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!

Eye Candy Alerts!

I'll be posting visual treats regularly as "Eye Candy" alerts!

(click names for links to more info)

Ken Price

 Geoffrey Swindell

 

KATSUYO AOKI

Check out CERAMICS NOW magazine!





Kwok-Pong ‘Bobby’ Tso

Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/design/ken-price-sculptor-who-helped-elevate-ceramics-dies-at-77.html?_r=1

Jerry Saltz Remembers the Sculptor Ken Price, 1935-2012

 

More on Synesthesia....

A conversation with George Crumb

Vox Balaenae (1971), Part I, by George Crumb 

Project #4 : One Part Clay

ONE PART CLAY


http://www.curatedobject.us/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/14/april_biener_detail_2.jpg

Reading Assignments:

1. Susan Beiner's Synthetic Reality, Glen R. Brown, 2009
2. Ceramics Pluralism, Glen R. Brown, 2009
3.One Part Clay, Garth Clark

Be prepared to discuss one or more of the artists presented by examining the extra media provided with the slide shows.

Adelaide Paul

Adelaide Paul

John Byrd





Chad Curtis

Chad Curtis

Richard Cleaver
Press

Michael Lucero

Michael Lucero

Sumi Maeshima

Sumi Maeshima

Tim Berg & Rebekah Meyers



Rain Harris

A Colossus in Clay Speaks a Generation’s Message

By RANDY KENNEDY

Published: February 14, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/arts/design/the-ungovernables-the-new-museums-triennial-show.html

 

Matt Frock is launching his new book on "Kickstarter!" ONLY 20 DAYS LEFT TO HELP FUND THIS PROJECT!!!

 Hello Friends, Family & Colleagues,
After four years of rewarding hard work, Matt Frock (my awesome husband) has written and illustrated Love Squared, a lovingly crafted work of fiction told in words and pictures for ages nine to ninety.

He is trying to raise the initial costs of running a first edition printing through "Kickstarter." Please consider visiting the link & supporting this wonderful project through your pledge/purchase of a signed, first edition copy of the book, or consider some of the other pledge options including original art works offered as rewards for your gracious support.

There are only 20 days left to fund this project!!!
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES CLOSE MARCH 3rd!

Please check out Matt's Kickstarter book launch HERE!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465549001/love-squared-first-edition

WHAT IS KICKSTARTER???

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.

A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project.

All or nothing funding. On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. Why? It protects everyone involved. Creators aren’t expected to develop their project without necessary funds, and it allows anyone to test concepts without risk.

Each and every project is the independent creation of someone like you. Projects are big and small, serious and whimsical, traditional and experimental. They’re inspiring, entertaining and unbelievably diverse. We hope you agree... Welcome to Kickstarter!

      VALENTINES DAY IS ALMOST HERE!

What could possibly be a better gift than a book about falling in Love & saving the world! Supporting a great project on Kickstarter is heartwarming. A good deed, indeed! For a generous & loving pledge of 25$, you will receive a copy of “Love Squared” signed with a message from the author. (my awesome husband Matt Frock)


Can you buy multiple books?

Hecks yes!
Just add $20 to any pledge for an extra book!

Happy Love Day!!!
(Feel Free to share the Love2 with friends!)
Thank you so much for your consideration!
xx
- Terri

Project # 3: Figurative / Hybrid

KUKULI VELARDE

Reading:
Jack Thompson: The Well of Myth, Glenn R. Brown

Below, please find some artists that we will examine and discuss in class.
Please re-visit the slide shows as you continue to work on your projects. Click on the links provided. These will direct you to several video biographies, articles and artist statements that are required viewing/reading for class discussion and development of your individual projects.

Jack Thompson

Justin Novak : Disfigurines

 Dirk Stashke : Figures

Akio Takamori

Akio & the Alphabet Project

 Animal Sculptures : Vatican Collection

Brendan Lee Satish Tang

Go to site

Christine Antemann 

Adrian Arleo

SERGEI ISUPOV 

VIOLA FREY

ROBERT ARNESON

Project # 2 Synesthesia

Glenn Gould- Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould-Truck Stop-sub ITA


Gould meets McLaren


Read this!

Visual Music @ The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

Real Rhapsody in Blue by Anne Underwood.

Ron Nagle


Check out: Pacific Standard Time

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos part one from Ken Stevens on Vimeo.

Frank Lloyd’s blog  (From: Frank Lloyd Gallery)

How the Blue Wall Was Built

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There have been some truly pivotal moments in L.A. art history.  Some of the groundbreaking achievements were in ceramics, it’s often noted.  The biggest move, to my mind, was when John Mason and Peter Voulkos rented a studio on the corner of Glendale Blvd. and Baxter Street in 1957. The first things they made were large-scale sculpture.  They adapted industrial technology, and had a huge kiln built that could match their ambitions: “I could stand upright in [the kiln] and a number of friends could stand upright in it also,” Mason has recalled.
Mason’s first sculptures, made in that Glendale Blvd. studio, were vertical, closed forms, with a shape that resembled a spear.  Then, over the next few years, he made several huge steps forward, moving into uncharted territory with the medium of fired clay. Mason began to make massive rough-hewn walls; he soon broke into a kind of totemic verticality. Eventually, he built huge cross forms and solid, mysterious geometric shapes.
He did this by developing innovative ways of working, including pushing clay onto a huge easel to make wall reliefs, and compacting the material around a wooden armature to make the vertical sculptures. By 1959 he would use just the weight, gravity and plasticity of the raw clay to build a major work, which will be shown in the main exhibit at the Getty, “Crosscurrents”:  the Blue Wall.
“It wasn’t until I started to work on the floor that I began to just cut and slam clay down on the floor and then take pieces or parts of slabs and add them to make a more linear organic form. One of the first was the Blue Wall, which was over twenty feet long and eight or nine feet across,” Mason has recalled.

Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid / Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6pm‐10pm

 

Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce its February 2012 exhibition, “Cathedral”, a project by Matthew Sepielli.

Though conceived as a cohesive project, the exhibit will have two distinctive parts; ten carved white paintings made of plaster on linen in the main gallery and a film in the gallery’s closet space.

“Cathedral” draws its inspiration from many different sources. Thoughts of sitting in a quiet church in the evening, watching the sun set in the winter and memories of walking in the woods late at night are all moments that are a part of its creation.

In addition, two different writers and their works have played an enormous role in the conception of the exhibit: Raymond Carver and his short story, “Cathedral” and Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and his essay, “In Praise of Shadows”.

The paintings in the show will be hung high on the walls to reference cathedral windows. Along with this, the works in the show will only be lit by daylight, the indirect light of the building’s hallway and a small lamp on the gallery’s desk. Those who attend the gallery during daylight hours will see the works in more light; those who attend during evening hours or the opening will see the works in dimmer light.

In the gallery’s closet space will be a short film made by the artist.

Matthew Sepielli is an artist living in Philadelphia and a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

Matthew Sepielli: Cathedral

February 3 - 26, 2012

Opening reception:  Friday, February 3, 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.

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

http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com 

READING!

 Peering into 'Clay's Tectonic Shift'

 The Scripps College exhibition examines the myriad issues that surround the form's advancement in the artistic world.

By Leah Ollman, Special to the Los Angeles Times
January 29, 2012

 

Giants of the Heartland

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Published: January 14, 2007

Welcome to Raku/CR218, Spring 2012

Hello All,
Welcome to the 2012 Spring semester of Raku.
The syllabus can be found here
The weekly calendar is here.
I am going to suggest that you all join Ceramic Arts Daily for supplemental info.
It is a wonderful resource. Just click on the link and follow directions to sign in. (it is free!)
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramic-art-and-artists/ceramic-sculpture/testing-the-limits-of-porcelain-in-wheel-thrown-altered-and-carved-sculptures/#more-89103

As we discussed briefly last week, just this past year, the Ceramics community lost one it's most innovative artists. Paul Soldner passed away at the age of 89. He was an incredible gift to the world of Contemporary Ceramics and basically invented the Raku process as we will be using it in class this semester. Please see the post below for more information about Raku and Paul Soldner.

Taken from:http://www.paulsoldner.com/

Paul Soldner has made numerous invaluable contributions to the field of ceramics, including developing what has been come to be known as "American Raku", and a technique known as "low-temperature salt firing". His involvement with raku, for which he is now internationally known, came by chance. As Garth Clark relates:

"Invited to demonstrate at a crafts fair in 1960, Soldner decided to experiment with the technique. Using Bernard Leach's "A Potter's Book" as his guide, he set up a simple kiln and improvised a few lead-based glazes. The results were disappointing: the clay body did not respond well to the quick firing technique, and the glazes were shiny and too brightly colored. His fascination with raku (a Japanese technique developed in the sixteenth century) did not diminish, however, and Soldner continued to experiment. At first he produced mainly tea bowls, but soon found these restrictive and somewhat academic, as there was no tea ceremony in Western culture that would give the forms their traditional significance. He gradually discovered he was more interested in raku as a technique and an aesthetic than as a tradition. This attitude resulted in a much more playful approach to form, scale, function, and material." (Garth Clark)

The traditional raku technique, which involves throwing and bisque-firing vessels which are then glazed and placed directly in an open raku kiln to be withdrawn a few minutes later and plunged into water, was adopted, transformed, and manipulated by Soldner as his major medium of expression, and as a result has gained widespread popularity in the ceramic art world. Though through Soldner raku has grown away from it's Oriental traditions and become a strongly American art form, the form still requires the same depth and sensitivity to succeed. As Soldner states:

"In the spirit of raku, there is the necessity to embrace the element of surprise. There can be no fear of losing what was once planned and there must be an urge to grow along with the discovery of the unknown. In the spirit of raku: make no demands, expect nothing, follow no absolute plan, be secure in change, learn to accept another solution and, finally, prefer to gamble on your own intuition. Raku offers us deep understanding of those qualities in pottery which are of a more spiritual nature, of pots by men willing to create objects that have meaning as well as function." (Soldner, 1973)

Go HERE for article by Jori Finkel.