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/