Catching Light

May 31 - Jul 12, 2025 

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is thrilled to welcome our 2025 Curatorial Fellow, Wit López, presenting "Catching Light." The exhibition features works by Jasmine Hamilton and Josh W.

In the field of photography, a catch light refers to the way that the eyes of a subject reflect a source of light, gifting them with a gleam that the viewer often associates with the beauty and fullness of life. Though this exhibition is not a photographic one, Catching Light makes space for the ways that artists Jasmine Hamilton (she/her) and Josh W (he/they) use their practices in painting and illustration, respectively, to reflect the beauty and fullness of their own Black, queer lives.

The two artists use their artistic substrates (the variety of surfaces to which art is applied) as biological substrates (the variety of surfaces where living organisms thrive and act) by capturing the myriad experiences that have shaped their individual lives. As cultivators outside of their artistic practices, Jasmine as a farmer and Josh as an “Afro-Theologian of Sorts, ” each artist uses their visual work as fertile ground to sow the seeds of their lives and to perform an exegesis of the self as memoir.

Catching Light also strives to act as a foundation for rememory and conversation between the work of Jasmine Hamilton and Josh W In the way that a catch light reflects light in the eyes, the aspirational objective of this exhibition is to reflect the light and life captured by the artists to each other and the audience, as they navigate the troubles of the world to delve into themes of same gender loving, Black spirituality, community building, introspection, and bearing witness.