Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present Full Bit, featuring artists Sarah Sarchin and Meghan Smythe and curated by TSA LA member Brittany Mojo. This exhibition, which explores the relationship between bodies through their histories, looks to antiquity and the record of the gendered body throughout traditional archetypes. Sarchin and Smythe examine the role of bodily representation in art, history, and culture. The show runs from September 8th to October 7th, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 8th, from 7 to 10 PM.

Interested in similar palettes, the works are awash and subtle in their surface. Full Bit merges dense content through gesture, where the work maintains qualities of being quick and determined despite being labored and practiced. A youthful opposition to material control confronts established painting and sculpture while creating a palpable discord between the works themselves - where Smythe’s aggressive hand conflicts with Sarchin’s slight hand - creating a range of material experience.

Sarah Sarchin is a painter and sculptor. Her work describes a notion of the feminine that is changeable, comedic, and vastly complex. She repurposes postures from antiquity, art history, and pop culture, using these ubiquitous poses as armatures on which to build painterly and personal information. The work foregrounds the problem of having a body, the tension between public and private life, and the gaps between a nostalgic past and a lived present. Sarchin received her MFA in painting from the University of California Los Angeles in 2016. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Meghan Smythe is a ceramicist and sculptor. She is interested in exploring questions relating to maleness, A New Feminine and androgyny through the overt depictions of health and beauty in the exposure of young men in Classical Greek sculpture. Using the tradition of the monument, she employs ceramic, glaze, plastic, and epoxy to find a blending of touch and style choices: a language of inclusion, a generative gesture, an archetype. Born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Smythe recieved her MFA in Ceramics Arts from Alfred University in 2011. Smythe has shown actively since 2014, most recently at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse NY, the Marjory Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, and at LBMAx in Long Beach. Smythe is represented by Mark Moore Fine Art. She currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA.