Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is proud to present Snap, bend, bump, pop a solo exhibition of new and existing work by Miami-based artist, Denise Treizman. The exhibition is curated by Teresa Silva, TSA CHI member and co-director.

Balancing careful conception and intuitive assembly, Treizman creates ambitious wall-based sculptures and three-dimensional paintings. At times, incorporating woven pipe cleaners, bubble wrap, LED lights, fibers, iridescent paper, duct tape, and deflated balloons alongside discarded materials found in our urban, throwaway culture. Manipulating these materials, the artist uses the power of play to explore the boundlessness of color, form, and abstraction to generate feeling and meaning in space. It is an expression of emotions and actions that imbue the works with perceptions of chaos and control, both in the intricate details and as complete works. Treizman combines the visual strategies of painting, sculpture, and installation to produce works resisting the limitations that such terms imply. What’s more, her art impels the viewer to consider the materiality of our oversaturated consumer culture, one defined by its disposability and desirability.

Date for an artist talk to be announced.

About the artist

Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist, currently based in Miami. Treizman’s first museum solo show was exhibited at the Coral Springs Museum of Art in Florida in 2024. Her work has also been exhibited at PROTO GOMEZ Gallery, New York, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Penn State University, Pennsylvania; Latino Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; and Cuchifritos Gallery/Artist’s Alliance, New York, New York, Soho20 Gallery, New York, New York, PROTO Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey, among others. Her work was extensively exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art, for the 2023 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art.

Treizman has completed artist residencies at Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; NARS Foundation International Artists Residency, Brooklyn, New York; Triangle Workshop, Salem, New York; ACRE Residency, Steuben, Michigan; Ox-Bow Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, among others. In 2015, she was fellow at the Bronx’s Museum Artist in the Marketplace program, culminating with “The Bronx Calling”, a biennial exhibition at the museum. That same year, Treizman was awarded a studio residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City, where she developed her work until 2019. In 2016, Treizman created an interactive public artwork at Randall’s Island Park in New York, a commission awarded by the NYC Parks Alliance and the Bronx Museum for the Arts.

Treizman earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently a studio resident at Laundromat Art Space in Miami, Florida. Having lived in many densely populated cities over the years—Santiago, London, San Francisco, New York City, Haifa, and now Miami—her practice has stemmed from and benefited from throwaway culture.

About the curator

Teresa Silva is an independent curator, writer, and current co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago.