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Mis-Shapes
Exhibition
Mis-Shapes
5 Aug 2022 – 11 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Sunday
- 13:00 – 18:00
by appointment
Free admission
Address
- 1329 Willoughby Ave
- #2A
- New York
New York - 11237
- United States
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Mis-Shapes, a group exhibition curated by Catalina Schliebener Muñoz featuring artists Ad Minoliti, KC Crow Maddux and Madeline Jimenez Santil with text by Nicolas Cuello.
About
The artists involved are also producing a limited edition zine as part of the exhibition. The zine will launch at a special event at the gallery on August 28.
Mis-Shapes brings together a group of artists working at the intersection of abstraction and the body: trans, non-binary, and racialized bodies; bodies without a singular form or name; bodies that resist being co-opted. Combining elements of photography, installation, drawing, and found objects like sex toys and stuffed animals, among others, the pieces on display respond to the space they are situated within, extending outward rather than sitting tidily inside of a frame.
Each of the artists, in different ways, meshes the corporal with their own lexicon of geometry and symbols, expressing and exploring a tension between idealized structures and fleshy, soft, pulsating forms. Rather than deconstructing abstraction in a purely intellectual exercise the work opens up the possibility of new shapes, new bodies, slipping between and around the expected, challenging viewers’ assumptions about who or what kinds of bodies operate how and in what spaces.
