David Thonis is an artist working out of New York City and Neversink, New York. His practice incorporates installation, video and performance in its questioning of the built environment and the systems that support it. He has an undergraduate degree from The Rhode Island School of Design in Furniture and Masters of Studio Art from Hunter College, The City University of New York.
Through the shifting use of installation, sculpture and other media, David's work attempts to question some of the anxiety inherent in the built environment. Whereas design often solves a problem, his practice seeks to question. In applying obsessive detail to the craft inherent in making things, David is at once utilizing, while deconstructing, the reasoning of well-established conventions found in contemporary life - architecture, infrastructure, wayfinding, down to the daily details of commodity and routine. Denying these systems of order, his work attempts to encourage the absurdity of our landscape, technology, capitalism and collapse.