Twee Abstraction @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid / Opening reception: Friday, 1/6/12, 6pm-10pm

Twee Abstraction

PHILADELPHIA - Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its January exhibition, Twee Abstraction, curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid member Alex Paik.

Twee Abstraction brings together the work of several abstract artists whose practices recall the sweetness and childish clunkiness of early twee pop music.  Bands such as Talulah Gosh, The Field Mice, or Beat Happening abandoned the nihilistic and political overtones of punk music and combined its DIY spirit and straightforward, three-chord simplicity with a love of 60s jangly guitars and girl-group harmonies into a music that was lo-fi,
straightforward, and delicate.

Similarly, the artists in Twee Abstraction exhibit a predisposition toward the straightforward, the fragile, and the hand-made.  Whether it be through the use of fragile materials, through willfully amateur technique, or through a love of simple compositional strategies and bright color harmonies, these artists invite viewers to an experience that is intimate, playful, and gracefully underworked.

Exhibiting artists:
Lauren Collings
Suzanne Goldenberg
Siobhan Liddell
Andrew Masullo
Jeffrey Scott Matthews
Brooke Moyse
Alex Paik
Caroline Santa
Tamara Zahaykevich

Twee Abstraction
January 6 - 29, 2012
Opening reception:  Friday, January 6, 6pm-10pm
Hours:  Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment 

 

319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com

Sending warm wishes from all of the members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid for a prosperous New Year and a joyful Holiday Season!

HAPPY HOLIDAY! Love, TSA

Hello TSA Friends!
After the Holiday bustle, come and celebrate an exciting new year of exhibitions with Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
 
Please join us for our January exhibition, Twee Abstraction, curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid member Alex Paik.

Twee Abstraction, curated by Alex Paik
January 6 - 29, 2012
Opening reception:  Friday, January 6, 6pm-10pm

Gallery hours Saturday & Sunday, 2PM-6PM & by appointment

Appointments: (484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com

 

319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com

Sending warm wishes from all of the members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid for a prosperous New Year and a joyful Holiday Season!

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- Terri Saulin Frock for Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Panel Discussion w/ Gerard Brown: “ ” @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Friday, December 2, 2011 / 6 – 6:45pm, Featuring Gerard Brown, David Stephens and Robin Rice

                                                                    Photo courtesy of Jaime Alverez

Are you a Reader or a Seer?

 Gerard Brown

“      ”

Friday, December 2, 2011

Panel Discussion: 6 – 6:45pm

Please join us for an evening of conversation with Gerard Brown, David Stephens and Robin Rice.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107
 (484)-469-0319

For more information and images of Gerard Brown's exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, go here!

                                                                    Photo courtesy of Jaime Alverez

Opportunity

I’m writing to inform you that the Indianapolis Museum of Art is currently issuing a call for proposals for a summer 2012 six-week residency on Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island within the IMA’s 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. Graduate and undergraduate students and emerging professionals in the fields of art, design, architecture and performing arts are encouraged to apply to customize and reside on Indianapolis Island.

Anchored in the 35-acre lake within 100 Acres, Indianapolis Island is a habitable “off-the-grid” structure accessible by rowboat. At about 20 feet in diameter, the island serves as an experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. Residents collaborate with Zittel by adapting and modifying the island’s structure according to their individual needs. The project blends elements of environmental art, sculpture, design and performance in a unique way, offering a challenging and experimental forum for exploring ideas about individualism and self-sufficiency.

We ask that you please share this unique opportunity with your students and colleagues. I have attached a flyer for distribution around your institution and a press release with further information. You can also direct those interested in applying to our residency website (www.imamuseum.org/islandresidency), where renderings and images of Indianapolis Island as well as information about the application process are posted.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Many thanks.

All best,

Amanda

Amanda York
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Contemporary Art

Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN  46208-3326
T 317-923-1331 x529  F 317-931-1978
ayork@imamuseum.org
http://www.imamuseum.org

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Gerard Brown: “ ” @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening Reception Friday, November 4, 2011 5 – 10pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce their November exhibition

Gerard Brown

“ ”

November 4 – December 31, 2011

Opening Reception Friday, November 4, 2011 5 – 10pm

PHILADELPHIA – Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia’s artist-curated exhibition space presents “ ”, an exhibition of new works on paper by Philadelphia artist Gerard Brown. The show opens with a reception on First Friday, November 4, 2011. The gallery is located at 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA. Gallery hours are Saturday & Sunday 2pm-6pm & by appointment. For additional information and images please contact our staff or gallery director Matt Sepielli, at tel. (484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com

The exhibit of paintings and prints continues Brown’s exploration of the intersections between reading and seeing, and its punctuated title (which can be read as “blank quote” or “smart quotes”) alludes to the use of others' words in the work. Two large pieces dominate the show; a multi-panel drawing in gouache on paper translates Frank O’Hara’s 1957 poem “To the Harbormaster” into nautical code flags, and a 32-part digital print conflates images of oceanographic satellite photography with James McBride’s bestselling 1996 memoir, “The Color of Water”. “I want to know what happens when things are misunderstood,” Brown says, “when messages that are encoded are not seen as meaningful, or when an attempt to communicate directly is seen as a formal gesture.” During the run of the exhibit, the gallery will release an essay by artist David Stephens and art writer Robin Rice that discusses the works.

Gerard Brown is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Foundation Department at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. A longtime participant in the Philadelphia art community, he contributed art reviews to the Philadelphia Weekly and Seven Arts magazine in the 1990s and, with City Paper critic Robin Rice, began eyelevel, a newsletter of art criticism that appeared occasionally throughout the late 1990s. He has organized exhibits and contributed essays to galleries and museums throughout the region, and is currently the Resident Scholar at the Center for Art in Wood, where he organized “Turning to Art In Wood: A Creative Journey” in observation of the newly re-named organization’s 25th anniversary. This is Brown’s third one-person exhibit, and his first in Philadelphia.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is an artist-run and artist-curated exhibition space located at 319A North 11th Street, home to Vox Populi, Marginal Utility, Grizzly Grizzly, and Progressive Sharing. Our goal is to connect the Philadelphia art scene to the global art community by showing the work of emerging artists from Philadelphia and other cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In addition to its exhibition programs, Tiger Strikes Asteroid maintains Flat File, a collection of small-scale artworks by past, current and future exhibitors. All works in Flat File are under 9 x 12 inches and are available for sale. The collection may be viewed by appointment.

Gallery hours Saturday & Sunday, 2PM-6PM & by appointment
Appointments: (484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com


319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com


- Terri Saulin for Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Shawn Beeks @ Slingluff: Reviewed in Title Magazine

Check out a review of Dick at the Slingluff Gallery.

http://www.title-magazine.com/clark_1021.html

The Unsettled @ UD Crane: October 13 – November 27, 2011- 2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm

October 13 – November 27, 2011
2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm
Location: University of Delaware Gallery
Hours: Wednesday, 12-4, and Thursday thru Sunday 12 to 6
 
Though the word “grotesque” has in contemporary usage come to refer primarily to the unpleasant or disgusting, The Unsettled instead explores the term as it relates to notions of duality, hybridism, and transformation. The work chosen occupies the physical, mental, and cultural spaces between states of being and emphasizes those unsettling elements that exist just below the civilized veneer of society. It is about those things we attempt to hide from our friends, family, neighbors, and even ourselves, and the transformations that take place as a result of such suppression, It is about the futility of denying our basic natures and examines the mechanisms by which our fears, doubts, and primal instincts – real and imagined – manifest themselves to ourselves and the world around us, on both a personal and societal level. Taken as a whole, The Unsettled suggests that what we think is solid might not be, and dares us as viewers and artists to peek beneath the surface of what we consider normal.

co-currated by Michael Merry and Patrick Koziol, two currentUniveristy of Delaware MFA students

Featuring:

Susan Camp
Erica Eyres
Alex Fogt
Brandon Jones
Patrick Koziol
Michael Merry
Cindy Stockton Moore
Josh Nobiling
Andrew Prayzner
Elaine Quave
Troy Richards
Terri Saulin
Jacob Smiley
Adam Parker Smith
Lindsay Wraga

PRESS: http://theartblog.org/2011/10/unsettled-and-unsettling-at-the-udel-gallery-at-the-crane/

Alex Paik @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Alex Paik: Start to Move
October 7 – 30, 2011

PHILADELPHIA - Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its October exhibition, Start to Move, featuring new work by New York based artist Alex Paik.

"Start to Move" is a song from post-punk band Wire's seminal album, Pink Flag. Trouser Press said of the album: "The group manipulated classic rock song structure by condensing them into brief, intense explosions of attitude and energy." Similarly, Alex Paik's new small-scale paper assemblages feel like dense clusters of brightly colored forms that threaten to simultaneously explode and collapse.  The new work hugs the line between being tightly composed and loosely improvised and recall the early formal experiments of the 60s and 70s and the inventive abstraction of Paul Klee or, more recently, Thomas Nozkowski.There is a sweetness about the work in the twee color palette and the toy-sized scale, but at the same time a fuck-all swagger in the laughably lo-fi paint handling and angular, chopped up forms.

Alex Paik received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and his BFA from Penn State University.  He was the founder and director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid and currently lives and works in New York.  He has shown throughout the United States, including a recent solo exhibition at U-Turn Art Space in Cincinnati, OH and a group show called Get on the Block at Camel Art Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Alex Paik: Start to Move
October 7 – 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, October 7 6pm-10pm
TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID
319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107
http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com

October 23, 2011

Title Magazine: September Highlights

What is Title Magazine? Title Magazine is a new online art magazine that focuses exclusively upon art in the city of brotherly love-ish. Included among the throngs of insightful Title contributors are a handful of UArts almuns, spreading their critical wings. Funny you should ask, but yes, yes I do have a review up in this month's issue! It just so happens to focus upon Tiger Strikes Asteroid's Moving On. Long story short, here is a link:

http://title-magazine.com/

The article should be up later today. In the meantime, check out Veronica Cianfrano's pearls regarding Ai Weiwei @ the Slought Foundation. This issue just so happens to be edited by Tiernan Alexander

Mr. Shawn Beeks @ The Slingluff Gallery in October

MFA Painting graduate Shawn Beeks graces Slingluff's white walls.

www.slingluffgallery.com

Moving On @ TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID, Featuring, Timothy Belknap, William Blackhurst, Carolee Schneemann, Curated by Ryan McCartney

Moving On

Timothy Belknap, William Blackhurst, Carolee Schneemann

Curated by Ryan McCartney

September 2 – October 2, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 2011 6pm – 10pm

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its September exhibition, Moving On, featuring the works of Timothy Belknap, William Blackhurst, and Carolee Schneemann.

Moving On presents work from three artists; each dealing intimately with motion, the body, and the relationship between. Whether in object, image, or both, the works in the show treat movement as an integral component in content and in context, rather than as technique or novelty. Each artist subverts expectations of their media, through a variety of means including scale shift, humor, raw experimentation, and the invocation of cultural taboo, in order to ground the viewer in experience- to ground the viewer in the physical, the now of the relationship before them.

Works on view will include experimental animation, kinetic sculpture, and Carolee Schneemann’s 1965 film,“Fuses”.

Tim Belknap is a multimedia artist, living and working in Philadelphia. He has shown extensively, both locally and nationally.

William Blackhurst is an animator and a painter, currently residing in London, UK. This is his first gallery exhibit.

Carolee Schneemann is a world renowned, groundbreaking artist who has influenced generations of fellow artists.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EXHIBITION CONTAINS SEXUAL MATERIAL NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

Moving On

Tim Belknap, William Blackhurst, Carolee Schneemann

curated by Ryan McCartney

July 8 – 31, 2011

TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID
319A North 11th Street 2H
Philadelphia, PA 19107
http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com

Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 2011 6pm – 10pm

Press: http://www.title-magazine.com/2011/09/moving-on/

Friday, August 5 - 28, 2011 @ TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID

Tracy Thomason:

Highlights, Low Fades, and Deep Cuts

August 5 - 28, 2011

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to

announce the opening of its August exhibition, Highlights,

Low Fades, and Deep Cuts, a solo exhibition of recent works

by Tracy Thomason. 

Thomasonʼs work employs conventional

painting and sculptural materials along with personal

materials and actions – a deconstructed leather glove, hair

gel, temperance, self-tanner, tears, oil, paper clay, and canvas are among the materials in her

studio arsenal. Expertly manipulated, these materials yield work that is wildly tactile, is evocative

of an intersection between aggression and decoration, embodies gendered beauty rituals of

transformation, and highlights a tenuous balance between improvisation and careful

composition.

The showʼs essayist, Melissa Giannini, notes:

Tracy Thomasonʼs work stirs an impulse to touch, try on, wrap oneself up inside the history of

her chosen (often donated and/or recycled) materials, evoking sunny afternoons spent rifling

through a rack of threadbare jeans and faded leather jackets at a thrift store, a faint pencil mark

waiting to be brushed away like a stray hair off a loverʼs shoulder. Actual hair drapes from

abstract canvases like a lowered false eyelash or Amish-style beard. A chunk of alabaster glows

with the embarrassed blush of expertly applied rouge. Splotches of hair gel blot a stretched

canvas like sex. A felted and dyed yoga mat is infused with a sense of abandoned (or

repurposed) idealism. Simply put, her pieces speak for themselves.

About the artist:

Tracy Thomason was born in Gaithersburg, Maryland and currently lives and works in Brooklyn,

New York. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, recently with James Fuentes

Gallery in New York, NY, Nudashank in Baltimore, MD, and Second Home Projects in Berlin.

She received her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 2008 and her

BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2006. She has given lectures at

Cranbrook Academy of Art and the University of Knoxville, TN. Tracy is a fourth generation

female artist.

Tracy Thomason: Highlights, Low Fades, and Deep Cuts

August 5-28, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 2011, 6pm-10pm

Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2H
Philadelphia PA 19107
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment
http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Rebekah Templeton, Grizzly Grizzly, & Marginal Utility are Having a Group Exhibition! Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6pm-10pm

Please join:
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Rebekah Templeton, Grizzly Grizzly, & Marginal Utility for a Group Exhibition!
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6pm-10pm

Our galleries are a labor of love and our involvement and commitment to them runs concurrently with our commitments to studio and curatorial practices.
We want to show you what we’ve been up to!

NO IDLE HANDS

Crane Arts LLC
SUITE 102
1400 N American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803

Opening Reception 6pm-10pm
Other visits by appointment only:
PHONE: (484)-469-0319
EMAIL: TigerStrikesAsteroid@gmail.com

"Best Art Opening Ever"???

That will teach me to stay home...

See the artblog piece on Young Country and Cosmic Bodies for more...

PROOF OF MY UNKNOWING EYES: Amy Beecher / Susan Bricker @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Proof of My Unknowing Eyes 
July 8 – 31, 2011

Essay by Jeffrey Scott Matthews
Essay by Mathew Schneier

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to
announce the opening of its July exhibition, Proof of My
Unknowing Eyes, featuring the works of Susan Bricker
and Amy Beecher. 

The showʼs essayist, Jeffrey Scott Mathews, notes:

In the work of Amy Beecher and Susan Bricker, we are presented with visual criteria establishing both presence and absence in the material and in the immaterial. In both of the artistsʼ work, there is a manipulation of paint, yet there exists an elusive and supernatural component to the work that suggests a tenuous relationship with the traditional or fundamentalist modes of abstraction and representation.

About the artists:

Amy Beecher received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and her BA,Visual Art with Honors, Brown University, Providence, RI. She has exhibited and curated widely in the United States and currently resides in New York City. A portion of Amy Beecher's work for this exhibition was expertly printed by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

Susan Bricker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA in Painting, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA in Painting at San Francisco Art Institute. Bricker also has a BA in Psychology from The University of Oregon. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad recently at Mixed Greens, New York, NY and Second Home Projects, Berlin, Germany 

Proof of My Unknowing Eyes
Amy Beecher / Susan Bricker 
July 8 – 31, 2011

TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID
319A North 11th Street 2H
Philadelphia, PA 19107
http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com
Opening Reception: Friday, July 8, 2011 6pm – 10pm

Please help support our “Kickstarter” Project We have until July 12, 2011!!!!
To make a donation please visit our project page: Tiger Strikes Asteroid Moves and Expands! 
URL is: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2082312048/tiger-strikes-asteroid-moves-and-expands

Come out and see Summer Above at TSA - We’re Open This weekend!

Essay By Wallace Whitney
Come out and see Summer Above at TSA 
-We're open this weekend!
While you're at it, please think about donating to our Kickstarter project!
We have 31 days left and we are 74% to our goal- get some great rewards for donating!
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Please consider helping us by donating your Facebook status and sharing our project with your
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Thanks so much for your help and consideration.
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2H
Philadelphia PA 19107
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment
http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

- Terri Saulin for Tiger Strikes Asteroid
terrisaulin.com

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Big Grant Op for New Jersey Resident! Be well ya'll!

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Launches Kickstarter!

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is Moving!

ONE NIGHT MEMBERS SHOW

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is excited to announce it is moving! Since it opened in 2009, the gallery has been housed on the 4th floor of 319A North 11th Street. Beginning in May of 2011, we will be housed in a beautiful new space on the 2nd floor of the same building, home to Grizzly Grizzly, Marginal Utility and
others.

Our new home will be unit number 2H. In advance of this move we will be having a one night only show of all Tiger Strikes Asteroid members on April the 15th in our new space and a special mid-month reception for Theresa Saulin's solo show on the 4th floor to coincide with “Gallery Night” in Philadelphia. Both events will take place from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM on the 15th. Looking forward to seeing you there!

For other Tiger Strikes Asteroid updates, check us out on the web at: 

http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Best wishes for a wonderful Spring!

Tiger Strikes Asteroid

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid

319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor (Soon to be on the 2nd Floor!!!!)

Philadelphia PA 19107

Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment

http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Beth Cavener Stichter: UPenn, B1 Meyerson, 6PM Wednesday April 6

Terri Saulin @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, April 1, 2011

Press: Phila Weekly

Catalogue PDF: The Solipsism of an Inverted Cartography by Michael Macfeat

Bill Walton

Fleisher/Ollman is very pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by the late artist Bill Walton. The exhibition will survey Walton's wall and floor works made from a spare vocabulary of basic materials and subtle interventions. These intimate investigations, undertaken during a career spanning more than 40 years, are culled from the artist's Estate and several have been loaned by collectors specifically for the exhibition.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 24 from 6-8pm. 

Bill Walton (1935-2010) was born in Camden, New Jersey and briefly studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago before moving to Philadelphia in 1964 where he was a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-1990). Interested in the materials used for printmaking -- wood, lead, steel -- more than the finished product, Walton began to make sculptures after seeing an exhibition of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had his first exhibition in 1971 and over his long career exhibited in galleries nationally and at a variety of institutions including the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.  His work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Gallery and Wellesley College.