Friends From Work
unexpected connections, parallels, and juxtapositions
Aug 2, 2025 12:00 PM — Sep 6, 2025 8:00 PM
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Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville
714-261-0778
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friends from work. explores the unexpected connections, parallels, and juxtapositions created between artists who are linked not by medium or concept but by the places they work.
Today, the vast majority of artists do not make a living solely from the sale of their paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, or performances. Many hold jobs adjacent to the arts, while others work in entirely different fields. These jobs often, sometimes unexpectedly, serve as sites of connection and community. Shared workspaces can become places where creative relationships and even friendships form and where the boundaries between labor and artistic practice begin to blur.
friends from work. reimagines the day job not as a detour from artistic life, but as a generative space; one that sparks new ideas, and fosters problem-solving strategies that carry into the studio.
TSA GVL members Adam Eddy, Sterling Bowen, and Rebecca Forstater invited current and former coworkers who are also creatives to take part in an experimental curatorial approach. The works in this exhibition are not united by a singular theme or aesthetic, but by shared labor, lived proximity, and the informal networks formed through working together.
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Participating Artists
Robert Aitchison, Mr. Canada (rumored to be Dr. Dan Mathewson), Quinn Jarvis Holland, Darby Long, Ryan Masson, Alex McClurg, Kelsea Nichols, Heather Pownal, Robin Reif, Hagar Sadan, Amanda Struver
About TSA GVL
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501c3 non-profit network of independently programmed, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities.