But we can’t say what we’ve seen: Natessa Amin and Mark Brosseau
October 13 to November 4, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday October 13, 7-10pm

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is excited to announce their next exhibition,But we can’t say what we’ve seen, featuring the works of TSA LA artist-member Mark Brosseau and Philadelphia artist Natessa Amin. The show will feature new paintings and sculptural works by both artists that explore ideas of how our perceptual experiences of the world are more complicated than any developed written or spoken language can address. It will open on Saturday, October 13th and run to Sunday, November 4th, with an opening reception on October 13th from 7 to 10 PM. The exhibition will be accompanied by an essay from painter Rubens Ghenov.

But we can’t say what we’ve seen (taken from the Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere”) brings together these two artists who both use artmaking to explore how textcan be inadequate when trying to understand our experiences. Words are used to name things as a way of describing them, when in fact that naming process removes all that is unique from an experience. For example, describing something as a mountain tells us very little about what is specific to that experience. A more complex and abstract language is needed to truly begin to understand and communicate our experiences.

Amin and Brosseau both work in a way where the decisions in their work, both formal and material, force them to keep questioning what they have seen. This holds them accountable to the specifics of the spaces around them and what it means to inhabit those spaces. Their practices are ways of activating memories and allow them to constantly reevaluate their experiences within the context of their current state.

Natessa Amin lives and works in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from Boston University and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the Philadelphia-based artist-run space Fjord. She has exhibited internationally, with a solo exhibition at the Berman Museum of Art. She is currently the Visiting Studio Artist at Moravian College.

Mark Brosseau is a remote artist-member of TSA LA. He did his undergraduate study at Dartmouth College and received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 before receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to spend a year painting and making prints in Iceland. He has exhibited nationally, with his most recent solo and two-person shows at University of South Carolina Upstate, and The Neon Heater, respectively. He lives and works in Greenville, SC and teaches at Clemson University.