{"id":2422,"date":"2019-10-10T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:19:52","slug":"patricia-thornley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/patricia-thornley\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Thornley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Patricia Thornley<\/a> is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City.
\nShe is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (BFA in Sculpture), the Whitney Independent Study Program (Studio), and Bard College (MFA in Photography).<\/p>\n

In New York City she has been an Instructor at the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and an Instructor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and Maine College of Art. She was a Fellow at the Salem2Salem Artists Residency Program, Germany. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, artist-run centers, and site-specific curatorial projects. Selected venues include: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), AC Project Room (NY), Wexner Center for the Arts (OH), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, Canada), croxhapox (Ghent, Belgium), Pa\u00e7o des Artes (Sao Paulo, Brazil), and Alhamra Art Gallery (Lahore, Pakistan). Her work was featured in\u00a0Views from the Avant-Garde<\/em>\u00a0at the 51st New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Her most recent project, THIS IS US, <\/em><\/strong>is a seven-year series of artworks that emulate and embrace the collaborative fantasies we enact through popular media in the United States, as it shifts ubiquitous media forms to a place of social gesture, and acts of desire.<\/p>\n

THIS IS US: The Western, 2018<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>asks the viewer to recognize the enduring stereotypes persisting in a culture still besotted by old mythologies, and to connect with them. The work ultimately speaks of the malleability of ourselves, to the interchangeable costumes we wear everyday, and the history and specificity of what we consider to be our personal choices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use conversation, song, props, and cheap effects to create a dialogue between the participant\u2019s actual identity and the mythologies that I, and our culture, imagine around them. In my role\/performance as Director I expose my expectations, desires, and blindspots. The work speaks of that weakness\u2014of an inability to disentangle one\u2019s self from personal and cultural forces\u2014and of our shared willingness, or need, to be transported.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deserter<\/i>, 2018, Digital Pigment Print, 16 x 16 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Savage<\/i>, 2018, Digital Pigment Print, 16 x 16 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Patricia Thornley is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (BFA in Sculpture), the Whitney Independent Study Program (Studio), and Bard College (MFA in Photography). In New York City she has been an Instructor at the School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}