which she explained the conceptual foundations of her sexually charged paintings, sculpture, and video, and how her professional history in the fashion industry and her life as an identical twin anchors her work to ideas of perfection and duality. After a few questions from her audience, Thomas took the group to the psuedo-secret Museum of Human Achievement, whose mock IKEA exhibition showcases hundreds of works from a large selection of artists. Thomas created a “dinning room set” for the show, complete with a life-sized, jewel-covered panther sculpture lounging atop the table…” – Austin Chronicle 
November 10, 2014
“Ombré Vanity Dining Room” Installation for the Museum of Human Achievement.AHOM Collaboration: Dining Room by Terri Thomas. Mural by Daniel Hipolito. Caustic Chandelier by Clay Odom, Sean ONeil, Zac Traegar and Terri Thomas. Museum of Human Achievement wins the Austin Critic’s Table Award for Best Work of Art/Independent Public Project for the collaborative project titled, “AHOM.” 
September 19, 2014
“Metamimesis: The Calamity of Plato’s Looking Glass” – a video & painting installation for the “Tap the Glass” exhibit at the Museum of Human Achievementpress release for “Tap the Glass” by the Museum of Human Achievement project statement for Metamimesis : The Calamity of Plato’s Looking Glass
“(Metamimesis) stole the show! Nice play on the theme and good way of incorporating the audience into the work.” – Seth Orion Schwaiger, writer for the Austin Chronicle
June 9, 2014
“An Art-Grab Orgy” – Review of “Claim Your Birthright” at Big Medium Galleryread the review by Art & Arnold “There was a sudden gasp from someone in the audience that punctuated the tentative air that enveloped us. -And then, all hell broke loose- Instead of standing there like one o’clock half struck with the occasional murmurings of nervous laughter, the crowd erupted into an art-grab orgy as people moshed their way towards the paintings, grabbing and tearing at what they could. But there was not one shred of hostility, or negativity between us.” – Art & Arnold
June 6, 2014
Austin Chronicle Studio Visit with artist, Terri Thomasread the interview with the Austin Chronicle’s Andy Campbell “Collaboration is a gift for this provocative artist. In “The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property” Lewis Hyde ruminates on his local drugstore’s ever-rotating display of dime-a-dozen romance novels, asking: “Why do we suspect that Silhouette Romances will not be enduring works of art?” He answers that romance novels are bought and sold in the market economy, and art, in contrast, belongs to the gift economy. If this seems Pollyanna-ish (because, aren’t works of art bought and sold all the time? Sure.), Hyde’s thesis is evident in the art of Terri Thomas. For her current Canopy exhibition, Thomas riffs off the form of the pillow book – originally an 11th century Japanese literary conceit – drawing out its pornotopic dimensions. Titled “Pillow Book as Inheritance,” the installation is a culmination of years of work, which will, upon closing, become part of Hyde’s preferred economic system. We talked in Thomas’ studio, a few doors down from the Canopy gallery….” – interview with Andy Campbell
June 5, 2014
“Pillow” Talk – Terri Thomas on what’s behind the sex in her Big Medium art show” – The Austin Chronicleread the interview with the Austin Chronicle and the Arts Daily “While the work in this current series may be laden with less important autobiographical narratives, my use of my own image is purely reference material. It is not meant to communicate my personal identity or be about me. In my art talk, I mentioned that my recent work heavily relies on strategies, such as artifice, digital inversion, the mask, masquerade (painting in wigs, props, childlike sexual codes of dress, tapestries, that signify “this is a stage”) or a hybridization (combining a likeness of my face with appropriated images of porn or consumer imagery), etc. This pretense or concealment is intended to convey that these representations are not about personal identity or my being at the center of attention, but rather the performance of identity, gender, or pleasure, etc. in order to make commentary, inquiry, or act as a mirror within this loaded representational structure….” -the artist
May 10, 2014
Review of “Pillow Book as Inheritance” at Big Medium Gallery by Joseph Bravoread the review by Joseph Bravo “Thomas’ work challenges harsh distinctions in aesthetic dogmas. Her artwork defies easy categorization. It is neither modern nor traditional; it is both figurative and conceptual. The artist refers to historicism but eschews any sense of anachronism. Her artwork is aware of pinup illustration but challenges its conventions. Thomas’ imagery and use of materials both invokes pop culture’s glamor but simultaneously mocks its fatuousness. The artwork can at once be viscerally pornographic yet militantly feminist. Through her artwork, Thomas questions the sufficiency of the culture’s social mechanisms of information transmission including how the ideas of taboo, political correctness, shame, rhetorical obfuscation and masculine heteronormative pornography complicate, corrupt and confound the inter-generational transmission of sexual knowledge. In order to explore these issues, her work strides painting, sculpture and performance.” – Joseph Bravo
May 7, 2014
“Let’s Talk About Sex” – Review of “Pillow Book as Inheritance”at Big Medium Gallery by Art & Arnoldread the review by Art & Arnold “From the outset, I was not quite sure how to engage this show. A combination of found glass objects, paintings, sequin suit wearing cats on the prowl, and the bust of a large peacock greet the viewer in a glittering menagerie with overt symbols of feminine sexuality. Beyond the painted imagery of partially erotic female nudes, and an open labia, dildos are hiding the crystal sandbox, and some of the glass objects are clearly intimating more than just an aesthetically pleasing thing to look at. But this is not another one of those post-feminist shows that overtly praise the vagina and castrate the penis. Instead, the artist claims that the work meditates from a personal vantage on concerns of duality, subject-hood and object-hood, coupled with societal ambivalences and contradictions regarding feminine sexuality….” – Art & Arnold
April 22, 2014
“Fixation” exhibition at the Zhou B Arts Center in Chicagoread the review “Portraits of Desire” by Chicago’s South Side Weekly “Terri Thomas executed her “Untitled” clown with academic fastidiousness. She concealed every brushstroke, smoothed every skin tone, and evenly diffused the painting’s light across a uniform burgundy background. The painting develops a motif of concealment that makes the clown the obsessive object. The gloves disrupt a tender tummy-touch and hide the source of motherly nourishment. The face paint blurs the clown’s feminine features—already challenged by the clown’s depilated skull and manly wrinkles—but nevertheless references an effeminate clown archetype. It grafts on false emotions that betray a deeper sadness just beyond a carefully resigned and benevolent smile.
Despite the figure’s absurdity, its hidden, weary pensiveness asserts dignity and commands respect. The visible attempt to conceal the body flags the painting’s emotional evasiveness. Thomas teases with the clown’s thinly veiled thoughtfulness. The barely legible affect is a visual breadcrumb that hints at the understated tragedy in the clown’s drawn expression and fake tears.” – Stephen Urchick
September 23, 2011
“Art Squared” exhibit at the Flag Art Foundation in Chelsea, New Yorkread the press release by NY ART BEAT
June 9, 2011
Lyons Wier Gallery features Terri Thomas’ artwork for $13.65 million Chelsea NY renovationRead the Review by the New York Daily News : www.nydailynews.com
March 12, 2010
“Hedone” exhibition at Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea, New YorkSolo Exhibition read the review by Chelsea’s ‘Rambling Rose’ “In Hedone, Terri Thomas explores women’s sexuality with explicit and provocative self-portraits and objects. My favorite, “Folie a Deux,” a sculpture of Swarovski crystal-encrusted conjoined stags, is a visual feast!” – Rose Hartman
read the review by Artlifenyc “….She is brilliant! And if I were a collector with unlimited funds I would definitely get one of Her paintings. Her attention to detail is matched by Her skill. There is a relief quality to the paint in certain areas which makes them more personal and beautiful in person. They are more than could ever be reproduced…” – Mark Perry
Additional GROUP exhibits with Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea, New York, include: Press release for the “Here and Now – Inaugural Exhibition” Press release for “Beast” group sculpture exhibition Press release for “Endless Summer” exhibition Press release for “24/7” group exhibition January 16, 2010
“The Reflected Gaze” exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum in Californiare-title announcement Torrance Art Museum Buy the book The Reflected Gaze
Press Release by the Torrance Art Museum
“I think it’s a really good thing that you paint yourself” – in conversation with artist, Chuck Close
May 6, 2009
The Texas Biennial 2009, at the MACC, curated by co-editor or Art in America, Michael Duncanread the review by the Austin Chronicle
“AC: Where there any reoccurring themes?
  May 5, 2009
Review of “Fete Bucolique” at New Gallery in Houston, Texas by Joseph BravoSolo Exhibition read the review by Joseph Bravo
May 3, 2009
Review of “Fete Bucolique” at New Gallery in Houston, Texas by Debra BrozSolo Exhibition read the review with Cantanker Magazine’s Debra Broz “…There are beliefs around what feminism is that I would claim as my own, some I would reject. How absurd today, to think that women would have to definitively choose to want cock or no cock, penetration or no penetration, to be a good girl or bad, dominant or passive, empowered or a victim. And surprisingly, there are feminists out there who adhere to the idea that some of these scenarios are an “either/or” situation. I think women today should have the freedom, inventiveness and sense of play to momentarily move in and out of these, or any desires. And fortunately, we today live in a culture where that is more possible. There is no denying the strength, power and effectiveness that the feminists of the 70’s demonstrated, as they forged the way for future generations. Their poignant (if not always great) art have brought us one step closer to understanding classlessness, unprejudiced, open mindedness and social equality. If those are the goals of an evolved contemporary Feminism, it is politics I share and claim as my own.” – the artist
“Fete Bucolique” at New Gallery in Houston, TexasSolo Exhibition read the press release for Fete Bucolique read the review by Glasstire
“This show has caused quite a buzz. Are the paintings too crude? Maybe they’re just in bad taste? You decide!” – Glasstire
May 1, 2009
Terri Thomas’ Art Featured for the “All Alumni Exhibition” curated by George Hemphill of Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery in DCread press release for the Corcoran All Alumni Exhibition
November 12, 2006
“U-Genics” Interview with Terri Thomas by Joe Martin HillSolo Exhibition read the interview with Joe Martin Hill (founder of Vision Connect and currently working on the curatorial team assisting Robert Storr in the preparation of the Venice Biennale for 2007)
JMH: Your exhibition is conceived on multiple levels. The individual works stand alone, but there are permutations in series. And then there is an overall installation strategy of different positions relating to similar themes. In that sense, the exhibition itself might be viewed as an installation work. It’s a lot to take in! What clues can you give for finding meaning in the whole? And is this important? ….
November 10, 2006
“U-Genics” at Volitant Gallery in Austin TexasSolo Exhibition read the review by the Austin Chronicle
“There’s a marvelous show there right now – U-Genics – artist Terri Thomas has taken her fashion-industry background and mirrored it through her art, which is a caustic yet beautiful comment on consumer imagery, societal stereotypes, cultural fascination and art history itself.” – Austin Chronicle
read the review by ‘bout what I sees”
“With such a variety of topics, the show felt like a retrospective…. GOOD. ” – ‘Bout What I Sees
November 9, 2006
Review of “U-Genics” exhibit at Volitant GallerySolo Exhibition read the review by MrMichaelMe
November 7, 2006
“U-Genics” exhibition at Volitant GallerySolo Exhibition read the review by Yazmine Fazelina and Bijal Mehta
November 5, 2004
“Indivi/duality” Exhibit at the Monroe Gallery in the Arts Club of Washington in Washington DC Solo Exhibition
August 24, 2004
Review of “Academy 2004” exhibition at the Conner Contemporary of Art (ConnerSmith Gallery) by the Washington City PaperPress Release ConnerSmith Gallery read the review by DC Artnews “Thinking About Art”
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