Thad DeVassie

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writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025 Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com

screenshot of front page of Issue 7 of Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters, where one painting balances the masthead and four other painting are paired with written pieces. All visible paintings by Thad DeVassie
Clockwise from top left: Songs from the Blimp Ruins by Pat Foran (Silverbacked Punk); The Moose Lottery by Kelly E. Sullivan (Stanchion Books); Terrestrial by Suzy Enon (Malarkey Books); The E Walk Book BY Sean Thor Conroe (Little Engines)
Cover image of Edwin Landseer's painting -- "Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Bottom 1848-51" National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Felton Bequest, 1932. Image courtesy NGV, Melbourne.
Cover of Pat Foran's book "Songs from the Blimp Ruins" containing 60 flash pieces that runs the gamut of emotions. My copy included this postcard that is sticking out of the book of a movie poster containing Sophia Loren.
Man sitting upright in a hospital bed with an arrow through his head is comforted by a nurse; a man sits bedside on a stool (opposite side of the nurse) with a granny smith apple perched on his head.
A budding crop field meets multicolored skyscape at the horizon line where a setting/rising sun blazes between agricultural equipment in the distance.
Two bottle rockets in a classic Coca-Cola bottle at night with lingering smoke
A painting of an American flag where the stripes ar tilted and the stars have seeped out of the blue square in the upper left, sliding down a red stripe and landing in a pile in the lower right.
acrylic nocturne painting of shadowed rural fields with treeline and farm lighting in the distance below an encroaching colbalt sky from the left swallowing what remains of a tan-tinged sunset
monochromatic painting from an aerial perspective of the Lincoln and Washington Monuments bridged by the mall's iconic reflecting pool.
Picture of book "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated" by Luisa Muradyan sitting on the arm of an easy chair.
Album cover of the 1995 release "The Brooklyn Side" by The Bottle Rockets, depicting a cue ball against a #13 billiards ball.
Acrylic painting on a 3/4 inch slab of wood titled "Beach Fires" depicting two bonfires on a lowly populated beach. Various shades of blue sky and reflective water dictate a late evening/dusk setting with water lapping on the beach. A rising hill / dune of pine trees converges with the water ending the beach view.
abstract portraiture
Malarkey book mail with Suzy Eynon's Terrestrial -- cover art by Angelo Maneage, and Rachel King's How To Feel with cover art by Daniel Miller
painting acrylic image of a tan-hued woman in a white button sweater neck/collarbone exposed, brown haired cascading down her right side and beginning to flitter over her shoulder. Her head is presumably tilted upward to based on the angle of her jaw line. Her face is fully obscured in a parade of white and gray cloudes, with one tiny patch that has broken away from the bunch. The background is fully black.
5 small paintings on reclaimed wood surfaces: clockwise from top left: diver down symbol in weathered blue with faded white diagonal stripe; mixed medi collage in light blue, newsprint text, yellow, and orange outlined crown; a glass of Guinness beer on wooden bar; landscape painting with dark blue sky and yellow, white and orange wildflowers bursting upward in a tight spot in a lower green field; skyscape of a single muted white cloud formation.
acrylic painting of an ominous two-toned blue sky with sunset colors fading; patch of green field in lower half with outcropping of wildflowers on the right with orange and yellow blooms
Painting of TV console as a young man's head by Thad DeVassie
mixed media composition with layers of text and paint to simulate walled off construction sites in city environs with the failed plea of "post no bills" and a crown-like sticker serving as prominent visual elements
Front and back cover of Issue 22 of Bat City Review, published at the University of Texas, Austin.
A modified take on the traditional Diver Down flag that shows the white stripe in deeper, lower left position and the discoloration of flag to a worn and weathered blue, signaling distress and loss
acrylic painting of a full pint of stout beer with a frothy head. The beverage is on a wood table with light coming in from the right side with a window reflection in the pint glass. Shadowing appears on the table and back wall.
acrylic painting of a narrow water channel with trees on both sides; color is more vibrant inside the channel with deep greens, marine blues, and blue-green reflections in the water. An outcropping of trees are visible, but hazy in the still-lifting fog. Beyond the channel, color is bleached out with hints of light green, yellow and rucksack twill-colored sky, making it difficult to pinpoint the line between water and sky.