Working in collage, assemblage and installation, Dayna Thacker uses found materials to investigate thought systems we create in order to make sense of the world and ourselves, with a particular interest in the overlap of contemplative disciplines and scientific theory. A graduate of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Thacker worked in Atlanta from 2006 – 2014, and now lives on the coast of Texas. She was awarded a studio space at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center for 2008-2013; was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation 2010 Emerging Artist Award; and her work was featured in the 2009 Southern issue of New American Paintings. Thacker’s 2010 solo show at the Barbara Archer Gallery was reviewed in the September/October 2010 issue of Art Papers magazine; and her 2013 solo show was praised in ArtsATL and burnaway. Her work was included in the recent “Works on Paper: 1980-2013 Women from the Permanent Collection” at MOCA GA.