Thomas Lail

Thomas Lail is an artist, writer, and musician. 

Lail’s work has been exhibited in galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums in the United States and Europe. He performs and records with the experimental music project soundBarn and publishes poetry and experimental writing through soundBarn Press. He has written reviews, essays, and exhibition catalogue texts.  

 

Lail grew up amidst the suburban dreams of the 1960s and 70s, with a geodesic dome across the street. He attended The College of Saint Rose and the University at Albany and teaches drawing, painting, and advanced studio courses at Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY 

 

Thomas Lail works with found imagery drawn from protests, floral wallpaper patterns, flags, and maps. Associated with the Post-Pictures generation, he repurposes images that have been worn down through repetition and circulation. Through painting, collage,sculpture, and  print-based processes, he transforms these familiar visual fragments with common, cast-off materials of our everyday into anxious projections of our global-weirding, the boundaries we draw across pictures-of-the-world, and the repeated hope they carry.