Anne Schaefer: What you couldn't plan for @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid / Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 6pm - 10pm

Anne Schaefer: What you couldn't plan for 
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 6pm - 10pm 
May 4 – May 27, 2012
 
PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its May exhibition, What you couldn't plan for, featuring works by TSA member Anne Schaefer. This will be Schaeferʼs second solo exhibition with the gallery.
 
May seems perfect timing for Anne Schaeferʼs new prints and approach to object making. The works in this exhibition are a departure from her recent installations that are rooted in years of rigorous study that employ finely tuned, precise decisions concerning color and form. The new works breath fresh air into the remnants that mark her studio process. The works are like Spring cuttings, arranged in a vase that offer the viewer a glimpse into the artistʼs atelier.

A visit to Schaeferʼs workspace reveals ghost like prints on walls and a collection of textured tape clusters. In her hands, by-products are transformed into delicately bundled, layered images. Pedestal-like elements grow roots and break away from rectilinear confines and flirt with more complex rhizomatic geometry. They are reminders of past works that have been grafted to each other, creating new possibilities for growth and expansion.

Anne Schaefer: What you couldn't plan for
May 4 – May 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 6pm - 10pm
Hours:  Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment
(484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com

Installing BAR SINISTER @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid with artist Michael Macfeat!

Michael Macfeat: BAR SINISTER

Curated by Terri Saulin 

April 6 – 29, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, April 6^th, 2012, 6-10pm

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

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

319A North 11^th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Michael Macfeat's prints and sculptures in Bar Sinister concern themselves with the issue of color, one through artifice and the other through the natural process of patina and entropy. They bracket the temporal extremes of twenty years of Macfeat's oeuvre. An ambiguity of meaning is apparent. Neither the sculptures nor the images are obvious but often stem from his life long love affair with reading. They rely on Macfeat's history as a bibliophile, accumulating and cultivating a compendium of quotes both visual and verbal. They become color coded strategic military maps drawn from his interest in 'Pataphysics, the Situationists and Psychogeography. Once codes are cracked and coordinates deciphered, the connection modulates between the Dialectical Materialism of the Arte Povera group and an intellectual stroll through the arcades with the flâneurs, leisurely  walking lobsters at the end of the leash. Allow yourself ample time to savor and linger over beautifully turned words and ideas.

- Curators Note
My first contact with Michael Macfeat was back in the early 1980’s. He was invited to lecture at Moore College of Art and Design by our mutual friend Bill Walton. Mike told revolutionary tales and offered proof that it was possible to buck the system and take control of the white cube. Early in his career, Mike was busy blazing trails and creating models for DIY cooperative spaces like those cozily nestled at 319 N. 11th Street. He was curating shows and procuring alternative spaces, offering sheet rocking labor to property owners in order to show his stable of friends/artists. At a show he arranged in an empty store front on South Street, he even went as far as dressing two art handlers in white lab coats to switch paintings throughout an entire opening. This delicately choreographed action made it possible to squeeze 80 pieces into a space that would only hold 20. At a leisurely pace, the two handlers were able to change every painting in the gallery, creating an entirely different exhibition every 45 minutes. This is just one example of Macfeat’s brilliant, poetic and simultaneously hilarious approach to Culture Trade.

Presenting the work of Michael Macfeat at Tiger Strikes Asteroid is an honor and a long overdue Thank you for his inspiration and friendship.

Michael Macfeat: BAR SINISTER @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Sagittarius in Bullet Holes on a Pink Wall, 2012

Michael Macfeat: BAR SINISTER

April 6 – 29, 2012

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its April exhibition, Bar Sinister, featuring works by Michael Macfeat, curated by TSA member,Terri Saulin.

Michael Macfeat's prints and sculptures in Bar Sinister concern themselves with the issue of color, one through artifice and the other through the natural process of patina and entropy. They bracket the temporal extremes of twenty years of Macfeat's oeuvre. An ambiguity of meaning is apparent. Neither the sculptures nor the images are obvious but often stem from his life long love affair with reading. They rely on Macfeat's history as a bibliophile, accumulating and cultivating a compendium of quotes both visual and verbal. They become color coded strategic military maps drawn from his interest in 'Pataphysics, the Situationists and Psychogeography. Once codes are cracked and coordinates deciphered, the connection modulates between the Dialectical Materialism of the Arte Povera group and an intellectual stroll through the arcades with the flâneurs, leisurely walking lobsters at the end of the leash. Allow yourself ample time to savor and linger over beautifully turned words and ideas.

Michael Macfeat: BAR SINISTER

April 6 – 29, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, April 6th, 2012, 6-10pm

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

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

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 Napoleon. 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. 
 

promo: Bar Sinister from Timothy Buckwalter on Vimeo.


promo: Bar Sinister from Timothy Buckwalter on Vimeo.

The Method Case

 One of my fave design blogs:

 http://www.themethodcase.com/running-mould-glithero/

 Drawing Apparatus by Robert Howsare

Posted by themethodcase on Saturday, March 3, 2012





Running Mould – Glithero

Posted by themethodcase on Thursday, January 26, 2012

Running Mould (2010) from Glithero on Vimeo.

Multiples & Installation

SATORU HOSHINO

SATORU HOSHINO

RON KLEIN

RON KLEIN

SADASHI INUZUKA

Sadashi Inuzuka Wendy Walgate

Wendy Walgate

Jaime Alvarez: Memento @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, March 2 - April 1, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, March 2nd, 6pm-10pm

 

Jaime Alvarez: Memento        

March 2 – April 1, 2011

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce its March 2012 exhibition, “Memento”, the first solo exhibition by TSA member Jaime Alvarez.

Alvarez’s work explores particular details of icons that function within a larger established structure or ideology. He examines and subverts the idea of memory encapsulated within objects, which share an established history of decorative use.

"In allegory, the vision of the reader is larger than the vision of the text; the reader dreams to an excess, to an overabundance. To read an allegorical narration is to see beyond the relations of narration, character, desire. To read allegory is to live in the future, the anticipation of closure, beyond the closure of narrative." 

 - Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

“Memento” is a collection of one hundred framed photographs of second hand souvenirs.  The figurines have been painted black, lit, and photographed from the rear or three quarters view, denying the viewer the “familiar” frontal view of the objects. Alvarez’s manipulation liberates the figurines, freeing them of past associations. The once ubiquitous statuettes are transformed into a sublime tableau. The objects speak a completely new language. Imbued with emotion, they become powerful talismans, gazing into the void.

Jaime Alvarez received his MFA from Cranbrook University & his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has been a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid since 2011.

Jaime Alvarez: Memento

March 2 - April 1, 2012

Opening reception:  Friday, March 2nd, 6pm-10pm

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

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

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 Napoleon. 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. 

First Firing!