Education

Selected Grants and Awards

Selected Public Collections

Commissions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Two Person Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

FILM INSTALLATIONS

Loose Corner, 10 m, premiered 1986 opening night of the 24th New York Film Festival and aired on Independent Focus, Showtime and “Declarations of Independents” on the Learning Channel, 1988; The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, 1994. Thomas A. Edison Black Maria Film & Video Festival Award, BACA Film Festival Award. Innumerable screenings. Mounted as installation at the Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, in exhibit, Wonderland, 2003, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit, 2006.

Passionate Guests, l988, 9' 2 1/4" X 6' 6 1/2 " X 5' 9", moving sunlight, wood, metal, glass, Art Symposium, Minos Beach, Crete. During the course of the day, the light forms cast by the sun shining through the seven cut-out shaped windows, move and change projecting their shapes on the interior walls, ceiling and floor of the house structure. The one small table and the six chairs find new configurations each day. At night the shapes are lit from outside to cast still images inside the "house."

Tentative Agreements, 1987 (music by Ms. Thacher). 35 mm slides and chairs. 5 Unaffiliated Artists, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island, New York. Festa d’Unita, Florence, Italy, 1988, The Illusionists, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, Wisc. 1993.
     “By imagining oneself in a chair one moves into the realm it occupies in both scale and situation...creates an odd, metaphoric presence, as do pieces of Magritte furniture we somehow know are not what they appear to be.” Helen A. Harrison, NY Times, l987.

Anteroom, 1982 (music by David Byrne). 35 mm slides, doorknob. Dimensions: 9’ X 4' X 3'. Directions ‘83, Biennial, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC and Stopped Time: Four Projected Environments The Sculpture Center, New York City, 1985.
      “...A real doorknob...is attached to a wall and the film is projected so as to sync with the dimensions of the physical wall, thus simultaneously sabotaging film’s capacity of trompe l’oeil illusionism and the way in which we define space.” Hirshhorn Museum catalogue.
     “The secret life of people and things asserts itself in an unhurried flow of beautifully composed images. The best work here—by Smith, Sherman, Murray, Burton, Armanjani, Thacher and Buster—pushes toward other
levels of meaning and opens the way for imaginative interaction between viewer and work.” Lee Fleming, Art News, Summer ’83

Lighthouse, 1981. 35 mm sequential slides, paper “house” structure, chair. Dimensions: 8’ X 14’ X 8’. P. S. 1, Long Island City, Alice Tully Hall, for the 19th New York Film Festival, 1981, Long Island City and New York.
      In memory of a friend, the photographer, Francesca Woodman. “Thacher’s use of light as form and symbol has a deliberately spiritual cast. Her light is the radiance of inner illumination and a commentary on the action of light in the medium of film and slides...that Thacher achieves this transcendental state with a down-to-earth phantasmagoria is all the more remarkable.” Ann Sargent Wooster, Afterimage, Dec ‘81.

FILMOGRAPHY, SELECTED SCREENINGS AND AWARDS

Lost/In Memoriam, 7m, 2006. Tribeca Film Festival, New York, Film Forum, NY., MadCat Film Festival, San Francisco and Laboratorio Immagine Donna,Florence, Italy. 2007

Docking at X, 7 m, 2001, silent, screened with live concert performances in Europe and included in US Express, a history of American video, 2004.

Houses and Gardens, (work in progress), silent film, screened with live concert performance at Sedgwick Theater, Philadelphia, PA Fall 2001.

To The Top, 7 m, premiered 1991 at the 28th New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives. San Francisco Art Institute International Film & Video Festival award, Sinking Creek Film Celebration Award.

One Art, 2 m, (director) premiered 1987 at the 25th New York Film Festival, produced by N.Y. Center for Visual History aired on PBS “Voices and Visions,” Elizabeth Bishop, One Art, 1988, Berlin Film Festival, l990. First Prize 5th Annual Suffolk Film & Video Festival.

Loose Corner, 10 m, premiered 1986 opening night of the 24th New York Film Festival and aired on Independent Focus, Showtime and “Declarations of Independents” on the Learning Channel, 1988; The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, 1994. Thomas A. Edison Black Maria Film & Video Festival Award, BACA Film Festival Award. Innumerable screenings.

The Breakfast Table, 14 m, (videotape), 1979, aired on PBS 1980 through 1985, “Night Flight,” Cable TV, 1982 invited INPUT ‘80.

Sea Travels, 11 m, premiered 1978 at the 16th New York Film Festival, aired on several local Public Television stations in 1979, Filmex, Los Angeles, 1979 and the Collective for Living Cinema, New York, 1985; The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, 1994. Golden Athena, Athens International Film Festival, San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival award.

Homage to Magritte, 10 m, premiered 1975 at “New Directors/New Films, “Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the 13th New York Film Festival and the “New American Filmmakers" Series, Whitney Museum, New York, 1975. French Minister of Culture Award, Cine Golden Eagle Award.

Mr. Story, 28 m, 1972, (a collaboration with DeeDee Halleck,) premiered at “What’s Happening,” Museum of Modern Art and Donnell Library, 1973. Sinking Creek International Film Celebration Award.

Back Track, 7 m, 1969, (a collaboration with Dennis Oppenheim,) premiered at “The Information Show” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969 and The Kitchen, 1979, Whitney Museum of Art, 2001.

Manhattan Doorway, 2 m, 1968-1980, screened at Anthology Film Archives, 1977, 1988 and 1989, Cinemateque Francaise 2001.

Permanent Wave, 3 m, 1968 (film mis-dated), premiered at the Women’s Interart Center, 1974, Anthology Film Archives, 1977, 1988 and 1989, and at the International Experimental Film Congress, Toronto, Canada, 1989, Cinemateque Francaise 2001.

MUSEUM DOCUMENTARIES

Painted Earth, the Art of the Mimbres Indians, 16 m, 1989, produced and directed commissioned by “The Program for Art on Film” of the Metropolitan and Getty Museums, the American Film Festival, 1990; The National Gallery, 1990.

Laura Gilpin, An Enduring Grace, 28 m, 1987, directed for the Amon Carter Museum, the Flaherty Film Seminar, 1988, Finalist American Film & Video Festival, l987 and National Geographic, PBS, 1989. (Director)