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About
Thomas Lail uses painting, collage, sculpture, and printmaking to examine the visual toll of repeated political and cultural imagery. Sourcing his material from protest documentation, vintage floral wallpaper, flags, and maps, Lail manipulates visual fragments that have been worn down by constant repetition and circulation. By combining these images with common, everyday cast-off materials, his work builds anxious, tactile projections that confront global-weirding, political borders, and the resilience of human hope.
Lail’s multidisciplinary practice extends into text and sound; he performs and records with the experimental music project soundBarn and oversees soundBarn Press, an imprint for poetry and experimental writing.
Lail has exhibited widely in museums, galleries, and independent art spaces throughout the United States and Europe. He teaches advanced studio courses, painting, and drawing at Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY.