Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is excited to announce their next exhibition, the fifth show in their new West Greenville gallery space. Generously Entangled brings together the work of Codi Maddox, Emmanuel Manu Opoku, Michelle Laxalt, and Jiha Moon. The show is curated and organized by TSA GVL member matthew anthony batty.

In the movement and passing of threads, complex structures can be formed– structures that draw forth ritual, the observable now, and evoke the future. Practices of mindfulness braid together materials of earth and matter, narrative and exchange, nuance and pigment. These practices and materials become embodiments Generously Entangled in image and object. This exhibition explores the intertwining practices of aesthetic hybridity, material culture, and reciprocity through the paintings of Codi Maddox, the assemblages of Emmanuel Manu Opoku, and the ceramic collaboration of Michelle Laxalt & Jiha Moon.

Codi Maddox is an Atlanta-born self-taught artist. Her work focuses on themes of nostalgia, and Black cultural markers. Codi Maddox begins her work seeking to find a sense of self and reconnect to her identity. She looks to art as a way to express the complexity of her life thus far in all its nuances. Joy, sadness, identity, and experiences. 

Emmanuel Manu Opoku was born and raised in Kumasi, Ghana. He holds M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Florida in Gainesville and B.F.A. in Painting from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a recipient of the James J. Rizzi Studio Award, Harold Garde Studio Art Award, College of the Art Dean’s Award, and the Outstanding International Student Award. Emmanuel has participated in several exhibitions in Ghana and the United States. He currently lives in Gainesville, Fl.

Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea, and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.

Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an MFA as a Welch Fellow from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Through ceramics, textiles, and other sculptural media, Laxalt addresses the vulnerability we as humans share with animals and other living beings.

Laxalt has shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Notable venues include the Uşak Archeology Museum in Uşak, Turkey; the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Minsk, Belarus; Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA; MINT Gallery in Atlanta, GA; and the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, GA. She has given artist talks at Gallery 72 and MINT Gallery in Atlanta and has participated on artist panels at the Holland Project Gallery (Nevada), Georgia Tech (Atlanta), and Auburn University (Alabama). She has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (2016) and the Hambidge Center in North Georgia (2019). Laxalt was a 2019 MINT Leap Year Fellow and concluded her fellowship with her solo exhibition Husk. Upcoming group exhibitions in which Laxalt will exhibit include The Skull Show at Sheppard Contemporary (Reno, Nevada) and All In at the Holland Project Gallery (Reno, Nevada).