Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York

Drawing for Sculpture January 8– February 14, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, January 8, 6pm-10pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its first exhibition of 2016, Drawing for Sculpture, a survey of drawings by forty-one sculptors:

Alice Adams, Margery Amdur, Rachel Beach, Charlotte Becket, Sarah Bednarek, Louise Bourgeois, Amy Brener, Amanda Browder, Nicole Cherubini, Lauren Clay, Diana Cooper, Petah Coyne, Joy Curtis, Kate Starbuck Elliot, Stacy Fisher, Martha Friedman, Rachel Higgins, Kristen Jensen, Katy Krantz, Denise Kupferschmidt, Emily Noelle Lambert, Katerina Lanfranco, Fabienne Lasserre, Elisa Lendvay, Jill Levine, Esperanza Mayobre, Shari Mendelson, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Megan Pahmier, Claudia Peña Salinas, Sheila Pepe, Meridith Pingree, Courtney Puckett, Carolyn Salas, Gabriela Salazar, Lisa Schilling, Judith Scott, Michelle Segre, Shinique Smith, Courtney Tramposh, and Eileen Weitzman.

The exhibition is curated by Brooklyn based artist, Courtney Puckett. She writes, “Drawing for Sculpture is an immersive environment; a library of plans, observations, thoughts, doodles, maps. I regard drawing expansively as two-dimensional conceptual support for three-dimensional form. My invitation to the artists assumes drawing plays a role whether major (works in and of themselves) or minor (doodles in sketchbook). These artists opened their studios to me and bravely shared the raw edges of their process, the vulnerability of their ideas, the ‘real’ work behind the work that get’s shown.”

www.rachaelwren.com

Rachael Wren received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the University of Washington.  She has had solo shows at The Painting Center, Schema Projects, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Providence College.  Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the National Academy Museum, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Trestle Gallery, and the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, among many others.  Rachael is the recipient of the Julius Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy Museum and an Aljira Fellowship.  She has been awarded residencies at Chashama North, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Anderson Center, and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Untitled   ink and pencil on paper   8 x 8 inches   2015   $400

christinatenaglia.com

Christina Tenaglia has participated in exhibitions in and around New York, New Jersey and the Hudson Valley. She was a recipient of a 2014 Fellowship in Sculpture from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was awarded the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Arts in 2011. She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in 2012, I-Park Foundation in 2013, and has attended multiple residencies at Catwalk in Catskill, NY. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from Yale University. She lives and works in New Jersey and the Hudson Valley.

Untitled (no. 31)   ink, paint, collage on paper   12 x 16 inches   2013   $450

Untitled  (no. 29)   ink, paint, collage on paper   12 x 16 inches   2013   $450 

www.calebtaylorart.com

Caleb Taylor is a 2010 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellow whose practice freely navigates the disciplines of painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. He is the recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, and has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Urban Culture Project, and Ucross Foundation. His paintings and drawings are published in New American Painting and have been exhibited at numerous venues including the Nerman MoCA, Grand Arts (KC), CUE Art Foundation (NY), and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art. Taylor’s work is collected nationally and is included in the public collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KU Medical Center, and Polsinelli Law Firm (KC).  In addition to his studio practice, Taylor is a founding member of PLUG Projects, a curatorial collaboration that exhibits national artists and is a recipient of a 2011 Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Spencer Museum of Art, and Charlotte Street Foundation.  He resides in Kansas City where he is an Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Foundation Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.

The Soloist (from the Codex Remodeled Series)   decollage of found book pages   14 x 11 inches   2015   $950

\\\\\\\  (from the Codex Remodeled Series) mixed media collage on found  book page   14 x 11 inches   2015   $950

The Proposal (from the Codex Remodeled Series)   collage on found book pages   14 x 11   2015   $950

www.kristasvalbonas.com

Krista Svalbonas is a mixed-media artist based in Chicago. She holds a BFA degree in photography and design from Syracuse University and an interdisciplinary MFA degree in photography, sculpture, and design from SUNY New Paltz. Benefiting from this extensive training in a wide range of media, Svalbonas experiments with traditional materials in unexpected ways. She is heavily influenced by her urban environment and focuses on spatial relationships and architecture when developing abstract pieces and installations.

Svalbonas exhibits throughout the United States, including recent and upcoming solo shows at Space Gallery in Denver and the Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina. She has exhibited at the Dairy Center of the Arts, Colorado; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Matteawan Gallery, Opus Projects, The Painting Center, Trestle Gallery, ISE Cultural Foundation, and BWAC, New York; Watchung Art Center and George Segal Gallery, New Jersey; Monterey Peninsula Art Gallery and Wall Gallery, California; and Tubac Center For The Arts, Arizona. She is in the permanent collection of the Cesis Art Museum in Latvia. Svalbonas is a recipient of a Bemis Fellowship, and of residencies from Cooper Union, Vermont Studio Center, and the New Arts Program. She is currently a lecturer in photography at Columbia College.

Migrants 6   pigment print and collage   14 x 14 inches 2015   $800

jamiesteele.com

Jamie Steele (b. 1985, Atlanta, GA) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Steele is co-Founder of GURL DONT BE DUMB, a Chicago-based collaborative and curatorial project. She obtained her BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in 2007 and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 upon which she received the John Quincy Adams fellowship awarded by Jessica Stockholder. Via photo, video, and sculptural works Steele makes use of neon colors, drag aesthetics, and various feminine accoutrements that are often transformed to the grotesque. Specific actions, sounds, and colors, create a sense of feeling alien in ones own skin. Steele plays with the edges of taste, questions what is proper, and pushes against the symbology of elegance cauterized in her mind by a conservative southern upbringing.

Banana Tree   Photograph   11 x 14 inches   2015   $550

www.elizastamps.com

Eliza Stamps is a visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her artistic practice ranges from drawing to performance, all with an interest in facilitating experiences that allow for introspection and discovery. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally.

Knot Contained   ink on paper   6 x 5.5 inches   2015   $425

Knot Simple   ink on paper   6 x 5.75 inches   2015   $425

caseyjexsmith.com

Casey Jex Smith is an artist that works in drawing, collage, installation, and performance. He creates narratives that exist in the intersection between fantasy-gaming and religious ritual.  He has exhibited at the Drawing Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Lab, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Galerie Polaris, and Nudashank. He received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and fellow artist Amanda Smith and their two children.

Grasping   pen and colored pencil on paper   7.5 x 7.5 inches   2015   $600 

Pinch   pen and watercolor on paper   9 x 9 inches  2015   $800

www.jessicaslaven.com

Can it be a memoir if I have poor memory?  Or if it’s written entirely too early, and I'm half-dead on the vine?  What if I break first person, to write about “The Subject”?  Perhaps no one will care about the subject or The Subject.  Really, what is there to say?   What if there were no redemptive, affirming, uplifting, or inspiring content?  And if any turned up, if I weeded it gone?  If The Subject dragged through, fucked up, dicked over, suffered shame, and sunk heavier as the thing rolled along.  Is that a memoir? And if fantastic events occurred for The Subject - if she got a standard poodle and together they opened a pest exterminating business that operated on college campuses and scheduled using Twitter, but pesticide exposure killed the dog and she developed Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), what then?  And then if she became a bar back at Tracks Raw Bar and Grill in Penn Station for cash to breed standard poodles as a self-perpetuating monument to the fallen dog, but the cleaning fluids used backing the bar caused her MCS to flare up, which then littered her shifts with seizures, asthma, and dermatitis, naturally alarming staff and customers alike, resulting in her firing from Tracks, that’s probably starting to cast away from memoir, no? I can’t tell, or remember.  

WER WEN WEM   Acrylic collage   14 x 17 inches 2015 $750

http://christopherschade.com/

Christopher Schade was born in Austin, Texas and grew up there and throughout Latin America in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru.  Schade received his Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Texas at Austin in Plan II Honors Humanities and Studio Art in Painting and then received his Masters in Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University.  He has had solo exhibitions at dberman gallery in Austin, Texas and Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas.  His group exhibitions include shows at GRG gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Brian Morris Gallery, Sampson Projects Gallery, and The Contemporary Austin Jones Center His work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Dallas Art Revue, Austin American-Statesman and The Austin Chronicle.  He is a founder of the Artist Lecture Series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and has curated numerous group shows most recently “Prime Matter” which opens this month at the Teckningsmuseet in Laholm, Sweden.  He currently teaches at drawing at Montclair State University and Hudson County Community College in New Jersey and painting in Paris, France for International Studies Abroad.  

Sun, Stairs and Quay   Acrylic and ink on paper   9 x 9 inches   2009 $900

jeremyroby.com

Jeremy Roby has a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and design.  He has shown in group shows in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York and has had a solo show in Kentucky.  He lives and works in Brooklyn.

Yellow Birthday   Gouache on paper   15.5 x 11.5 inches   2012 $850

seanrileystudio.com

In 1999 Riley received a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 2004 he received an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. Since that time Riley has held several solo exhibitions and been included in many group shows throughout the Northeast. He has been a resident artist at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, the Vermont Studio Center, and is soon to be a resident at the Joan Mitchel Foundation in New Orleans. He has lived for many years in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and also in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Rome, Italy. He currently lives and works in Providence, RI.

Oval Shield lll   acrylic, gouache, casein,  colored pencil, ink & pastel on wood, canvas & cardboard   12 x 6 inches   2015 $1000

DebraRamsay.com

Debra Ramsay is an abstract artist working in the disciplines of painting, drawing and installation. She maintains a full time studio practice in New York City. Ramsay was awarded a 2016 residency at the Albers Foundation, a 2013 residency at the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY and in 2012 a fellowship at BAU Institute in Otranto, Italy. Ramsay’s 2015 exhibitions include a two-person show at TSA NY Gallery in Brooklyn and a group exhibition at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Her 2014 exhibitions included Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia in Chelsea, NYC and The Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ. In 2013 she had a solo show titled MAT/tam, curated by Lucio Pozzi at Palazzo Costa, in Mantova, Italy.

Salmon and Witch Hazel   acrylic on polyester film   16 x 20 inches   2015 $450

mikhailmishin.com

Mikhail Mishin was born in 1981 in Essentuki, Russia. He received his BFA in graphic design from Stavropol Regional School of Design in Pyatigorsk, Russia in 2001, and MFA in graphic design from Pyatigorsk Technological University, Russia in 2005. In 2005 Mishin moved to New York City. He attended AICAD New York Studio Residency program in 2011, and in 2012 received his second BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Russia.

Fading  to Black (turquoise)   C-print college on paper 15 x 18 inches   2015 $1500

Somewhere Inside.   C-print college on paper   15 x 18 inches   2015 $1500

www.nicolemauser.com

Nicole Mauser (b. 1983, Indianapolis, IN, US).  Mauser’s paintings investigate the tensions at play between the physicality of painting itself and the speed of the image within the language of abstraction. Mauser obtained a MFA from The University of Chicago in (2010) and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design (2006). Paintings have been featured at Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago); Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Missouri Western State University (St. Joseph); AR Gallery (Milan); and Centre pour l’Art et le Culture (Aix-en-Provence, France). Works have been featured in New American Paintings, The New York Times, The Kansas City Star, The Benefactor Magazine and others. Her writings have been published in New City, Art Practical, 8 ½ x 11, and Bad at Sports Blog. Mauser was a recipient of The University of Chicago Student Arts Council Student Grant for painting research in Berlin, Germany (2010), and a Post-MFA Teaching Fellowship at The University of Chicago (2011). Mauser was co-founder of the artist-run gallery, PLUG Projects (2011-2012) as well as a co-founder of KCPAC (Kansas City Plein Air Coaterie). Collections include The Alexander (Indianapolis) and The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park). Currently, she is a Lecturer at The University of Chicago as well as Engagement Coordinator at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.

Untitled (Mies+Sullivan)   Photo collage and acrylic on gessoed Arches paper 15 x 11 inches   2015 $750