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SUMMARY:Retranslation
DESCRIPTION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, Greenville presents Retranslation\, a group exhibit and critique of colonialism and the traditional archive. Artists Rosalba Breazeale\, Bonnie Han Jones and Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sanchez each cultivate a community influenced by their own personal journeys as transnational adoptees. By breaking apart stereotypical narratives through the creation and translation of their own archives\, they challenge the trope of adoptees lacking identity. Together\, these artists utilize their intersectional positionality to examine indigeneity\, activism and identity in their work\, their in-betweenness becoming both end point and a catalyst for agency. \nThe opening reception will be Friday\, March 6 and there will be a virtual artist talk on March 12 at 5pm in conjunction with El Centro\, University of South Carolina Upstate.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/retranslation/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:SIRENS
DESCRIPTION:SIRENS \nTiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is excited to announce our next exhibition\, SIRENS. This exhibition features work by artists and new Tiger Strikes Asteroid members Michaela Pilar Brown\, Zen Cohen\, Rebecca Forstater\, Hani Le\, and Dana Potter. Through installation and digital transformation\, the exhibition investigates virtual landscapes and the ways environments\, both physical and digital\, are constructed. The artists use the gallery as a site to examine the reciprocal relationship between the digital world and the individual: how digital experiences shape us\, and how we\, in turn\, shape them. The exhibition will run December 5th to January 9th at our gallery located in The Lofts of Greenville and Monaghan Mill. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday\, December 5th from 6-10 pm. \nMichaela Pilar Brown Michaela Pilar Brown’s installation Dancing Time is focused on grief and its relationship to the landscape. It’s an exploration of Black American burial rituals and ancestor reverence. She has chosen material gathered from land occupied by her family for more than two centuries\, where her ancestors lived\, loved and toiled. The primary element uses cedar trees historically planted at grave sites as a symbol of everlasting life\, and includes bones\, reflective material\, sound and moving images to punctuate the deep and abiding connection to the life cycles of the land and the human tendency toward the collection of momentos. \nZen Cohen’s Southern Oracle is an interactive video installation made in response to the acceleration of machine learning\, the magnitude of digital images rendered daily using this technology\, and the role of the human collaborator in this hyper production. The installation utilizes a monitor lying flat on a pedestal underneath a suspended endoscope to perform video feedback. The viewer/participant is invited to infiltrate the video signal by moving their hands under the camera to generate additional feedback currents across the screen. Video feedback requires subtle camera movements for the image to continuously replicate itself and generate complex patterns\, textures\, and color variations. When users interact with their hands\, skin tones generate dynamic variations in color and patterns. This interactivity is further mediated using TouchDesigner\, a visual programming software designed for the installation to mix pre-recorded video clips of different water bodies (oceans\, waterfalls\, and floods). These video clips combined with the live camera\, simulate additional currents or visual occurrences across the screen. Throughout the exhibit\, interactions with the installation will be recorded to produce media files for extracting still frames for printmaking. In total\, the installation and its iterative process of echoing digital images\, functions as a generative machine. \nRebecca Forstater’s {Training_camp} examines the creation of public memory in the current AI-fueled rat race through the lens of pop-culture history. The works from Version 2.0 displayed in this exhibition focus on photographed moments of crisis involving female celebrities in the early 2000s that circulated widely as entertainment through early digital media. Forstater utilizes the materiality of emerging AI software to create these works\, asking the training models to contextualize the past given the algorithm’s present pool of data. The results\, imagery deeply rooted in social and cultural narratives surrounding gender\, serve as a case study of biased ideologies embedded in our digital social consciousness. The objects and videos visualize peculiar amalgamations\, attempting to reverse the uncomfortable\, revealing fleeting instances of progress entangled with societal mistakes\, and shapeshifting into new iterations. \nHani Le’s Ode to the Perfect Unicorn in My DM’s — She is the perfect friend\, she is the comforting big sister\, digital confidant\, the secret you keep in your pocket\, the one to spill all your heartfelt fears to; She is the elusive\, ideal unicorn you are looking for. A virtual stranger that becomes a friend that becomes a confidant then turns into a flattened digital deity whose messages comfort your every woes. This unicorn is an avatar of netizens who fold themselves into the role of the therapist friend\, the always-there friend\, the instant notification bubble of comfort for someone spilling their sorrows. A feedback loop spawns of the sacrificial slivers one shows the internet of themselves—echoed back by the internet denizens who know only that persona—ritualizes these beings into an iconistic form. This unicorn lives a self-condemned existence trapped in an idyllic virtual landscape\, cursed to forever play confidant to all they come across. \nDana Potter’s Am I the Only One Freaking Out Right Now is a video installation presented on a cellphone and TV display. A sequence of screen recordings from TikTok\, focusing on a single\, seemingly mundane product: tubing mascara. Potter collected hundreds of videos of people applying\, removing\, discussing\, and promoting the mascara. The product’s popularity online is tied to its visual appeal in video: the act of removing the mascara with hot water\, produces a black pigment that streaks down the cheeks. Watching someone do this is visually engaging and the action is reproducible. To emphasize this repetition and spectacle\, Potter collages the original screen recordings in repeated and mirrored patterns which mimic kaleidoscopes or fun-house mirror \nAbout TSA GVL\nTiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501(c)(3) 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.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/sirens/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Opening Reception "Surviving the Burn: Room to Breathe"
DESCRIPTION:Artist Reception\nSaturday\, October 18th\, 3-6p \nArtist Talk\nSaturday\, October 18th\, 4-5p \nDerrick Beasley is an artist living in Durham\, NC. Beasley’s work includes sculpture\, photographic collage\, painting and social practice to immerse viewers in the speculative vision and material reality of the world he is designing. Beasley is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University Sociology program and the Georgia State University Masters in Public Administration Program. He uses this background and his 20 years of experience as an organizer\, educator and his deep commitment to being in right relationship with the non-human world to shape his art practice and overall engagement with community. \nTiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville is excited to present: Surviving the Burn; Room to Breathe\, our next exhibition by Durham-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Beasley. The exhibition explores a speculative future shaped by a reframed Black masculinity – one that exists in a deep\, reciprocal relationship with the non-human world. Spanning painting\, sculpture\, photography and film\, Beasley maps a future where people have embraced ways of being that challenge expected ideas of survival and identity. The exhibition asks – and answers – who survives “the burn” – and how communities adapt\, resist\, and thrive in its aftermath. Room to Breathe is informed by histories and fictions of fugitivity and marronage\, particularly within North Carolina and other wetland geographies. These layered narratives intersect with contemporary social justice organizing efforts that operate from a world-building perspective. The work in this exhibition blends speculative technologies\, cultural artifacts\, and the persistence of Southern cultures\, encouraging viewers to rethink survival as transformation\, rooted in community\, history\, and care. \nThe exhibition was supported by TSA GVL member Sterling Bowen.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/artist-talk-opening-reception-surviving-the-burn-room-to-breathe/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Call 2026: Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville Call for Solo & 2-Person Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is pleased to announce our 2026 open call for a solo or two-person exhibition in our gallery space in Greenville\, SC. Running January 24 – February 28\, 2026\, this year’s call is broadly themed around boundaries\, interpreted in the widest sense. We welcome exhibition submissions from individual and two-person artist groups to apply. As a national organization\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid is committed to highlighting the breadth and range of artists within our community\, and encourages historically underrepresented perspectives and viewpoints to apply. All applicants will be considered for future programming in our space\, with finalists being notified. \nThis cycle\, we are interested in hosting exhibitions that address contemporary themes of boundaries. Boundaries can be physical\, emotional\, cultural\, social\, political\, personal\, geographical\, material\, formal\, and more. As a framework\, we hope to showcase how boundaries shape\, limit\, and transform. Proposals that speak to the theme will be prioritized\, and we welcome broad and unexpected interpretations. \nSubmission guidelines: \n– Open to artists over 18\, working in all mediums\, who are not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program. \n– A non-refundable submission fee of $30* for up to five images representative of work for the exhibition. \n– The selected artist will be juried by the members of TSA GVL. \n– All artwork submitted must be completed and ready to hang or install. \n– Submissions must be completed by the deadline for consideration. \nImportant Dates: \n– Deadline: October 10\, 2025 \n– Exhibition Dates: January 24 – February 28\, 2026 \n– Install Dates: January 13 – 23\, 2026 \n– Deinstall Dates: March 1 – 3\, 2026 \n– Artist Reception: First Friday\, February 6\, 2026\, 6 – 9 pm \n*Your submission fee directly contributes to the operating expenses for our volunteer-run non-profit art organization. Thank you for your support. We do not want the fee to be a barrier to anyone who wishes to apply\, and offer application fee waivers on request. Please email us: greenville@tigerstrikesasteroid.com
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/open-call-2026-tiger-strikes-asteroid-greenville-call-for-solo-2-person-exhibition/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calls for Art,Calls For Artists,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibit: Third Terrain Opening Reception at TSA
DESCRIPTION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) and Wofford College are excited to announce our next exhibition\, Third Terrain. This exhibition includes artists Federico Cuatlacuatl\, Emilio Rojas\, and Martín Wannam\, whose lives and practices traverse North America\, cultivating a transnational understanding of landscape. Through critical performance and speculative world-building\, the exhibition centers decolonial ethics rooted in ancestral knowledge\, liberation\, and justice for migrant and diasporic communities. The artists imagine a third terrain as a layered\, relational site where histories collide and futures can be reimagined. \nThird Terrain inhabits two exhibition locations in two different South Carolina cities; the Richardson Family Museum at Wofford College\, Spartanburg\, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, Greenville. Adopting the structure of theater\, each exhibition venue contains a distinct “act.” Act I\, housed in the museum\, interrogates monuments not as fixed structures\, but as contested sites of power that can be challenged or dismantled. Act II\, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, envisions new landscapes emerging from the shadows of history\, projecting indigenous practice beyond the present. Across both acts\, Third Terrain unfolds a multiplicity of timelines: ancestral\, historical\, and speculative\, that are entangled in the ongoing struggle for decolonial futurity. The exhibition is curated by members Michael Webster\, Kiley Brandt\, and Michael Borowski. \nAct I of the exhibition will run from September 11 to December 15\, 2025 in the Rosalind S. Richardson Center for the Arts\, located at Wofford College in Spartanburg\, SC. Wofford College will host a panel talk\, free and open to the public\, on September 11th at 5pm\, with a reception to follow. \nAct II of the exhibition will run September 12 to October 11\, 2025 at the Tiger Strikes Asteroid gallery located in The Lofts of Greenville and Monaghan Mill. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday\, September 12th from 6-8 pm.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/art-exhibition-third-terrain/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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