Tiger Strikes Asteroid

PHILADELPHIA Meoto Yunomi December 9 - January 13

NEW YORK &&&2 January 6 - February 18

LOS ANGELES Sara Vanderbeek: ≈≈≈ January 13 - February 4

CHICAGO Kristin Anahit Cass: Traversing Temporalities January 6, 2024 - February 17

GREENVILLE salt lick in the windowsill January 5 - February 17

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Claire Whitehurst, prism (full form), gouache on canvas,  8”x10”

salt lick in the windowsill January 5 - February 17, 2024 Artist Reception: Greenville First Friday, February 2, 6-9p

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) artist collective is excited to present new works by Claire Whitehurst and Taylor Loftin in our next exhibition, salt lick in the windowsill. Composed of recent small paintings and ceramic works, the show explores an interplay of colors, imagery, and forms deeply rooted in the shared Southern experiences of the artists. Raised in Mississippi, the artists weave a collective narrative that serves as a meditation:  a contemplative exploration of the transient beauty and underlying tension inherent in Southern environments. Nature infests, abundantly growing over and hiding the underlying structures of the landscape, similar to the artists’ upbringing navigating social realities. Seeking transcendence, the exhibition presents the South through an otherworldly lens: imposing and beautiful. 

About the Artists

Claire Whitehurst (b. 1991, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a painter, printmaker and ceramic sculptor with a BFA from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from the University of Iowa.  Her work pulls from the landscape and atmosphere of the deep South, exploring queer space, memory and intimacy through color, form, and material. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has been featured in numerous publications including New American Paintings, and Oxford American, and the Graphite Journal in collaboration with the Hammer Museum. Currently, she lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

&&&2 January 6, 2024 – February 18, 2024  Opening Reception: Jan 6, Saturday 6-8PM  A talk with the artists will be scheduled in February

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present &&&2, a bi-coastal exhibition that serves as both a survey and sequel to the collaborations of Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty.

Ten years ago, the artists initiated a series of meetings to talk about materials and techniques, based on their mutual interest in using photographic imagery to destabilize traditional art categories like painting, printmaking and sculpture.

The meetings resulted in an artist’s book titled &&&, in which the three artists imagined themselves as a fictional industrial supply firm. For Greenberger & Greenbaum & Cutler &, the fictional company had a veneer of prestige. For these capitalist outsiders, a corporate symbol of joint commercial enterprise was almost tantamount to success.

The book was released at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair in 2013 in both a mass market paperback and a boxed, limited special edition print series based on swatch sample catalogs. The intention of the project was lost on nearly everyone, but a few key people became aware of the artists’ positioning themselves as a small movement.  This included the photography curator Dan Leers, who organized a show and catalog of their work, Beyond The Surface: Image as Object, at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center in 2014. 

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of &&&, Sun You has invited Greenberger & Greenbaum & Cutler to mount an exhibition at TSA in Brooklyn, NY. There will also be a simultaneous version of the show at Ditch Projects in Springfield, OR.  The exhibitions at both artist-run spaces feature a backdrop that wraps the gallery with deconstructed pages from the original &&& book, over which the artists have installed works from 2013 and 2023.  The original book is also exhibited, as well as a new portfolio of prints (&&&2) to celebrate ten fruitful years of collaboration, hand wringing and friendship 

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. Selected exhibition venues include KANSAS, New York; Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York, Higher Pictures, New York; New York; Marianne Boesky, New York, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steve Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Michael Jon & Alan, Miami, The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City and Stems Gallery, Brussels. Recent projects include a solo presentation with Lyles & King and solo exhibitions at Galerie Pact, Paris and Super Dakota, Brussels.

His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, ArtReview and Interview Magazine, among others. Ethan is a co-founder and editor of thehighlights.org and his writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Wax Magazine, BOMB, Paper Monument and others. He has also curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions at venues including The Suburban, Chicago; Lyles & King, New York and Super Dakota, Brussels. Greenbaum is the recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the Silver Art Residency, The Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne’s Workspace Residency, LMCC’s Workspace Program, The Robert Blackburn SIP Fellowship, The Socrates EAF Fellowship, The Edward Albee Foundation Residency and The Barry Schactman Painting Prize. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.

David Kennedy Cutler is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Cutler received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Essex Flowers, New York; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia and Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany. Cutler has performed in various spaces in New York including Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Essex Flowers, Printed Matter, Halsey McKay, Derek Eller Gallery, and Flag Art Foundation, and internationally at the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, among others. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College and The RISD Museum, and his artist’s books are included in the libraries of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker and Modern Painter, among others. Cutler is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, NY and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton. 

Sara Greenberger Rafferty produces image-based works in paper, plastic, glass, metal, fabric, and video. Her work is driven by an ongoing examination of contemporary and mid-20th century visual culture and considers the ever-changing implications for photographic images in the digital era. She’s also into comedy. 

Kristin Anahit Cass: Traversing Temporalities January 6, 2024 to February 17, 2024 Opening Reception: January 6, 2024  1pm to 4pm

Coffee Divination Workshop Armenian Coffee Reading: a sweet treat and your future in a cup. Saturday, February 3, 2024, 1pm to 4pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is pleased to present Traversing Temporalities, a solo exhibition of work by Kristin Anahit Cass. The show explores ideas of SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) futurism through a body of work including photography, video, sculpture, and installation. For viewers, her work offers meditations on time, memory, and futurity. The altar offers an opportunity for visitors to express their own wishes for a better future in communion with the hopes of the subjects portrayed in Cass’s portraits, while experiencing the multiple temporalities of the divination ritual portrayed in the video. The practices of divination, use of amulets, and women’s hand works that are common across many cultures as spiritual practices offer visitors a portal through which to access their own ancestral cultural practices.

Cass began the project in 2012 in contemplation of the 2015 centennial remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. As a descendant of genocide survivors, her family faced the conflicts of living in diaspora and wondering what their lives would have been if indigenous Armenian and other minority populations had not been subjected to genocide and exile. Drawing on her experience as a queer, mixed-ethnicity, diasporan American, Cass’s work occupies multiple temporalities, disorienting time and space as the subjects take control of their own narratives, It embodies past, present, and future at once, much as SWANA ancestral divination practices harness a nonlinear understanding of time, and simultaneous occupation of spaces. 

The work in this exhibition uses historical motifs, objects, rituals and places to anchor visions of the future in SWANA ancestral cultures. The portraits featured are complex digital collages of the people, places, and objects that are part of both a shared culture and diversity. Her engagement with her subjects to create a shared vision shows that through art we create images that order our world, both reflecting and constructing our reality. So, through images we may also begin to imagine and construct different futures for ourselves.

Artist Biography: 

Kristin Anahit Cass is an artist working in photography, video, writing, sculpture and other media.  Cass’s work imagines the future, touches the past, and envisions a better world.  As Tamar Boyadjian noted in Hyperallergic, Cass’s work “recognizes the lived experience of trauma, yet owns the ability of humans to individually and collectively reframe that experience in their hearts to make way for reparations.” In addition to her arts education, Cass has worked with women and minority owned businesses, artists, and nonprofits in her  career as a lawyer.   She is one of the founders of the LGBTQ platform Entanik (Family) where she is active in supporting creatives in the global community.

Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Reparations of the Heart at the Stamelos Gallery Center at the University of Michigan, Witness: The Artist's Response at Elephant Room Gallery in Chicago, Chicago Neighborhoods at the Hairpin Gallery in Chicago and SLAYSIAN 2.0 at Co-Prosperity in Chicago. Her Borderlands Under Fire project was a finalist for the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Cass is a graduate of the University of Chicago. 

Curator Bio:

Cydney M. Lewis, is a Chicago-based multimedia artist with a multi-disciplinary and distinguished background.Her work delves into material manipulation, drawing her viewers into a realm of visual archaeology. Lewis intricately weaves the natural, spiritual, and scientific, observing nature's resilience and our potential for harmonious existence. Her art is held in private collections around the world, and has been exhibited widely, including most recently in the Satellite Art Fair at Art Basel in Miami, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, National Museum in Berlin and the Hyde Park Art Center.  Lewis' foundation lies in architecture, holding a degree from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and studied at  L'ecole D'architecture des Versailles, France.  Recognitions encompass residencies at Chicago Public Schools, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Lyseloth Musikerwohnhaus in Basel, Switzerland.

Sara Vanderbeek: ≈≈≈ Jan 13 - Feb 4, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 13, 2024 7-10 pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is thrilled to present ≈≈≈, the first solo presentation of Sara Vanderbeek’s work in Los Angeles. Vanderbeek’s large-scale dyed paintings on fabric pay homage to the material practices of domestic crafts and the feminist lineage of figuration. While her paintings explore universal themes such as violence, climate crisis, and gender oppression, they also reflect Vanderbeek's personal experience as a pregnant, middle-aged woman living in Texas. Shifting through powerful feelings of witnessed social injustices, she maintains hope for humanity through compassion, connection, and play.

For the exhibition, Vanderbeek has created a labyrinthine installation of suspended paintings that ricochet between contrasting states of being: sadness and joy, nightmares and dreams, anxiety and serenity, life and death. Rendered in vivid colors and bold line work, Vanderbeek playfully casts herself alongside an ensemble of characters and symbols in various scenarios. Vanderbeek’s installation allows the viewers’ presence and imagination to wander with her through the tender and tenuous life cycles amidst a seemingly imminent global collapse.

Sara Vanderbeek is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and advocate based in Austin, TX. Her work responds to place, politics, motherhood, mental illness, and trauma. Her work has been shown at venues nationally, including The Contemporary Austin TX; Deitch Projects NY, among others. Vanderbeek is the Co-founding Executive Director & Curator at DORF, an artist-run experimental contemporary art gallery that provides space for artists and advocacy initiatives. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Austin Economic Development Department, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and was a finalist for the 2022 Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program. She received her BFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design.

TSA STAR 2023 Artist-In-Residence: GOODW.Y.N. November 27 – December 27, 2023 Panel Discussion: December 9, 5:30pm EST

Meoto Yunomi December 9, 2023 - January 13, 2024 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia

2nd Thursday Receptions: December 14th, 2023 January 11, 2024

Closing Reception - Soup’s On / empty cup / bowl January 13, 3-6 p.m. @TSAPhilly - All are Welcome Give a $20.00 donation and visitors will receive one surprise cup/bowl. Surprise Cup Package Limited to 50 people

Proceeds split between The Mazzoni Center & WIlliam Way

[Catalog of Works]

A “yunomi” is a handle-less Japanese teacup used for daily tea drinking. The tradition of making Yunomi has evolved since its conception in the 16th century and contemporary artists have expanded on the variety of styles and shapes, departing from the traditional footed, cylindrical style.

Artist/Curator Terri Saulin sent out invitations to a select group of artists during 2023’s Pride Month to honor our LGBTQA+ friends. Using “Meoto Yunomi '' as a vehicle to challenge heteronormative power dynamics, artists were asked to create two cups that absolutely have to be together…. or not.

“Meoto Yunomi” are often given as wedding gifts in Japan, the larger cup symbolizes the 'husband' and the smaller cup the 'wife.’ Traditional partnering ideas are firmly rooted in misogyny and oppression, a system that denies power to women and overall devalues effeminacy or anything viewed as submissive, diminutive. Why not find value in powerlessness? Tradition is tricky. Sometimes the wife is taller than the husband, sometimes the Mx’s are the same size. Sometimes, one feels they must stand alone. Why not decide to stick with love?

I began my love affair with clay circa 1990, after a long and loving relationship with Printmaking, as a student at Moore College of Art & Design. In a few years, I wanted to go to graduate school and continue teaching full time. In preparation I bought a subscription to Ceramics monthly and started taking classes at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. In 1997, David Gary Wright wrote an article called “The Provocative Cup.” The article hit deep and immediately became part of my teaching practice.

In the article, Wright shares several experiences of how magical and compelling a cup can be. The encounter that resonated with me was with a cup by Clay Mobile Founder Kathryn Narrow. Wright talks about a time in his life when he was traveling, feeling remote and lonely. He visited a craft shop and found a cup made by his old friend Kathryn. Feeling the cup in his hands brought back the sweet, warm memory of being safely back at home. Wright describes this revelation as experiencing “…a profound emotional and spiritual connection between Kathryn (the maker), the earth and myself. Looking back at that moment later, I realized that the cup is clearly the most intimate, timeless, useful pot; it is the one pottery form that transcends time, culture, class and tradition. That encounter with Kathryn's cup marks the first time I recall a pot having had that effect on me. I soon came to the realization that pots can have a powerful emotional impact on potters and patrons alike. Making and using pots helps keep us all closer to those things that are "real" and important in this world.”

Each time I return to this article, I remember the loneliness and fear I experienced when I went back to Grad school and took some life changing risks, from partnered to single to married to single. The moment I began my relationship with The Clay Studio I felt the same wash of safety and comfort. Kathrn Narrow sold me my first bag of clay. I still have a few awkward forms made from that earth and I just can’t part with them. As soon as I was able, I purchased one of Katherine’s cups. A gorgeous porcelain round, on a high foot, blue green, pregnant bud, with a hint of yellow. Imagine drinking from an almost open magnolia blossom, cupped between two hands. I was hooked. I began a life of stewardship, adding special new friends as often as I could. If I had the fortune of selling a piece, the gift came back in another treasured cup for the collection. Then the internet happened… and I acquired an “Accidental Meoto Yunomi.” Mimi Logothetis and Harris Deller got married, well, the cups did. Guess who is taller?

All proceeds from Workshops, Tea and Wine Sales and IG Auctions will be split between The Mazzoni Center & WIlliams Way

No. 5 Butchie Alley - 12/02/2023 - 02/03/2024 Opening Reception - December 2, 6-9 p.m. Featuring live music w/ J Strings - Tea Sale

Closing Reception - February 3, 6-9 p.m. Open to all - Soup & Mulled Wine - Register for $20.00 in the shop & receive a surprise cup or bowl when you visit February 3rd Closing Reception. Limited to 50 people. Ceramics Workshops / TBA

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia - 12/09/2023 - 01/13/2024 2nd Thursday Reception - 12/14/23 Teasale 2nd Thursday Reception - 1/11/24 Teasale

Closing Reception - Soup sale/empty cup/bowl January 13, 3-6 p.m. Open to all - Soup & Mulled Wine - Register for $20.00 in the shop & receive a surprise cup or bowl when you visit February 3rd Closing Reception. Limited to 50 people.

Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo: That Which We Fear, That Which We Love December 2 - 17, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2nd 7-10pm

“To speak to the core that creates and swallows, to speak not always to what’s shouting, but to what’s underneath asking for nothing. I am at the mouth of the cave. I am willing to crawl.” - Ada Limón

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is thrilled to present That Which We Fear, That Which We Love, the first solo presentation of Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo’s work in Los Angeles. Selected from a group of more than four hundred applicants who applied for the 2023 Los Angeles Open Call, Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo’s work is a testament to the strength and vitality of contemporary artists working today, not only in major art centers like Los Angeles and New York, but in other parts of the US like Memphis, Tennessee where Cornejo is currently based.

Cornejo’s work confronts us with a world both alien and familiar, scientific in appearance yet mythological in character. In the artist’s words “That Which We Fear, That Which We Love presents observations of human time from the perspective of serpentine figures from Latin American myth, dwelling within a liminal space at the center of the Earth.” Utilizing a range of traditional and non-traditional media to create drawings, sculptures, textiles, and installations, Cornejo explores the possibilities within hybridity as a way to respond to the “troubled present in the wake of humanity’s destructive path.” Cornejo’s work weaves a beautiful alternative vision of hybrid life; a vision that challenges the current inclination toward an Anthropocene view of the world, perhaps indicating a shift to what the artist calls a “chimeric future” enhanced by technology.

For the exhibition the artist has created a series of site specific mixed-media sculptural works and drawings laser-cut into mirror. The work draws on a rich range of found and repurposed materials that includes organic and geological artifacts that speak to the hybridity and alchemical transformation at the core of Cornejo’s work.

Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo is a Peruvian-American interdisciplinary artist based in Memphis, TN. Her work has been shown at The Mint Museum (NC), Duke University (NC), Crosstown Arts (TN), Field Projects (NY), and Antenna (LA), among others, and was most recently included in the statewide Tennessee Triennial. She has been awarded residencies at Crosstown Arts and the McColl Center, and received the Current Art Fund Grant (2021), Tennessee State Fellowship (2022), and was the finalist for the 2022 Southern Prize. She received her MFA in interdisciplinary studio from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BA in Studio Art and English Literature from Davidson College.

Seeing the Anthropocene curated by Julia Clift

On view: October 28-December 2, 2023, simultaneously at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia

Opening Receptions: November 4th, 5-8 PM at Cherry Street Pier, with a live performance at 6 PM, and November 9th, 6-9 PM at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Artists and Collaborations: Austen Camille (with music by ENAensemble) | Lydia Cheshewalla | Matthew Colaizzo | Christopher McNulty | Ana Mosquera | Hui-Ying Tsai | Hui-Ying Tsai in collaboration with Jonathan Grover | Byron Wolfe | The Immersion Project: Austen Camille, Erik Cordes, Ph.D., Samantha Joye, Ph.D., Malte Leander, Christine Lee, and Rebecca Rutstein

Seeing the Anthropocene (StA) is a cross-venue exhibition curated by Philadelphia-based artist Julia Clift, featuring diverse artists and collaborative groups contending with the global climate crisis and other urgent environmental issues. Through wide-ranging media, the included artworks foster understanding of the moment we're in, inspire personal connections with the natural world, and imagine different potential futures depending on how we act today. The show features artists from across the country as well as international perspectives.  

Several artworks in StA shed light on the policies, conventions, and attitudes that led to the climate crisis and continue to sustain it today. Large-scale pieces by Matthew Colaizzo and Christopher McNulty document commonplace pollution and extractive industry in America, while smaller works by both artists subtly critique human efforts to dominate the natural world. In their own ways, Colaizzo and McNulty interrogate Modern ideals of “progress” that often underpin environmental destruction.

Byron Wolfe's Vanished Volcano Visualization Kit offers maps and models to help audience members envision Mount Tehama, an ancient volcano in Northern California that's almost entirely disappeared over the past 400,000 years due to natural erosion. The kit evokes the difficulty of processing environmental losses and imagining what once was, mental tasks required for contending with present-day issues like climate change and mass extinction. While Wolfe endeavors to see the distant past, Ana Mosquera envisions a dystopic climate future. Her Breathing Exchange Temporium, a woefully dysfunctional life raft and oxygen tank, forebodes mass climate migration and encapsulates life's precarity on a hotter planet, especially for those less privileged. 

A highlight of the exhibition is the first prototype of The Immersion Project, a collaboration between Austen Camille, Christine Lee, Rebecca Rutstein, Malte Leander, and oceanographers Erik Cordes, Ph.D. and Samantha Joye, Ph.D that incorporates large-scale coral-inspired sculptures, augmented reality animation and sound into a multi-sensory installation to educate the public about deep sea ecosystems. After a national exhibition tour, the sculptures will be installed in the Gulf of Mexico to help restore coral habitats damaged by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in 2010. The project demonstrates one way that artists can contribute to climate solutions.

All of the artworks mentioned thus far will be on view at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Two miles south of the gallery, at Cherry Street Pier, works by Lydia Cheshewalla, Hui-Ying Tsai, and Austen Camille encourage personal connection to the natural world and help audience members to see themselves as part of nature rather than above it. Such perspective can be a wellspring for environmentally-conscious action. Notably, Camille's large-scale augmented reality animation over the Delaware River, featuring music by Philadelphia's ENAensemble, will incorporate a live performance during the show's opening reception at Cherry Street Pier, on November 4th at 6 PM. At Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Camille’s AR animation within The Immersion Project and a second piece by Tsai—a collaboration with sound artist Jonathan Grover—tie the two venues together and bring notes of hope to the gallery.

Karolina Majewska Freeing, Bed (detail), Wax, cotton sheets, mattress, Dimensions variable, 2020-2022

Embody Oct 21 - Nov 12, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 21, 7-10 pm 

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is proud to present Embody, a three-person exhibition showcasing diverse approaches to relating to memories of the past in the present. The exhibition features a curated selection of works by Polish artists Patrycja Kurus-Rosłoniec, Karolina Lizurej, and Karolina Majewska Freeing. These artists create visual representations that articulate their individual statements, stories, and ideas, offering unique reflections on the past.

Karolina Majewska Freeing's works act as metaphors for the tumultuous events spanning 2020 to 2022, highlighting the vulnerability of the human form. She crafts intimate, flawed sculptural self-portraits that, in their fragmented and fragile state, evoke a sense of bodily violation. Simultaneously, the act of casting her own form provides Majewska Freeing with the opportunity for introspection and acceptance of her physical mortality.

Karolina Lizurej delves into the complex collective memory surrounding the Warsaw Uprising in German-occupied Warsaw—a period marked by both heroism and tragedy. Her work captures the duality of grand historical narratives and intimate personal stories. Lizurej employs the medium of embroidered drawings, drawing inspiration from vintage photographs. The forms within her compositions are in a state of perpetual flux, materializing only to dissolve again. These elusive shapes never fully reveal themselves, lingering instead in a blurred state, much like the ephemeral traces of memory.

Patrycja Kurus-Rosłoniec engages deeply with the indelible imprints that past events can leave on one's current reality. She explores the emotional landscape marked by anxiety and inertia, capturing the sense of helplessness and abandonment that can ensue. Through the lens of her own experiences, which she openly shares, Kurus-Rosłoniec shines a spotlight on the often-overlooked and concealed mental struggles that individuals may grapple with in society.

Patrycja Kurus-Rosłoniec is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (2015), where she studied under Professor Wojciech Cieśniewski. She also completed her studies at the Bernard Morando School of Fine Arts in Zamość. She currently resides and works in Warsaw.

Kurus-Rosłoniec's art serves as a ritual for taming anxiety and an attempt to transcend experiences associated with it. Her paintings depict the obstacles that stand in the way of overcoming unease: endless staircases, confinement within four walls, the inability to step outside one's comfort zone, and the lack of connection with others. Simultaneously, she seeks to uncover the hidden hope within these challenges. Patrycja Kurus-Rosłoniec has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both Poland and Austria.

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Karolina Lizurej - D.F.A., is an alumna of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she earned degrees from both the Faculty of Painting (2014) and the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art (2018). She currently holds a position as an Assistant Professor in the Artistic Fabric Department at the same institution.

In her artistic oeuvre, Lizurej employs fabric as her canvas and thread as her pencil. Through meticulous hand-embroidered lines and traces, she constructs both form and space, weaving narratives of the past. Her work delves into themes of identity, exploring the roles that memory, history, tradition, and art play in shaping it. By utilizing embroidery, she invokes traditional feminine techniques, thereby accentuating the facets of femininity and the importance of feminist discourse in contemporary art narratives.

Karolina Lizurej has been honored with numerous awards and scholarships. Her work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Sweden, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, and Indonesia.

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Karolina Majewska Freeing is a Warsaw-based visual artist with an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2017), as well as an MFA in Painting from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (2014). Majewska Freeing's recent oeuvre delves into the organic fragility of the human form, with a focus on exploring themes of objectification and repression within the 'politics of the human body.'

Her installations incorporate natural elements like wax, wood, and clay to further emphasize the organic qualities she seeks to explore. Majewska Freeing's work has been exhibited across a range of international venues, including the United States, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Austria, Cyprus, Switzerland, and her native Poland. She has also contributed to academic and artistic dialogues through her participation in conferences and talks, such as Manifesta 12; Rixc, Art and Science Festival, the Open Field Conference, among others.

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Eusung Lee: Epitaphs October 21, 2023 – November 19, 2023  Opening Reception: October 21, Saturday 6-8PM  Special Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun 1-6pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, in collaboration with DOOSAN Art Center, is thrilled to present Epitaphs, the inaugural solo exhibition in New York by the critically acclaimed South Korean sculptor Eusung Lee.  

This exhibition is a part of DOOSAN International Program, designed to expand the global reach of contemporary Korean art through partnerships with Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York. 

In Epitaphs, Lee will showcase a series of sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs that evoke a strong sense of bodily presence and narrative possibilities. 

In today's rapidly digitizing world, where the boundary between the virtual and the tangible often blurs, Lee remains dedicated to the richness of physical space and the sensory experiences offered by handcrafted materials. She embraces the classical lineage and tactile qualities inherent to sculpture, seamlessly melding an array of media, including wood, clay, metal, paper, fabric, yarn, and ready-made objects. 

Doodled Kouros (2021), a large wooden panel, alludes to the iconic Ancient Greek sculptures of nude male youths. Lee stumbled upon the slab of wood in a carpenter's shop where it was originally intended to become a table. Recognizing its latent potential, Lee worked with the panel's inherent characteristics and contours, inscribing the wood grain with marks that alternated between random and intricate. Her carvings included low relief coffee cups, butterflies, and flowering plants—motifs that recur throughout her work and are both universally familiar and deeply personal. 

Colloquial Falling (2021-2023) represents a fusion of intersecting forms, reminiscent of both butterflies and human spines. Like much of Lee’s oeuvre, this sculpture engages in an intricate interplay between brutality and care. Delicate insect forms emerge from roughly modeled aluminum, carefully cloaked in knit wool. Within this juxtaposition of warmth and cold, the human and the otherworldly coexist in an intuitively balanced composition. 

Pierce, Jane (2019) features an oversized, wall-mounted wooden ear meticulously punctuated by an array of metal earrings and hoops. The name 'Jane' alludes to both the artist's elder sister, who emigrated to the United States long ago, and the enigmatic “Jane Doe”—the term given to an unidentified woman. The ear's form is based on Lee’s fascination with her older sister's pierced ears. Piercing was a rarity in South Korea at the time and became a source of fascination for the artist, symbolizing the unfamiliar, exotic, and dangerous facets of American culture. The ear, while serving as a monument to her sister, also represents the artist as a listener—open to new possibilities and eager to connect. 

Eusung Lee (b. 1989) is a visual artist currently living and working in Seoul, South Korea. She holds a BFA from Hongik University and an MFA from Korean National University of Art. Lee has exhibited her work in many museums and art centers, including Art Sonje Center, Hite Collection, WESS, Art Space Boan, Space Catalog. Lee was also a resident artist at Seoul Metropolitan Nanji Art Studio and was selected as a Chanel x Frieze "Now & Next" artist in 2022 and awarded Emerging Artist of 2023 from Seoul Museum of Art. 

DOOSAN Art Center, based in Seoul and established in 2007, stands as one of South Korea's foremost nonprofit institutions. It actively supports emerging artists and curators through a range of domestic and international programs. In 2023, DOOSAN aims to enhance its global presence by expanding and strengthening its collaborative projects with Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Christopher Y. Lew. DOOSAN International Program encompasses both residencies and exhibitions, fostering growth through partnerships with influential local institutions and experts. 

Bryana Bibbs, 7-7-23, 2023. Polaroid (left), Journal Series weaving 7.9.23–7.10.23.1, 2023. Handwoven fungi and bark given to me by CP, hand-spinning demo yarn bundle, and hand-carded, hand-spun wool, created in West Paris, ME; 12 x 14 inches (right).

Bryana Bibbs: Places (Edition I) October 14 - November 18, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14, from 1-4 pm

The We Were Never Alone Project weaving workshop: Sunday, November 5th from 1 pm - 4pm

***Please see below for information on how to rsvp to take part in the workshop

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is pleased to present Places (Edition I), a solo exhibition of select “Journal Series” weavings and Polaroid photos by Bryana Bibbs. The exhibition is curated by Debra Kayes, TSA CHI member and co-director.

The works in this exhibition were made between 2022 and 2023, during Bibbs’s travels driving from Chicago to Maine and Tennessee for residencies, work, and vacation. In her ongoing “Journal Series” weavings, Bibbs intuitively documents her personal experience using materials, colors, and textures. She makes her yarn using the traditional textile techniques of hand-carding and hand-spinning before hand-weaving them on her frame loom, and she incorporates collected found objects. In the works on view, Bibbs also includes objects that have been given to her, including fungi, shells, pine needles, and more. Bibbs has been steadily building an archive of Polaroids that share evidence of her process and her travels. This exhibition is the first time she will exhibit these documentary materials alongside the weavings they index.

The 2022 works in this exhibition were made possible thanks to the Lunder Institute for American Art and Surf Point Foundation.

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The We Were Never Alone Project Information:

The We Were Never Alone Project is a weaving workshop for victims and survivors of domestic violence hosted by artist Bryana Bibbs.

In these free and limited-participant workshops, participants will be able to share their stories while creating art through the practice of hand-weaving. The workshop will provide participants with materials such as yarn, weaving needles, and cardboard looms. However, participants are encouraged to bring experimental materials (such as plastic bags, tees, ties, jeans, scarves, old denim, etc.) to weave. No weaving experience is necessary to participate in these workshops. There are six spots available.

Please RSVP with the provided link for the Sunday, November 5th 1 pm–4pm workshop. Those that sign up will receive a confirmation or waitlist email within 24–48 hours.

Please RSVP here.

Artist Biography:

Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who works at the intersection of textiles, painting, and community-based practices. Bibbs earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of “The We Were Never Alone Project—A Weaving Workshop for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence” (thewewereneveraloneproject.com), and she serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee. 

Carousel September 16, 2023 – October 15, 2023 Opening reception: September 16, 2023, 5-7pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is proud to present Carousel, a solo exhibition by Henri Paul Broyard, curated by Yael Eban. For over a decade, Broyard's practice has examined domestic spaces and the perception and history of mark making. He uses a range of imagery to create his work, often using his own images, collected snapshot photographs, and his personal memories as source material. The artist’s interest in the vernacular is also apparent in the show’s title—Carousel references a slide projector of photos, as well as the colorful, kitschy opulence of an amusement park.

Carousel marks the first occasion the artist will reveal a glimpse behind the studio curtain by presenting a collection of canvas palettes alongside two of his signature interior paintings. Broyard uses handheld canvases as palettes while working on multiple paintings at once. He uses the palettes not only to mix colors, but to test brushes, marks, and textures that are eventually applied to the larger paintings. When a palette is nearly finished, he turns his attention towards it, perhaps adding a final mark before retiring it. At this point the palette is signed and dated with a location on the verso and stored away. When this occurs, the palette transforms from an object of utility into a record of experimentation. In a way Broyard is creating a diaristic archive of palettes that mirrors the extensive archive of photos and objects he has collected for inspiration.  

While his signature paintings flirt with abstraction within a restrained, matter-of-fact framework, in the palettes Broyard is allowing himself the freedom to push each canvas to its limit. Given how integral mark making is to his work—either his own marks or those he encounters in the world—this is a unique and added layer in understanding his art practice as a whole. 

Broyard will simultaneously present a solo exhibition, Piebald, at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine, from September 8 – October 28. 

Henri Paul Broyard (b. Los Angeles, California) received a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from the California College of the Arts in 2013. He attended the Klasse Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, in 2014. Broyard has had solo exhibitions at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine and Foreland in Catskill, New York. Broyard’s work has been included in group exhibitions at venues including: Deli Gallery, New York; Alexander Gray Gallery, New York and Germantown; Essex Flowers, New York; Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York; SOLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles; the School of Painting Hangzhou, China; Tom Dick or Harry, Dusseldorf; 41 Cooper Square Gallery, New York; Haphazard Gallery, Los Angeles; and 119 Essex Street, New York, amongst others. His work has been the subject of reviews and publications in ArtNews, the Portland Press Herald, and The Rib. Broyard lives and works in Brooklyn and Canaan, New York.

Martin’s End Ryan Scails & Andre Yvon Curated by Curatorial Fellow Charlotte G. Chin Greene September 14 - October 21, 2023 Opening Reception: September 14, 6-9pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to present Martin’s End, an exhibition of work by Ryan Scails and Andre Yvon that ponders image-making in the wake of the 2016 election and growth of generative artificial intelligence. Working with opacity, structure, and density, Scails and Yvon critique the primacy of technological frames in the perception and construction of engineered things. Elements of control and hyper-reality meet in the multi-layered airbrush paintings of Yvon and Scails’s rendered drawings and fiber-based sculptures. Yvon elaborates their deconstructive manual technique within a range of source images, such as lawn grass, spiderwebs, an orchid, and a mugshot of NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who served a prison sentence for leaking an intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. Engaging the act of looking through exacting renderings of speculative technical objects and “anti-exposure units,” Scails’s modular soft sculptures resist institutional imposition at their seams. His dye bath carriers invite the viewer to consider life in a world without industrially-manufactured colors, a ready-to-hand proposal for a provisional, survivable future, beyond images. The work of both artists opens discussion around what 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger deemed “the end of philosophy” - namely, the cybernetic quality of research that measures, analyzes, and modifies the physical and social world. What do images initiate? Where do they end?

Cynthia Luján & Jorge Mujica Life Affirming Moments: En Route September 16 - October 8, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 16 7-10pm

SUR:biennial in association with Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present Life Affirming Moments: En Route, a two-person art exhibition featuring individual and collaborative work by Cynthia Luján and Jorge Mujica. Having successfully worked together on past endeavors, the artists made the decision to embark on a 3-month creative process in what the two describe as a “contemplative exploration of life's pathways.” For the current exhibition, the artists draw inspiration from materials and imagery associated with transportation (recurrent motifs in Lujan’s oeuvre) to construct and activate a metaphorical journey of introspection. Through a fusion of each artists' aesthetics and thoughtfully coordinated 2 and 3 dimensional interventions, the gallery space unfolds like a meandering path, inviting viewers to pause and reflect. Guided by familiar visual cues found in everyday human movement, these pauses offer a serene interplay between individual and collaborative artworks.

For Luján, objects found in public spaces (traffic cones, chain-link fences, painted street lanes, chevrons, signage, cement, asphalt, brick, grass, etc.) serve as surrogates of power as she repurposes and subverts these symbols in an effort to reveal the constrictive fabric of American social architecture. 

Mujica’s contributions for this exhibition represent an evolution of his rigorous and longstanding engagement with physical materials. By manipulating flat industrial surfaces, Mujica creates freestanding structures whose carved pathways and varied trenches result in positive and negative spaces that are designed to interfere with viewers’ perceptions. In so doing, Mujica beckons visitors to contemplate the interplay between real space and the painted surface, and the physiological and psychological effects the objects provoke as they navigate through the exhibition space. 

By collectively orchestrating these moments, Luján and Mujica have realized an experience and showcase that will hopefully serve as a validation and celebration of each person's unique journey while encouraging introspection and a deeper connection with the artists’ poetic gestures. 

Life Affirming Moments: En Route is part of SUR:biennial 2023 programming. For more info about SUR:biennial please check @surbiennial on Instagram.  

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Cynthia Luján is an artist who works regionally in Southern CA and lives in Unincorporated Los Angeles with a BFA in painting and a minor in Russian language from California State University, Long Beach. Her public murals and other collaborative projects, which can be seen across Southern California, focuses on the mission of creating more access while addressing barriers created through social conditioning. Her most recent public project, “Outside In” (2022), consists of a 24 x 22 foot mixed media mural created for Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA. Her goal is to foster dialogue to create interdependent spaces that prioritize safety, accessibility, and inclusion. Through her work she seeks to create a generative social architecture that fosters fulfillment, empathy & belonging.

Jorge Mujica is the Director of Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space (CACtTUS) and has shown at M+B 22', Ace Hotel 22', Bozo Mag 21', (Los Angeles). Centro Cultural de La Raza 21' (San Diego). Hi-Bye 20', Casa Del Ahuizote 20' (Mexico City). Horse and Pony 18', Copyright 19' (Berlin). And commissioned by the Museum of Latin American Art to create "Long Beach High Five" a public sculpture at Robert E. Gumbiner Park in Long Beach, CA in 2019. He earned an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University 12', MA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 10', and a dual BA in Political Science and Art History from Cal State University Bakersfield 08'.  

Mujica’s designs are realized through a process of rehearsed drawing exercises that combine automatic movements and a choreographed mapping of space resulting in the transformation of flat materials into his singular free-standing painting surfaces. While acknowledging certain conventions of painting as an illusionistic portal on a flat surface, he also embraces the autonomy of the sculptural object that occupies an actual physical space; a duality in Mujica’s work that manifests panoramic ruptures.

Artifacts of Experience September 23 – November 11, 2023

Opening Reception Greenville First Friday 6 - 9pm October 6, 2023

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) artist collective is pleased to present Artifacts of Experience.

We are constantly choosing how to display ourselves to the outside world. These decisions both impact and reflect our identities, making our innermost thoughts, emotions, memories, and experiences perceptible.

Artifacts of Experience is an invitation to consider the tangible representations of personal histories and interior experiences. The exhibition pairs the work of four current Tiger Strikes Asteroid members with artists whose work relates materially, conceptually, or visually.

Anne Wu, Desayuno, machine-pieced, hand-quilted (mixed materials), 10,894 pieces, 73 1/2 x 95 1/4 inches, 2019

Pieced: Peter Allen Hoffmann & Anne Wu Curated by Mary Henderson August 5 - September 9, 2023 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 10, 6 to 9 pm Closing Reception: September 9 at 5pm.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to present Pieced, a two-person show featuring Philadelphia-based painter Peter Allen Hoffmann and New Mexico quilter and interdisciplinary artist, Anne Wu. Pieced will run from August 5 through September 9, 2023, with an artists’ reception on August 10 from 6 to 9 pm, and a closing event on September 9 at 5pm.

The title of the show refers to the American quilting technique that inspires the work of both artists. Hoffmann’s restrained abstraction echoes their symbolic geometry, while Wu’s quilts use the piecing technique as a storytelling vehicle. The work in the show is consciously scaled to the human body – in Hoffmann’s case, to the size of a face, and in Wu’s, to the size of the outstretched form that a quilt is meant to cover. Although a spirit of playfulness pervades both artists’ approaches, inviting viewers to seek patterns and connections through a visual language that calls to mind puzzles and games, their work does not offer easy solutions. It suggests, rather than states; evokes, rather than imitates.

Peter Allen Hoffmannn received his MFA from Hunter College of CUNY in 2005, and his BFA from Bard College in 2001; he has had numerous solo and group shows at Freight+Volume, The Painting Center in NY, Thomas Robertello in Chicago, Fleischer/Ollman Gallery, the Wexford Art Centre in Ireland among many others. He has received awards and travel grants from Hunter College, CUNY and Cow House Studios in Ireland. His work has been reviewed extensively in a variety of national and international art and literary publications, including Art Korea, Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and Useless magazine. He lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Anne Wu, an established artist working out of Northern New Mexico, revisits tradition through a variety of media to create dimensional objects and installations. She creates meaning from a plethora of minute jetsam and flotsam,… and sometimes just jokes.