Minimum Space Requirements

Nov 27, 2020 – Jan 1, 2021

Presented by Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville and the Art Viewing Boxes in Asheville, NC

76 Gertrude Place, Asheville, NC
135 Lookout Drive, Asheville, NC
65 Kenilworth Road, Asheville, NC
74 Tacoma Circle, Asheville, NC
30 Virginia Avenue, Asheville, NC

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville is pleased to present MINIMUM SPACE REQUIREMENTS, an exhibition that brings together the work of MaDora Frey, Steven Pestana, Sophia Sobers, Charles Sommer, and Eric Tillinghast.

In May, 2020, TSA GVL members Suzanne Dittenber and Luke Whitlatch launched a new project: installing small art viewing boxes in residential areas throughout Asheville as a response to shuttered galleries and museums. TSA GVL continues to produce exhibitions bringing works of art to neighborhoods allowing pedestrians to view works of art close to home.

MINIMUM SPACE REQUIREMENTS is the newest exhibition to take place in the art viewing boxes. For this exhibition, artists created small-scale installations with the dimensions of the boxes in mind.

This show centers on reflection, motion, boundaries – metaphors for our COVID-riddled experiences. The boxes have windows on three sides allowing for a direct visual interaction with the immediate environment and enabling works to transform with the changing light throughout the day.

MADORA FREY’S piece addresses the limited circumference that has become a constant for most people due to COVID. Individuals are staying closer to home. Frey’s work uses reflective surfaces to mirror back to viewers their immediate and familiar surroundings.

STEVEN PESTANA created a stainless-steel piece entitled Chromatic Intervals. This belongs to a body of work that envisions an invisible dimension sputtering into our reality. In this cosmology, idea-energies travel through four-dimensional architectures and liquids, arriving into our world in distorted but perceptible forms and patterns. Here, objects reminiscent of a previous work (Chromatic Array) appear off-kilter atop a tessellated surface which literally mirrors the forms’ geometries.

SOPHIA SOBERS’ project Structures, Reflecting invokes a system of interlocking parts where 3D printing is used as the primary process to fabricate a structural web. The installation’s goal is to reflect the landscape through a structural system guided by rules such as “Each node (joint) can have up to 3 connection points” and “Each arm can be a length of 3.5, 4.75, or 6 inches.”  

CHARLES SOMMER’S work “Satellite no. 4 with Landscape” depicts a field of graphite with an array of graphite treated paper spikes and pyramids set against a graphite drawing on paper mounted on panel. The paper sculptures, as well as the drawing, are made to reflect the changing light of the day, revealing shifts in value while exposing subtle details from the mark making process.

ERIC TILLINGHAST created a miniature version of an installation that recalls the moment as a child when he leaned about centrifugal force, enabling you to swing a bucket of water over your head without spilling it. The artwork consists of a bucket of water suspended from a fixture on the ceiling that rotates, keeping the bucket up in the air and perpetually spinning around without spilling its contents.

When our circumference is limited, and our sphere of activity kept within tighter bounds, there’s a comfort in the reminder of forces that hold it all together.