Gail Thacker

Gail Thacker graduated from The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with the Tufts University and MIT degree program. In Boston, where along with her peers, friends and collaborators such as Mark Morrisroe, Pat Hearn, Stephen Tashjian (Tabboo!) and Jack Pierson, are all considered to be part of a group of artists labeled The Boston School.

Thacker's Polaroid photography has been published and exhibited internationally. Considering herself a Pataphysician, her work explores a made-up neuroscience, which investigates a state between remembering and forgetting — who we are and who we have created (the Transmagical).

Thacker's work has been seen in exhibitions at museums and galleries including Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago, Spain; and the Safety Gallery, the June Bateman Gallery, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Clamp Art and Participant, Inc. in New York. Her Polaroid work is included in such collections as The Polaroid Collection (Somerville, Massachusetts), FotoMuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland), CGAC (Santiago, Spain), the Fisher Collection (Florida) and the New York Public Library and is featured in publications such as, The Polaroid Book (Taschen), Familiar Feelings (on the Boston Group), There was a Sense of Family: The Friends of Mark Morrisroe (Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg), Mark Dirt (Paper Chase Press), Tabboo! The Art of Stephen Tashjian (Distributed Art Publishers), along with articles in such newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Press, The New Yorker, Providence Town Magazine and The Village Voice, and a soon to be released book on her Polaroid art which will include essays by Eileen Myles and Manuel Segade in a bilingual Spanish and English edition.

• Gotham Art & Theater
  • Spirit in the Sky, 1995, Safe-T Gallery
  • Tabboo!, 2007, Safe-T Gallery
  • Brandon Olson, Lance Cruce and Robert Appleton as Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling, 2008, Safe-T Gallery

• Gotham Art & Theater — ArtNet Magazine, December 2008

• Mark Morrisroe, Eyes Closed (Pat’s Room on Day Tripper, Boston to NYC)
• Pat Hearn at 38 Thayer Street
• Mark Morrisroe
• Je m’appelle Tabboo!
• Tabboo! on Motorcycle
• Self Portrait
• Kenny Kenny
• Michael
• Dee and Crystal
• Jimmy
• Flower (Rafael Sanchez)
• Rafael Sanchez

• Enlarged Polaroids, manipulated process

Landscapes

• St. Marks Place, 2001 16" x 20"
• Walk, 2001 16" x 20"
• Soho, NY Cityscape 2000 16" x 20"
• Newport, RI; 2001 16" x 20"
• Florida, 2000 16" x 20"
• Radio City, 2001 16" x 20"

Portraits

• Armen (Polka Dot Dress) 16" x 20"
• Maldin 16" x 20"
• Ali, 1995 16" x 20"
• Crown, 1999 19" x 15.5"
• Bull / Rafael Sánchez / Chasing the Apron at Jackie 60, 1997 16" x 20"
• Valery and Terry, 2001 16.5" x 12.75"
• Gene Frankel's Typewriter, 2003 22.5" x 18"
• Beardsly, 1999 16" x 20"
• Boothead, 1997 16" x 20"
• Elizabeth, 1999 17.75" x 14"
• Flower, 1997 17.75" x 13.25"
• Toy (Rafael Sanchez), 1997 17.5" x 14"
• Princess, 1997 17.75" x 13.25"
• Persona, 1997 16" x 20"
• Self Portrait - Bike, 1996 17.5" x 14"
• Mark Morrisroe In Bed, 1989 17.5" x 14"

Boston

• Mark Morrisroe 17.5" x 14"
• Records 17.5" x 14"
• Pat Hearn 17.5" x 14"
• Gail and Lynelle 17.5" x 14"

In 2005, Thacker took over the helm of the Gene Frankel Theatre, since which her work has documented the memory of the artistic community at the Gene Frankel Theatre. She has worked with artist such as Stephen Tashjian, Holly Woodlawn, Sur Rodney Sur and Arleen Schloss, and Chi Chi Valenti keeping a sense of underground art and performance art alive in New York City.