Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is excited to open Sun Dial, a two-person exhibition featuring work by Kara Joslyn and Christian Tedeschi, organized by TSA LA member Liz Nurenberg, on Saturday, March 17th, with an opening reception from 7 - 10 PM.

This show explores time, illusion, and a physical record of memory. Through material processes, the work vividly and actually captures objects. Both artists form a unique relationship to frozen motion through representation and surface. The experience shifts between 2D and 3D and from illusion to impression. Kara Joslyn’s airbrush paintings softly build up layers of paint to encapsulate time and creased memory. The depiction of meticulously folded paper sculptures in a rich chiaroscuro creates a new space for the once popular craft activity. The light and shadow illuminate a history of movement and process. Christian Tedeschi’s cast objects seal in the forms they steal surfaces from and hold them as relics frozen in time. The balance between made object and found object opens a physical negotiation of function and poetic narrative. The surfaces tell stories about the binding devices that mold the forms. In this collection of work, both artists hold a place of importance for the object. They use materials and processes to form a new proposition and variation on still life.

Kara Joslyn is a Los Angeles based artist, born and raised in San Diego, CA. She recently completed her MFA at UC San Diego (2016) after post-baccalaureate studies in Painting at Columbia University, NYC, and undergraduate studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA.

Joslyn is a nominee for the 2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and was two-time nominee for the Robert Motherwell Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. She received the Russell Foundation Grant in 2014 for her work with Holography at UCSD. Her work is part of public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Barrick Museum, Las Vegas and has been shown in numerous spaces and institutions. 

Exhibitions recently include at BBQ LA (Los Angeles), 356 Mission (Los Angeles), The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Barrick Museum (Las Vegas), Bizkaia Aretoa University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain), Land and Sea (Oakland), SPF 15 Exhibitions (San Diego), Alter Space Gallery (San Francisco) for Material Art Fair (Mexico City), Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles), LVL3 (Chicago), and Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles).
Upcoming exhibitions: solo presentation with Bozo Mag (Los Angeles), and group shows at Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco), Central Park Gallery (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and TSA (Los Angeles). 

Christian Tedeschi was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in New Jersey. He lived and worked in Philadelphia, PA, Detroit MI then Boulder, CO and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and his BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

Tedeschi’s work is interdisciplinary in nature and utilizes a variety of materials. Fabricated and found objects, sounds, and smells are employed as a means to create a varied body of sculpture and installation. Rooted in material and object /spatial poetics as well as deconstruction and re-contextualization. He fabricates, alters and reinterprets objects and situations to create psychoactive forms, narratives and experiences.

Tedeschi is an Associate Professor in studio art at California State University, Northridge, CA http://www.christiantedeschi.net