Gail Thacker attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts and has lived and worked in New York City since 1982.
11 Facts About Gail Thacker
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Gail Thacker is part of a group of artists called The Boston School.
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Gail Thacker was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1959.
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Gail Thacker then studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts concentrating on video, painting, and photography, and graduated in 1981.
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Gail Thacker studied at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1981.
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Gail Thacker was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and died in 1989.
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Gail Thacker's process includes first aging the Polaroid photographs before developing them.
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Gail Thacker left some unrinsed photographs wrapped in plastic, which caused distortion of the images.
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Gail Thacker allowed images to sit in their chemicals for months to years before developing the negatives.
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In 2005, Gail Thacker became the owner and director of the Gene Frankel Theatre, and since then her work has documented the memory of the artistic community at the Gene Frankel Theatre.
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Gail Thacker has worked with artists 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.