Iconologies opens at TSA on Thursday, January 9th, and runs through
Saturday, February 15th. The opening reception will be on January 9th
from 6-9pm, with an additional Second Thursday event on February 13th
from 6-9pm. Buckwalter, Dessauvage, and Simonson share an interest in
painting as a metaphysical medium. Each establishes a specific
allegorical or symbological framework within their practice: they use
the objects and spaces depicted as a means to consider both individual
identities and broader historical concerns. These works simultaneously
look backward and forward, evoking the visual language of late Gothic
and early Renaissance painting, while remaining firmly connected to
the present in their highly personal and idiosyncratic approaches to
their subjects. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to present
Iconologies, an exhibition featuring the work of Anne Buckwalter, Marc
Dessauvage and Zachary Simonson. These artists were chosen from a pool
of nearly 350 applicants to our 2019 Open Call. Inspired by traditions
of allegorical painting, Anna Buckwalter explores female identity and
the coexistence of contradictions. She arranges disparate objects in
ambiguous rooms and uncanny spaces. Subjects of the female body,
intimacy, and gender roles are woven through paradoxical and obscure
narratives in Buckwalter’s paintings. Anne Buckwalter received a BFA
from the Tyler School of Art in 2010 and an MFA from the Maine College
of Art in 2012. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff
Centre for Arts and Creativity, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the
Vermont Studio Center. In 2016, she received an Emerging Artist Grant
from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Her paintings have been featured in
New American Paintings, The Jealous Curator, and Create Magazine, and
her work has been exhibited in Boston, Montréal, Toronto,
Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome, among other cities. She
currently lives and works in Galveston, Texas, as a 2019-2020
artist-in-residence at the Galveston Artist Residency. Marc Dessauvage
plays with crises of meaning in iconography. His work looks to icons
as found objects. He dislocates them from their time and place, and
re-defines them through the visual language of cartooning to create
new intimate narratives. Rather than depicting biblical cycles, these
narratives represent conflicts in sexuality and identity through the
recurring figure of the angel. These ambiguous figures investigate
artifacts of the past that are abstracted, at once mysterious and
banal. The artist treats these objects as an armature to explore
cultural dysphoria and anxieties about history and identity. Marc
Dessauvage is a painter living and working in New York, NY. He
received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2017 and is currently
pursuing his M.Arch at The Harvard Graduate School of Design. Recent
exhibitions include a two-person show entitled “Object of Memory”
at Kirkland Gallery, as well as solo shows at Gallery Madison Park and
BAAA Gallery entitled “Figures and Objects”. Zachary Simonson ’s
works depict a romantic world that houses patterns of thinking. Using
isometric projection as a framework, these paintings are systems for
processing and organizing memory and longing. Simonson builds an
architectural landscape from observation and invention. These spaces
are occupied by thoughts, people and objects in the form of symbolic
characters, much like how a key is used on a map. These inhabitants
are simultaneously a notational system to analyze the details of his
own experience and narrative devices. Zachary Simonson was born in
Wisconsin, where he received his BFA in Painting from the University
of Wisconsin Whitewater. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia,
where he received his MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts. Recent group exhibition venues include Pentimenti Gallery
(Philadelphia, PA), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and Anna Zorina
Gallery (New York, NY).
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