“Metamemesis” screening in 8 different countries for Trivu’s International Water Project on March 22, 2018, International Water Day

Read about “Metamemesis”: Metamemesis

Read about the event by Trivu.org: trivu.org/water

Commission “Matrix”

Curated show at Studio 101 “Space + Displace” works by John Paul Rosenberg & Dameon Lester

Read about Space + Displace:  SPACE and DISPLACE

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/ 

Expanded cinema project, “Bravadoa” for The Museum of Human Achievement

Read about the event by the Austin Chronicle: https://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/visual-arts/bravadoa-2105209/

Read about Bravadoa, expanded cinema project: Bravadoa

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. 

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.

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

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/

Painting and Sculpture for Pop Austin’s SXSW Art Hang

Read about the event by Austin Way Magazine: austinway.com/POP-Austins-SXSW-Art-Hang

Artist Art Talk for Austin Art Alliance’s ARTBASH

See Tweet by Umlauf Curator: twitter.com/UMLAUFCurator/status/800115166373285888

Exhibit, “Honoring the Feminine” for the Austin Art Alliance’s ARTBASH 2016

See published images by Rich Meritt for the Austin Art Alliance

https://www.facebook.com/ArtAllianceAustin/photos/a.1370919636254312.1073741838.169091703103784/1370925409587068/?type=3&theater

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“Studio 101” presents: “Preview: Co-emergence through Transmodality” exhibit for Studio 101 at Canopy, Austin TX

See published images by the Austin Statesman, Ricardo B. Brazziell

Installation, “We-ness, the Perfect Geometry” for the “EAST: Art by the Pound” exhibit for the Museum of Human Achievement

“The Shane & Sia Room” Installation for the Art Alliance’s Inaugural Artbash 2015

Solo Exhibition

read the review by Rad Austin Magazine
“As the fantasy continued throughout the venue, viewers were taken from surrealism to a more erotic state with Terri Thomas’ work. Front and center featured a embossed panther titled, Ebony (Big Black Powerful Pussy) with over 54, 720 Swarovski crystal covering the creature. The erotic theme hit a climax with one of the most talked about installations, The Shane & Sia Room. Decked out with an old, hand-me-down recliner, sexy calendar, a dirty ashtray and boobie lamp the additional props, such as an open jar of Vaseline and tissue referred to Thomas’ investigation into beauty, femininity, sexuality, and mortality. Building upon clever references to art, Thomas draws upon her extensive experience in the fashion industry as point of departure and questions the commodification of desire and industry set standards of beauty.” – Rad Austin Magazine

Dual exhibitions, “The Dream Scape Lounge” and “The Shane & Sia Room” for Austin Art Alliance’s Inaugural ARTBASH 2015

Read 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

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/

“Terri Thomas’ “Singleton” is featured in HBO series, “True Detective”

The Giving Bunny – a children’s book parody

view 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.

Detroit Metro Times – Dirty Show starring John Waters in Detroit

read the interview Detroit Metro Times, “Terri Thomas makes her hometown Detroit Debut”

“Touring the tour” a very meta experience of EAST, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator at the Contemporary Austin

read 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

“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.”

“Metamimesis: The Calamity of Plato’s Looking Glass” – a video & painting installation for the “Tap the Glass” exhibit at the Museum of Human Achievement

press release for “Tap the Glass” by the Museum of Human Achievement

“Claim Your Birthright” – a closing performance at Big Medium Gallery

Solo Exhibition

“An Art-Grab Orgy” – Review of “Claim Your Birthright” at Big Medium Gallery

read 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

Austin Chronicle Studio Visit with artist, Terri Thomas

read 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

“Pillow” Talk – Terri Thomas on what’s behind the sex in her Big Medium art show” – The Austin Chronicle

read 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

Review of “Pillow Book as Inheritance” at Big Medium Gallery by Joseph Bravo

read 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

“Let’s Talk About Sex” – Review of “Pillow Book as Inheritance”at Big Medium Gallery by Art & Arnold

read 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

“Fixation” exhibition at the Zhou B Arts Center in Chicago

read the review “Portraits of Desire” by Chicago’s South Side Weekly

“Art Squared” exhibit at the Flag Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York

read the press release by NY ART BEAT
read the interview with FlagArt Foundation founder, Glenn Fuhrman – “Buy What You Love”
“Austin-based artist Terri Thomas is also someone whose art is in our collection”

Lyons Wier Gallery features Terri Thomas’ artwork for $13.65 million Chelsea NY renovation

Read the Review by the New York Daily News : www.nydailynews.com

“The Reflected Gaze” exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum in California

re-title announcement Torrance Art Museum

“I think it’s a really good thing that you paint yourself” – in conversation with artist, Chuck Close

The Texas Biennial 2009, at the MACC, curated by co-editor or Art in America, Michael Duncan

“AC: Where there any reoccurring themes?
MD: Oh yes! Artists positioning themselves against the world, such as Terri Thomas’ outrageous paintings of herself nude with gigantic glittered peacocks…” – Michael Duncan

 

Terri Thomas’ Art Featured for the “All Alumni Exhibition” curated by George Hemphill of Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery in DC

Metrohouse : Identity Complex

“U-Genics” at Volitant Gallery in Austin Texas

Solo Exhibition

Review of “U-Genics” exhibit at Volitant Gallery

Solo Exhibition

read the review by MrMichaelMe
“She seems to have chosen the varied media to fit a different goal in each series. Be it the digital manipulations that transformed the artist’s face into Barbie, Gwen Stefani or Angelina Jolie a la airbrushed magazine covers, or the deteriorating feel of the work in the smaller space in which Thomas used ground up water-based medium on oil. The perfect compliment to the later was the mini video piece which was a close up of maggots. Within the context of the whole show it was maybe the most beautiful if not disgusting piece in Volitant. I was quite fond of the untitled found object installation of refurbished chairs and photos of said chairs. Thomas refers to the them in this show’s literature as being “objects with an erased history” tying it into the show’s theme….” -Michael Anthony Garcia

“Indivi/duality” Exhibit at the Monroe Gallery in the Arts Club of Washington in Washington DC

Review of “Academy 2004” exhibition at the Conner Contemporary of Art (ConnerSmith Gallery) by the Washington City Paper

Press Release ConnerSmith Gallery

read the review by DC Artnews “Thinking About Art”
“Terri Thomas offers a garnish but technically accomplished variation on the famous Annie Leibovitz photograph of John and Yoko.  Limned in eye-popping, solarized green, pink and blue.” – Louis Jacobson with the Washington City Paper

“Indivi/duality”Exhibition in the Hemicycle at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington DC