Gerard Brown: “ ” @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening Reception Friday, November 4, 2011 5 – 10pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce their November exhibition
Gerard Brown
“ ”
November 4 – December 31, 2011
Opening Reception Friday, November 4, 2011 5 – 10pm

PHILADELPHIA – Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia’s artist-curated exhibition space presents “ ”, an exhibition of new works on paper by Philadelphia artist Gerard Brown. The show opens with a reception on First Friday, November 4, 2011. The gallery is located at 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA. Gallery hours are Saturday & Sunday 2pm-6pm & by appointment. For additional information and images please contact our staff or gallery director Matt Sepielli, at tel. (484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com

The exhibit of paintings and prints continues Brown’s exploration of the intersections between reading and seeing, and its punctuated title (which can be read as “blank quote” or “smart quotes”) alludes to the use of others' words in the work. Two large pieces dominate the show; a multi-panel drawing in gouache on paper translates Frank O’Hara’s 1957 poem “To the Harbormaster” into nautical code flags, and a 32-part digital print conflates images of oceanographic satellite photography with James McBride’s bestselling 1996 memoir, “The Color of Water”. “I want to know what happens when things are misunderstood,” Brown says, “when messages that are encoded are not seen as meaningful, or when an attempt to communicate directly is seen as a formal gesture.” During the run of the exhibit, the gallery will release an essay by artist David Stephens and art writer Robin Rice that discusses the works.

Gerard Brown is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Foundation Department at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. A longtime participant in the Philadelphia art community, he contributed art reviews to the Philadelphia Weekly and Seven Arts magazine in the 1990s and, with City Paper critic Robin Rice, began eyelevel, a newsletter of art criticism that appeared occasionally throughout the late 1990s. He has organized exhibits and contributed essays to galleries and museums throughout the region, and is currently the Resident Scholar at the Center for Art in Wood, where he organized “Turning to Art In Wood: A Creative Journey” in observation of the newly re-named organization’s 25th anniversary. This is Brown’s third one-person exhibit, and his first in Philadelphia.

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 Progressive Sharing. 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. In addition to its exhibition programs, Tiger Strikes Asteroid maintains Flat File, a collection of small-scale artworks by past, current and future exhibitors. All works in Flat File are under 9 x 12 inches and are available for sale. The collection may be viewed by appointment.

Gallery hours Saturday & Sunday, 2PM-6PM & by appointment
Appointments: (484)-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid@gmail.com


319A North 11th Street 2H, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com


- Terri Saulin for Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Project #4: ARCHICECTURAL

Project #4: ARCHICECTURAL

Reading Assignments:
Neil Forrest: Detached Ornament/Engaged Architectonics

Neil Forrest

Doug Herren

http://www.dougherren.com/Site/Home.html

Ken Vavrek

http://www.kenvavrek.com/index.html

Bill Daley

http://williamdaley.net/index.html



http://www.jeannequinnstudio.com/

Project #4: ARCHITECTURAL

PROJECT #4
ARCHITECTURAL

Reading Assignments:
Neil Forrest: Detached Ornament/Engaged Architectonics

Neil Forrest

Doug Herren

http://www.dougherren.com/Site/Home.html

Ken Vavrek

http://www.kenvavrek.com/index.html

Bill Daley

http://williamdaley.net/index.html



http://www.jeannequinnstudio.com/

The Unsettled @ UD Crane: October 13 – November 27, 2011 2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm

October 13 – November 27, 2011
2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm
Location: University of Delaware Gallery
Hours: Wednesday, 12-4, and Thursday thru Sunday 12 to 6
 
Though the word “grotesque” has in contemporary usage come to refer primarily to the unpleasant or disgusting, The Unsettled instead explores the term as it relates to notions of duality, hybridism, and transformation. The work chosen occupies the physical, mental, and cultural spaces between states of being and emphasizes those unsettling elements that exist just below the civilized veneer of society. It is about those things we attempt to hide from our friends, family, neighbors, and even ourselves, and the transformations that take place as a result of such suppression, It is about the futility of denying our basic natures and examines the mechanisms by which our fears, doubts, and primal instincts – real and imagined – manifest themselves to ourselves and the world around us, on both a personal and societal level. Taken as a whole, The Unsettled suggests that what we think is solid might not be, and dares us as viewers and artists to peek beneath the surface of what we consider normal.

co-currated by Michael Merry and Patrick Koziol, two currentUniveristy of Delaware MFA students

Featuring:

Susan Camp
Erica Eyres
Alex Fogt
Brandon Jones
Patrick Koziol
Michael Merry
Cindy Stockton Moore
Josh Nobiling
Andrew Prayzner
Elaine Quave
Troy Richards
Terri Saulin
Jacob Smiley
Adam Parker Smith
Lindsay Wraga

Interesting Works of the Week:

Hello All,
Here are a few websites worth checking out!

NUALA O'DONOVAN


Katsu Yoaoki

PROJECT # 3

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

After the Drawing Crit ... a Trip to ICA!

ica home exhibitions public programs about ica visit get involved media center miranda // the blog support news shop	Bill Walton's Studio September 7 – December 4, 2011 Reception: Wednesday, September 7, 6-8PM Exhibition walkthrough with curator Ingrid Schaffner: Wednesday, September 7, 5PM, ICA Members Only The Institute of Contemporary Art presents Bill Walton's Studio in the Project Space. This exhibition recreates the unique environment of the minimalist artist, a key figure in the Philadelphia art community for nearly 50 years. Walton, a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-1990), was often more interested in the materials used for printmaking—wood, lead, steel—than in the finished product. His studio contained an exhibition area so he could display his work in progress in order to judge whether or not it was finished, a crucial part of his studio practice. At the time of his death in 2010, Walton's studio was a small miracle of order. Tools and materials were arranged as carefully as works of art. Indeed it was not always simple to tell the tools from the work, to judge whether an artful arrangement of screws and bolts was waiting to be used or to be admired. ICA's exhibition catalogues, transfers, and displays the elements of Walton's studio, from finished work to workbench to cassette tapes and coffee cups. Using plywood slats and weathering techniques, ICA faithfully re-creates the studio's painted wooden floor, down to the way Walton filled the seams in the area that was his exhibition space. In today's art world, where so many artists work digitally and conceptually, this installation gives visitors insight into the hands-on, craft-oriented way a traditional artist hones his craft. This exhibition is organized by ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner, and is accompanied by a brochure publication. RELATED PUBLIC PROGRAMS Sunday, December 4, 2pm Bill Walton: Gifting the Studio Share memories, receive ephemera, and help complete the transfiguration of Bill Walton, a key figure in the Philadelphia art community for nearly fifty years. Hear how his animating spirit affects artists working today as ICA's recreation of his unique studio environment prepares to close. ICA is grateful to the Edna W. Andrade Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation  for their generous support. We acknowledge the generous sponsorship of Barbara  B. & Theodore R. Aronson for the exhibition brochure, and are grateful to the  Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation for funding public educational programs in  conjunction with this project. Additional support has been provided by The Horace  W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Dietrich Foundation, Inc.; the Overseers Board for  the Institute of Contemporary Art; friends and members of ICA; and the University  of Pennsylvania. General operating support provided, in part, by the Philadelphia  Cultural Fund. ICA receives state arts funding support through a grant from the  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of  Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. We are  grateful to John Ollman and the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery for their in-kind support.  ICA acknowledges Le Meridien Philadelphia as our official UnLock Art partner hotel. images: (Top, middle left and right): Bill Walton's Studio, 2011, Philadelphia. Photo by Karen Mauch. (Bottom): Bill Walton,Untitled, n.d. clamp, brass, aluminum, copper, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Collection of Kirk Kirkpatrick and John Wind. Copyright © 2000-2011, Institute of Contemporary Art. All rights reserved. Institute of Contemporary Art @ University of Pennsylvania 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 · 215 898-7108 · contact us Hours: Wed 11-8 · Thu-Fri 11-6 · Sat-Sun 11-5 · Mon-Tue closed Find us on: facebook · twitter · miranda · mailing list Website developed by Zero Defect Design LLC.    New podcast – ICA’s Ingrid Schaffner on curating, making her zine Pink, and working with artists By roberta | September 5, 2011   CONTINUA. An upcoming solo exhibition. Two-years in the making, Continua is a systems-based project that explores the foundational aspect of color as a continuous and singular element that is fragmented into formalized units of three-dimensionally parceled space using hand-dyed Philadelphia phonebooks. CONTINUA will be presented as a site-specific installation at  319 N. 11th Street, 2nd Floor, September 2nd through October 7th, 2011. Opening Reception September 2nd, 4-9pm. Closing Reception October 7th, 4-9pm. Open gallery hours Wednesdays and Fridays, 12-6pm. And by appointment.