Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Rebekah Templeton, Grizzly Grizzly, & Marginal Utility are Having a Group Exhibition! Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6pm-10pm

Please join:
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Rebekah Templeton, Grizzly Grizzly, & Marginal Utility for a Group Exhibition!
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6pm-10pm

Our galleries are a labor of love and our involvement and commitment to them runs concurrently with our commitments to studio and curatorial practices.
We want to show you what we’ve been up to!

NO IDLE HANDS

Crane Arts LLC
SUITE 102
1400 N American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803

Opening Reception 6pm-10pm
Other visits by appointment only:
PHONE: (484)-469-0319
EMAIL: TigerStrikesAsteroid@gmail.com

PROOF OF MY UNKNOWING EYES: Amy Beecher / Susan Bricker @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Proof of My Unknowing Eyes 
July 8 – 31, 2011

Essay by Jeffrey Scott Matthews
Essay by Mathew Schneier

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to
announce the opening of its July exhibition, Proof of My
Unknowing Eyes, featuring the works of Susan Bricker
and Amy Beecher. 

The showʼs essayist, Jeffrey Scott Mathews, notes:

In the work of Amy Beecher and Susan Bricker, we are presented with visual criteria
establishing both presence and absence in the material and in the immaterial. In both of the artistsʼ work, there is a manipulation of paint, yet there exists an elusive and supernatural component to the work that suggests a tenuous relationship with the traditional or fundamentalist modes of abstraction and representation.

About the artists:
Amy Beecher received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and
her BA, Visual Art with Honors, Brown University, Providence, RI. She has exhibited
and curated widely in the United States and currently resides in New York City. A
portion of Amy Beecher's work for this exhibition was expertly printed by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

Susan Bricker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA in Painting, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and
her BFA in Painting at San Francisco Art Institute. Bricker also has a BA in Psychology from The University of Oregon. She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad recently at Mixed Greens, New York, NY and Second Home Projects, Berlin, Germany 

Proof of My Unknowing Eyes
Amy Beecher / Susan Bricker 
July 8 – 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, July 8, 2011 6pm – 10pm
319A North 11th Street 2H

Philadelphia, PA 19107
http://www.TigerStrikesAsteroid.com

Please help support our “Kickstarter” Project We have until July 12, 2011!!!!
To make a donation please visit our project page: Tiger Strikes Asteroid Moves and Expands! 
URL is: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2082312048/tiger-strikes-asteroid-moves-and-expands

Come out and see Summer Above at TSA - We’re Open This weekend!

Come out and see Summer Above at TSA 
-We're open this weekend!
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2H
Philadelphia PA 19107
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2pm-6pm and by appointment
http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

- Terri Saulin for Tiger Strikes Asteroid
terrisaulin.com

Reading for Synesthesia Project

Read this!
Real Rhapsody in Blue by Anne Underwood.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is Moving!

ONE NIGHT MEMBERS SHOW

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is excited to announce it is moving! Since it opened in 2009, the gallery has been housed on the 4th floor of 319A North 11th Street. Beginning in May of 2011, we will be housed in a beautiful new space on the 2nd floor of the same building, home to Grizzly Grizzly, Marginal Utility and
others.

Our new home will be unit number 2H. In advance of this move we will be having a one night only show of all Tiger Strikes Asteroid members on April the 15th in our new space and a special mid-month reception for Theresa Saulin's solo show on the 4th floor to coincide with “Gallery Night” in Philadelphia. Both events will take place from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM on the 15th. Looking forward to seeing you there!

For other Tiger Strikes Asteroid updates, check us out on the web at: 

http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Best wishes for a wonderful Spring!

Tiger Strikes Asteroid

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid

319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor (Soon to be on the 2nd Floor!!!!)

Philadelphia PA 19107

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

http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Music

Beth Cavener Stichter: UPenn, B1 Meyerson, 6PM Wednesday April 6

Terri Saulin @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, April 1, 2011

Press: Phila Weekly

Catalogue PDF: The Solipsism of an Inverted Cartography by Michael Macfeat

Brave Fire Bugs

Bill Walton

Fleisher/Ollman is very pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by the late artist Bill Walton. The exhibition will survey Walton's wall and floor works made from a spare vocabulary of basic materials and subtle interventions. These intimate investigations, undertaken during a career spanning more than 40 years, are culled from the artist's Estate and several have been loaned by collectors specifically for the exhibition.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 24 from 6-8pm. 

Bill Walton (1935-2010) was born in Camden, New Jersey and briefly studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago before moving to Philadelphia in 1964 where he was a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-1990). Interested in the materials used for printmaking -- wood, lead, steel -- more than the finished product, Walton began to make sculptures after seeing an exhibition of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had his first exhibition in 1971 and over his long career exhibited in galleries nationally and at a variety of institutions including the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.  His work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Gallery and Wellesley College.

Project 2: Multiples

Please find visual information and articles to fuel your research in designing your "Multiples" project.

SADASHI INUZUKA:



KUKULI VELARDI:
Web-Site

NEIL FORREST:
Reading:
Neil Forrest: Detached Ornament/Engaged Architectonics



EVA KWONG:



SATORU HOSHINO:
Read:
A Life Within
Tactile Content





WENDY WALGATE:
Reading: Web-site



SUSAN BEINER:
Read: Susan Beiner's Synthetic Reality
Web-site



RON KLEIN:
Web-Site

Beth Katleman on Her Ceramic Curiosities

 READ THIS! (click link below)

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/garden/13qna.html?_r=3

Ceramics Art Daily

 Hello All,
I am going to suggest that you join Ceramic Arts Daily for supplemental info.
It is a wonderful resource.

 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

January 21, 2011

Testing the Limits of Porcelain in Wheel Thrown, Altered and Carved Sculptures

by Jennifer McCurdy Read Comments (1)

Jennifer McCurdy sands a wheel-thrown, altered, and carved porcelain sculpture. A couple of months ago, I attended the Potters Council Porcelain II conference in San Diego for the purpose of capturing some of the presenting artists’ impressive techniques on video to share with you! And today I will do just that.  Jennifer McCurdy has been working with porcelain for over twenty five years and for the last several years, she has been really putting it to the test structurally. She has been experimenting with how thin high fire porcelain can be before it collapses in the kiln and how much can it be cut away and still maintain structural integrity? The results of these experiments are stunning sculptures that reflect the movement of the potter’s wheel and the fire of the kiln. Today, Jennifer demonstrates her techniques from the initial thrown form to the lighter-than-air finished piece. - Jennifer Harnetty, editor.

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This video was filmed at the Potters Council Porcelain II workshop. Click here for more information on upcoming Potters Council workshops!

Finished wheel-thrown, altered and carved sculpture by Jennifer McCurdy. Click to enlarge! To learn more about Jennifer McCurdy or see more images of her work, visit www.jennifermccurdy.com.

Welcome to Raku/CR218

Hello All,
Welcome to the Spring semester of Raku.
You will find the syllabus here.
Students will receive a weekly schedule in class, Tuesday, 01/18/2011.
Just this past week, 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.
Please see the post below for information about Raku and Paul Soldner.

Paul Soldner dies at 89; ceramicist known for American raku He stumbled onto the style he became known for, befitting of an artist who celebrated the beauty of the accidental and unpredictable.

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.