THOMAS DEXTER

is an artist and performer working with the language of moving images.

Dexter's projects have been featured at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NYC, PS1/MOMA, Microscope Gallery, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, The New York Museum of Art and Design, Sight and Sound Festival, the Mononoaware Festival, and The Lesley Heller Workspace among others. Dexter received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Bennington College. Vitae

contact :: thomas.dexter(at)gmail.com

  • Burned Mesh - Excerpt (2018)

    2 Channel 4K Video, 4:44 looping.

  • Echo (2015)

    Aluminium tape, light kit, dimensions variable
  • Screens: Traveling Matte (2017

    Single channel HD Video. 2:00

  • Screens: Construction/Sight (2017

    Debris mesh, hardware, fasteners, 12' x 9' x 8'
  • Screens: Two Barriers (2017

    White noise generators, tape, 9' x 4' x 1'
  • Sping Cycle: I - IV (2012)

    Looping single channel HD video and sound. A power-drill mounted HD camera flattens and warps space. All visual effects and sounds were derived from the camera apparatus itself.

    Installation shot from Radiator Arts 2019
  • Isaac Newton - in an undated letter to John Locke

    The manner was this. I looked a very little while upon ye sun in a looking­glass wth my right eye & then turned my eyes into a dark corner of my chamber & winked to observe the impression made & the circles of colours wch encompassed it & how they decayed by degrees & at last vanished. in a few hours time I had brought my eys to such a pass that I could look upon no bright object with either eye but I saw ye sun before me, so that I durst neither write nor read but to recover ye use of my eyes shut myself up in my chamber made dark for three days together & used all means to divert my imagination from ye Sun.

    But now I have been very well for many years, tho I am apt to think that if I durst venture my eyes I could still make ye phantasm return by the power of my fansy.
  • Opticks (2014)

    11min looping 2 channel HD video and sound. Inspired by Newton's early scientific investigations into the nature of light and visual perception
  • Leila Bordreuil: Episodes and Mutations / Performed by Mivos Quartet & Thomas Dexter (2018)

    Immersive light installation / performance @ Issue Project Room
  • Nervous Index (2015)

    Liquid graphite on paper, 22" x 30" Br>

    A series of procedural drawings exploiting a hand tremor
  • House II (2015)

    HD Video, 12:00 loop

  • Optical/Track (Excerpts)

    Single channel HD Video, Optical Sound, Audio Hardware. 64:00