Opening Reception for Fully Furnished Room

About

We have a very conventional-looking contemporary art space. I swear, there are few spaces as ugly (or just boring?) as a contemporary art space. The lumpy layer cake of sheetrock, white latex and joint compound over cement floors should be considered a hostile environment. In an empty gallery, I get the impression of an Apple computer made out of the skin from an Ivan Albright painting. And though I complain, galleries are my temple.

Anyone who would take the trouble to read this short essay probably worships there as well. I know transcendent moments can happen in these types of spaces, but I wonder at the nature of the psychic toll being extracted by viewing work almost exclusively in such phoney booths2. What to do? An exorcism?

This show of functional works, furniture and images related to more human interiors is conceived as an inverted exorcism of our space. For Fully Furnished Rooms, we have included a very large number of works large and small, manufactured and hand made that somehow embody the essence of living spaces (home, studio, hospital, office, toilet) in order to bless our gallery with the positive spirit of muchness!

Please help ensure a successful investiture of ghosts to ensure future shows and projects have the residue of the world in them and not just other white galleries.

Happenings:   

Thursday, February 20, 2020:

●        7pm-9pm Primary Tautologies book launch. The first monographic publication by Michael Niemetz, which covers the ecocritical artist’s body of work of the past 20 years, is not intended as an instruction manual for production, but rather as a misuse guide with a rethinking process in mind.

●        6pm Family Slide Show: A reenactment of the now extinct and much maligned ‘vacation slide show’ using slides from the families of artists participating in Fully Furnished Rooms.

Sunday, February 23, 2020:

●        1-5pm Nail Art Day: Artist, Jackie Rines will be hosting an inspirational full service nail salon within the gallery. Free open to all.

Notes:

1.       The first TSA show to include artists born on four continents, an active duty Delta Force member, furniture designers, children's television animator and professional astrologers.

2.       An old-man’s pun comparing small galleries to phone booths; vertical coffin sized cabinets which once held telephones spaced at intervals across a city.

Contact: 

TSA LA

The Bendix Building

1206 Maple Avenue, 5th floor, #523

Los Angeles CA 90015

Hours: Sat and Sun 1pm - 5pm and by appointment

(209) 553-0462

Carl Baratta & Chris Ulivo, Co-Directors

losangeles@tigerstrikesasteroid.com

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a network of artist-run spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Each space is independently operated and focuses on presenting a varied program of emerging and mid-career artists. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and build community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. We seek to further empower the artist’s role beyond that of studio practitioner to include the roles of curator, critic, and community developer; and to act as an alternate model to the conventions of the current commercial art market. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization.

On view at the other Tiger Strikes Asteroid Locations:

PHILADELPHIA: Iconologies
January 9 - February 15

NEW YORK: The View From the Gorge, curated by Sheherazade
January 3 - February 9
*part of #ArtistRun2020

CHICAGO: Gush, curated by Debra Kayes
December 15 – January 25

GREENVILLE @ RAMP Gallery 
REDIRECT 
January 24 - February 24

SPECIAL PROJECT / Artist-Run 2020