Thursday, June 17, 2010
Art Seen: Dayna Thacker at Barbara Archer
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:48 PM
- In Your Own Words, 2010
Another way to say that: each of Thacker's buildings are like portrait of a mind. One building, paneled with musical notes and old newspapers, sprouts vast roots into the world while growing leaves within the windows - a loud, ambitious, and extroverted personality. Another building, titled "In Your Own Words," puffs a solitary stream of smoke from the chimney.
While walking through Thacker's show, I found myself returning back to this lonely, isolated home - drawn to the strange set of steps and the tumultuous clouds contained within it. Though Thacker maintains that she doesn't select the yellowed pages that make up her collages for the specific text, seemingly accidental connections start to appear. The top step reads "Raise, exalt." The thin side of the tall house tells the interrupted story of a farmer, perhaps isolated like this building, spreading seeds for tall, thin pine trees. These connections felt simultaneously precise and elusive, as if I staring into a soul without knowing exactly what it was.
Dayna Thacker grew up in Tennessee and currently lives in Atlanta, where she is part of The Contemporary's studio artist program. Pivots of Moment & the Structure of Accumulation continues at Barbara Archer until July 31.
- A detail from "In Your Own Words"
- A detail from "In Your Own Words"
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