Lauren Luloff in NYT Online Magazine

Congratulations to Lauren Luloff, who was recently featured on the New York Times' Online Magazine.  Lauren's work was in Summer Above, curated by Wallace Whitney this June.

[http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/visiting-artists-lauren-luloff/]

Title Magazine: "moving on" by Jessica Anne Clark

Please read this article in Title Magazine about TSA's current show, moving on.

William Blackhurst

"Group shows are sometimes akin to shared housing: ragtag bunches of wayward objects take shelter beneath bursts of halogen light to create a dubious whole. Under the auspices of amorphous themes, these inanimate strangers bide but never bond. In more mindful groupings, the works coalesce into a rich society full of feasting, discussion, argument, and agreement. Moving On is an excellent example of just this sort of household, with curator Ryan McCartney as captain of the commune. With bodies, mind and motion as the main topic of conversation, this collection of work by Carolee Schneemann, Tim Belknap, and William Blackhurst, is currently in residence at Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s new digs."

 

"moving on" on the Art Blog!

"moving on" was written up on the Art Blog.

"moving on", curated by TSA member Ryan McCartney, features the work of Timothy Belknap, William Blackhurst and, Carolee Schneemann.

Timothy Belknap

"moving on is a spare little show. With works by three artists, one local, one in London and one in upstate New York, the exhibit covers a lot of geography — and a lot about the human condition,  in sexy, manic, or bare-bones fashion." - the art blog

These works, "dealing intimately with motion, the body, and the relationship between", will be on display at Tiger Strikes Asteroid through October 2nd.

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 2-6, or by appointment.

For more information: tigerstrikesasteroid.com

"Highlights, Low Fades and Deep Cuts" is one of PW's Frist Friday Picks

Philadelphia Weekly selected Tiger Strikes Asteroid's upcoming show by Tracy Thomason as one of the August First Friday Picks. Its good to see they're as excited about our August show as we are. Read the full write up here, and find out more about Brooklyn based artist Tracy Thomason here.

 

"Dusted with eye shadow and dribbled with hair gel, Thomason’s objects offer traces of the ritualized performance of beauty."

"Highlights, Low Fades and Deep Cuts" is opening THIS Friday, August 5th at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

We are located on the 2nd floor of 319A N 11th St, the opening runs from 6-10pm

The regular hours are Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm.

Upcoming TSA Show Chosen as July Pick on the Art Blog!

We're glad to see that Roberta Fallon and Lilly Rosof of The Art Blog are just as excited about the opening of "Proof of My Unknowing Eyes" as we are! The show, featuring the works of Amy Beecher and Susan Bricker, opens THIS Friday at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

To see theartblog's July picks click here.
Don't forget to come to the opening of "Proof of My Unknowing Eyes" tomorrow (Friday, July 8th) from 6-10pm. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is located at 319A North 11th Street, Philadelphia.
If you haven't already, this is a great opportunity to visit us in our new location on the second floor.

Caroline Santa, "Coda" written up on The Art Blog

Tiger Strikes Asteroid member Caroline Santa received a great review of her show "Coda" on The Art Blog.  Julian Phillips writes, "The artist’s previous work shows an affinity towards use of strong color and shape, which “Coda” echoes but reinvents. Coda draws with materials and takes a look at the process of art making, one step of at a time. Santa’s ideas and approach make refreshing new pathways to consider."

 Come see this "invigorating look at the creative process" Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm before it comes down Sunday, May 28th. The weather is great, so come on out! Tiger Strikes Asteroid is located on the second floor of 319A N. 11th St, Philadelphia.

Live from Mt Airy, It's Alexis Granwell!

A lovely write up of Tiger Strikes Asteroid member Alexis Granwell's show:

 "The latest show at the Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space pairs the assemblages of Alexis Granwell with the paintings of Rick Lewis and proves (again) that contemporary art can pass muster anywhere, even in an 18th-century carriage house in bosky Mount Airy. Granwell's delicate interminglings of colorful cast-off bits of cardboard, leather, wood, wire, paint, and thread look like abstract paintings set loose from canvases. They're the descendants of works by artists like Judy Pfaff and Richard Tuttle, but with a whimsical architecture all their own."

From the Philadelphia Inquirer (click for full article).
The show is up for one more Saturday, don't miss it!

Jared Clark at Mulherin Pollard, Chelsea

Jared Clark's show "Orbital" is up now through March 26th (next Saturday) at Mulherin Pollard Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.

Clark, along with Jess Perlitz, was part of a show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in November 2010.

From the essay for "Orbital", written by Andrew Kozlowski (read the entire thing here)

"Clark is adept at taking the theoretical concepts of modernism and minimalism and reapplying them to conditions that are not ideal. With a laboratory full of objects culled from thrift stores he sets about reconsidering modernist painting and minimalist sculpture. While Jared’s use of rescued objects may liken him to those artists classified as making found-art, it is his affinity for the flatness of painting that imbues his work with a sense of newness."

You can see Clark's "elegant mash-up of minimalism, action painting and pop art" at Mulherin Pollard Projects, 317 10th Ave (btwn 28th & 29th), open Wednesday to Sunday 11-6.

Alexis Granwell in Heaps and Hives, a group exhibition in Hamilton

Alexis Granwell's work is currently in a group show called Heaps and Hives at the Print Center in Hamilton, and was written up in The Globe and Mail.


In Hamilton, the mundane becomes spectuacular, by R.M. Vaughan

"Alexis Granwell’s etchings of the outlines of tunnels and pits, recreated via elaborate, deftly arranged strings of pale blue-grey dots, marks as quiet as mouse paws on cotton..."

[Read the full article here]

Chad Gerth & Lydia Musco on the Artblog

Reality Collage, by Edward Epstein

"Flying over snow-covered mountains in western Pennsylvania long ago, I was struck by the ambiguous appearance of this wintry landscape, as viewed from 30,000 feet. Was I looking at mountains—or and dunes in the desert, waves in the ocean, ripples in a pond? Chad Gerth’s urban photographs and Lydia Jenkins Musco’s constructions of urban materials [Tiger Strikes Asteriod, February 4 - 27, 2011] both explore the difficulties the eye faces in making sense of the world..."

[Read the full article]

Due Diligence Done on the Artblog

Diverse Meanderings at CFEVA and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, by Chip Schwartz

"Another abstract art show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid makes a good point of comparison. Two artists, Brandon Anschultz and John Tallman, share the small space with works that play up the process of making an abstract art work. The artists have similar naturalistic processes that they use to create fairly minimal pieces.

John Tallman uses dyed urethane resin to coat the surfaces of fiberboard into planes of reflective hues. The curious element of these shaped pieces of pure color is that, while one peers into their seeming simplicity, the inconsistencies of the resin and the reflections become apparent. Reflection here is not just a literal play on light, but in a way, a form of introspection as the depth of these pieces emerges.

Using plastic bags and armatures, Tallman also fills makeshift molds with resin as well, sometimes creating geologic-looking forms of unnaturally colored sediment. Of particular interest are the orange-tan, almost flesh-colored hunks of resin he has hanging in pieces from one section of wall. They seem like some sort of cloning experiment gone wrong, and cause a notable amount of anxiety in the viewer; the uneasiness is what makes them stand out.

Oil paint applied to porous surfaces is Brandon Anschultz’s primary medium in this show. The pigments stick together and dry in their natural states, while the oils themselves are absorbed into the material they are painted on. This forms colorless stains around the primary forms, and makes them look almost like parts of the floor of a studio instead of something hanging on a wall.

Two of Anschultz’s creations are 3-dimensional balls of material including paint and sawdust, rubber gloves and resin. The latter is literally composed of old gloves Anschultz used in making other art. He balled them up with whitish resin and let it all congeal in a bag – certainly a better use of discarded gloves than tossing them in a trash bin."

[Read the full article]

Lucy Kim & Jeesoo Lee in the Philadelphia Weekly

"Installation art can sometimes be pretty inscrutable. Is it sculpture? Is it performance? Is it a painting that crawled its way out of the frame like a magic carpet? But these questions are the definition of what’s interesting about art—being asked (or even required) to think. Lucy Kim and Jeesoo Lee, two artists of Korean origin who count installation work as a significant part of their repertoire, will be giving viewers a lot to think about in their upcoming exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

Born in Seoul and trained at RISD and Yale, Lucy Kim’s work roams the wide range between paintings of celebrity iconography and conceptual installations—her past work includes tinfoil impressions of her apartment and car’s interior and an apple painted with the likeness of Paris Hilton. Jeesoo Lee, also trained in the U.S., has described herself as “a painter working three-dimensionally,” projecting her painterly aesthetic into the realm of sculpture and installation—many of her pieces look like they belong in a pop-up book of abstract expressionism. Both women were formally trained as painters, but felt the need to break out of the frame into the third dimension."

Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/December-First-Friday1201.html#ixzz17FzZbUV6

Matthew Sepielli on Phrequency

"In his first solo show, Sepielli sets forth a body of work that throws traditional painting practices to the wolves, often trading traditional canvas for items like his father's course books from college. Sepielli's paintings are akin to the lithosphere – thick and full of matter – laid flat on a table they might resemble the real life contours of a landscape. He incorporates carpet, studio detritus, and more paint than a Sherwin Williams shop to construct what he calls 'things that portray' rather than the blasé 'painting'."

Read the full post: http://www.phrequency.com/blog/art/DIY_FF_OCTOBER.html#ixzz14hoeyeql

Matthew Sepielli in 34th Street Magazine

"If you didn’t catch Matthew Sepielli’s work at Artspace Liberti’s In3s show, now would be the perfect time to journey to Tiger Strikes Asteroid on N. 11th Street to wander through Sepielli’s works. Not quite paintings, but not exactly sculptures either, his work favors hardcover books rather than canvas as his base. These mutant forms have extraordinary texture and come to life through Sepielli’s novel exploration of medium. For instance, his piece “State Fair” layers purples, blues and yellows and juxtaposes them with drill holes on what appears to be scraps of cut canvas spilling out of a closed book. In an interview with FunnelPages, Sepielli reveals his artistic process: “I had all of these hard-bound books, and I was thinking about what I could do with these things after I’m done reading them, since they usually just sit on shelves. So they became surfaces that I paint on. I am thinking about brail and text and how you read a painting versus how you read a book.” With this in mind, his books transform from out-of-reach abstracts into thought provoking 3D concept pieces. Yet, not all of Sepielli’s work hangs on the white walls of galleries — his participation in the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program lends him some serious street cred. This is Sepielli’s first solo exhibit and this local is definitely worth watching out for."

[Read the full article]

Adam Blumberg: Punctum(s) reviewed in the Philadelphia Weekly

"Punctum(s): by Roberta Fallon

Adam Blumberg’s art is about many things, many related to the culture of small-town, Midwest America where he grew up. The objects, drawings and photographs in his solo show, Punctum(s), at Tiger Strikes Asteroid have an anthropological feel—a take on the informal modern tribes to which we all belong (motorcycle riders, protesters and shoppers, for example). It’s all a little elliptical, and while you don’t have to do the reading assignments (although Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and George Baker’s October magazine essay “Photography Expanded” are both excellent reads), it may help to know the theoretical underpinnings to the works and the show’s title.

A punctum is a small detail in a photograph (intentional or not) that takes the viewer into a different subtext than the main subject. For example, a portrait may depict a face and body, but the dirt road in the distance—the punctum—adds a layer of reverie and intrigue, directing the viewer’s imagination elsewhere.

One photo, “Parking Lot, the Springfield Mile,” depicts some down time at a motorcycle rally in Southern Illinois. The shot, taken from above looking down on a small group in a parking lot, seems almost like a surveillance photo. It takes a second to zero in on what all the people congregated are doing—photographing and gawking at a bikini-clad blonde posing near a bike.\

Another, “Logan,” portrays a young boy playing the electric guitar at night between a row of colorful cardboard boxes and a ground-based fireworks display. The low-angle shot captures so much information it takes a while to decide what is the focus—the boy, the guitar, the boxes, the fireworks, the inky sky or maybe those tiny sparks coming off the fireworks, alive with possibility. The photo embodies the spirit of small-town Yankee Doodle on the Fourth of July.

Blumberg, who studied art after switching from an engineering major, produced a few 3D examples of punctum with two “Signs of Protest”—cardboard, hand-lettered signs based on ones that scream their tiny messages in famous news photos of recent-vintage protests, bringing their own meaning to crowd shots. While Blumberg made the pieces for the show, under glass they look like pieces in a museum of the future documenting the current era. “Jump you Fuckers,” says one, from a Wall Street rally at the height of the financial meltdown. As punctum extricated from their photographic sources and made real, the signs hold your attention. You can imagine the protest, photo or not, and the words on the sign bring a power and meaning that the original photo might not have been aiming for.

Blumberg is an earnest young artist. He is himself a Harley motorcycle rider who has ridden with his father from St. Louis to the big rallies in South Dakota. Blumberg rides a non-motored cycle around Philadelphia, though—his Harley is parked in St. Louis.

The idea of surveillance or distanced observation runs throughout the show. But the eye here isn’t mocking, just a studious look at the world in which the artist travels. Many artists become detectives of a sort, looking under rocks and in bureau drawers to find out about life. Blumberg considers how we try, via the tiny punctum details of our lives and self-expression, to portray ourselves either as members of a group or not. And that’s worth thinking about."


Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/Punctums.html#ixzz14hqVmJwC

Adam Blumberg: Punctum(s) on the Art Blog

"The most amusing September exhibition I encountered was almost certainly Adam Blumberg’s Punctum(s) at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. A show of seeming refuse and witty banter, Blumberg creates some signs in the style of those held by homeless people asking for change, except encouraging the readers to “Jump! You Fuckers” or asserting that “I Wish I Had Your $Millions of Problems.” Both irreverent and relevant, some pieces are simply word bubbles on loose-leaf paper.

One piece is a plaster and wooden contraption, a beer bong, painted golden-bronze, and looking more like a broken bugle than a drinking device. The do-it-yourself, low cost, drinking-away-of-sorrows approach to Blumberg’s show make it worth a few hearty chuckles and perhaps the hankering for a beer… although I prefer a glass, myself."

Read more: http://theartblog.org/2010/09/first-friday-at-1026-vox-and-tiger/

Tom Vance: Plan in the Philadelphia Weekly

"Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the artist-run, artist-curated exhibition space that shares an address with Vox Populi, will be holding the opening reception for “Plan,” a collection of works by Philadelphian and 2002 Tyler MFA graduate Thomas Vance. Vance, whose work has been featured in four group exhibitions at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery over the past decade, makes three-dimensional pieces such as his amorphous, painted-cardboard geodesics, which recall vegetation in form and Crayola in hue. Vance draws attention to the artifice of painting by covering the cardboard with thick brushstrokes that occasionally evoke wood grain—a nod to late Cubism. The purposefully artificial-looking objects reference natural forms, and they’re little microcosms of the human desire to tame and replicate nature. In the last few years, the artist has added a number of ink drawings to his portfolio, some of which were featured in Seraphim Gallery’s acclaimed “Let’s Go Enjoy Nature!” exhibit last month. His work on paper also turn on themes of nature and control; the recent Nikwai series juxtaposes wood-grain motifs with round figures that evoke the eponymous Japanese topiaries. (Lucy McGuigan)"

Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/Augusty-First-Friday-Picks.html#ixzz14hvR64W2

Older Press Links

June 16, 2010
Clint Jukkala & Mia Rosenthal on Two Coats of Paint

June 10, 2010
Clint Jukkala & Mia Rosenthal reviewed on The Art Blog

April 11, 2010
Anne Schaefer: In Step on The Art Blog

March 07, 2010Nathan Pankratz: Calamity Jane reviewed on Matthews the Younger

February 12, 2010
View from High Places reviewed on Printeresting

February 2, 2010
Carrie Scanga: View from High Places in the Philadelphia Weekly

January 25, 2010
Unveil reviewed on the Art Blog

January 19, 2010Unveil reviewed in CityPaper

November 4, 2009
Patch and Plot in the Philadelphia Weekly

October 8, 2009
Broken, To Bring Forth on the Art Blog

September 15, 2009
Playground Counterpoint on Two Coats of Paint

September 10, 2009
Alex Paik: Playground Counterpoint reviewed on Matthews the Younger

August 23, 2009No Objective reviewed in Philadelphia Inquirer by Edith Newhall.

August 9, 2009No Objective reviewed on Matthews the Younger 

July 19, 2009
Manifest Destination reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer
"Dark Duo," by Edith Newhall

July 7, 2009
Manifest Destination reviewed on The Art Blog
"First Friday - an Introspective Fourth of July," by Libby Rosof

July 6, 2009
Manifest Destination mentioned on Rob Matthews' blog, Matthews the Younger
"First Friday This Week"

June 3, 2009
Pre-opening N4TUR3 buzz on The Art Blog and in Philadelphia City Paper
"What we want to see Friday," by Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof
"First Friday Hit List," by Carolyn Huckabay

June 1, 2009
Tiger Strikes Asteroid featured on AirTran's inflight Magazine
"Underground Artist Society," by Elisa Ludwig

May 13, 2009
Video review of Future Past Imperfect on The Art Blog
"Look! It's Libby and Roberta talking about cats and dogs"

April 14, 2009Interview by Rob Matthews with Phillip Adams on Matthews the Younger
>>download interview

April 14, 2009Spring Break 2009 reviewed in Philadelphia Weekly
"Copy Gallery and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Get Political," by Roberta Fallon

April 7, 2009
Great review of Spring Break 2009 on The Art Blog
"Big and Bigger - Adams and Monnier on First Friday," by Libby Rosof

April 3, 2009
Featured on Daily Candy
"Cats in Space"

March 14, 2009Writeup on Matthews The Younger

March 3, 2009
Brief Mention in Philadelphia Weekly 
"Collective Goal," by Roberta Fallon

Feb 17, 2009
Interview with member Alexis Granwell in Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner
"ASSASSINATION: Alexis Granwell," by Qi Peng .

Feb 12, 2009Pre-opening excitement on The Art Blog
"Tiger Strikes Asteroid Any Day Now!" by Libby Rosof