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About
Thomas Lail exhibits his work widely and performs and records with the experimental music project soundBarn. He has written numerous reviews and essays, including two catalogue pieces on American artist Robert Longo, and publishes poetry and experimental writing through soundBarn Press.
Thomas Lail grew up amidst the suburban dreams of the early 1960s, with a geodesic dome across the street. A member of the Post-Pictures/ “Theory Generation,” Lail recycles and repurposes fragments of images that look toward utopian ideals—and their failings. Rag-picked, “exhausted” pictures: protests. Edenic floral patterns. Flags. Maps. Often reproduced to the point of degraded obscurity, they find form in the common, cast-off materials of our everyday global-weirding—anxious projections of the boundaries we draw across pictures-of-the-world, and the repeated hope they carry.