“I've come to understand myself from a frame of reference that carries multiple time stamps, some of which conflict with each other (e.g., indigenous, non-indigenous, or Chi’xi senses of time). Chi’xi refers to the sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s term, meaning ‘motley’—to exist simultaneously, which is not to be confused with ‘hybridity’ when relating to culture.” ~Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III

“This process is repeated with most aspects of the work until the picture is exhausted into near completion. At this point in my practice, images I drew 20 years ago are just now being married to recently taken photographs.” ~Brian Hubble

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is thrilled to present a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Brian Hubble and Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III. In 2024 it goes almost without saying that we all experience tremendous fragmentation at every level of our lived experience, but for some this is not necessarily something to lament. Artist have long dealt with the effects of late modernism on the fabric of everyday life, but there seems to be an emerging trend in how artists address and are empowered by this fragmentation, harnessing the apparent dissolution of narrative, identity, time, place, space, and even meaning, as is the case with the work of Brian Hubble and Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III. 

Both artists work with imagery culled from various facets and locations in their life, creating an almost unlimited palette of sensory experiences mediated through two of the oldest art forms, drawing and painting. Brian Hubble is interested in an alchemical layering and obliterating of imagery using photographic images and drawings that span decades of his life and include various periods in his creative evolution. Sanchez uses painting to explore both his own personal history in the form of family photographs and landscape photography of places that are emotionally significant to him, but he chooses to complicate the process of representation by taking cues from various anthropological and sociological theorists in how we understand concepts like linear time and the interaction of divergent cosmologies between western and non-western cultures. Hubble seems to favor a more process-based approach playing with imagery as if it were sedimentary layers, mining the western canon for tropes, trophies, and formal narratives that create a visual palimpsest that is at once personal, anthropological, and art historical. Sanchez establishes a multiverse composed of varying levels of floating imagery that are specifically designed to subvert western notions of time, narrative legibility, and issues of class and identity in the process of representation, referencing a wide range of theorists across disciplines.

In both cases the artists’ handy work is as dazzling as it is confounding. Hubble reveals a deep commitment to the grit and labor of graphite and charcoal drawing practices as their material prima facie, showing both the patina of hard work and the perfection of the imperfect. Sanchez revels in the soft beauty of shapes and colors exquisitely calibrated and rendered in oil paint to unify his imagery. Any visual dissonance that the viewer feels from the overlapping imagery in his paintings is quickly sublimated by pure joy in the technical mastery with which the paint is applied. In the end fragmentation yields surprising visual rewards and the realm of personal insights becomes a form of luscious generosity for the viewer.  

Brian Hubble has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for over 20 years, with stints in Torbole, Italy and Chicago, IL. He has participated in exhibitions at The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, Italy; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; and Lévy Gorvy (now LGDR), New York, NY. His life’s work was realized as an exhibition at The Museum of the Moving Image with I Trusted You: Andy Kaufman on the Edge of Performance, the result of a 16-year study of the life and work of the famed comedian. He has also exhibited at MoMA PS1 in collaboration with The Bruce High Quality Foundation, where he made and gave away postcard size screen printed monochromes from the back of his pickup truck to museum-goers. From 2016-2019, Hubble served as co-founder and director of Unisex Salon, an artist operated gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where he mounted a wide range of exhibitions of underrepresented artists. His work has been featured in publications such as Print Magazine, C-Print Journal, and ArtNet. As an editorial artist, his work has been featured in Taschen, The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, The New York Times, M.I.T. Technology Review, Harvard Law Review, and Yale Alumni, amongst many others. He holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he was the recipient of the William Merchant R. French Fellowship. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA), Edge Hill University in Liverpool, UK, and The Illustration Academy in Richmond, VA.

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José Guadalupe Sánchez III is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in West Los Angeles. Relying heavily on self-reflexivity, his work is an investigation of the multilayered experiences of varying Brown social realities in Los Angeles spanning the past, present, and future. This includes looking at the structural nature of oppositional value systems, intelligences, subjectivities, and where they become validated or not. Sánchez attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California, as well as a Performance Studies Graduate Certificate and a Post-MFA Teaching Fellowship. He received his undergraduate degree from Otis College of Art and Design, where he double-minored in arts education and community engagement, and an Associate degree from Santa Monica Community College in Liberal Arts: Social and Behavioral Sciences. Sánchez has exhibited and performed in a variety of spaces including LA Freewaves, the Mistake Room, the Landing Gallery, CurateLA’s digital platform, Redcat Disney/CalArts Theater, USC Mateo Studios, Human Resources Gallery, 18th Street Art Center, UTA Artist Space, Plaza de la Raza, and more. He is currently serving as a tenure-track assistant professor at Occidental College in the Art & Art History department.

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