Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Alma Star: Love is All Things, the inaugural New York solo exhibition for this Pocono-based artist. All works shown embody Star’s identity as incarnate death. She began to recognize this role after experiencing loss and grief, which began a process of healing and self-realization. All works that she makes are extensions of this. Death for some is a frightening word, however through the works in this exhibition, viewers are invited to consider and see this concept not as negative. Rather, death can be peace, relief, transition, and change. She hopes to be seen as a friend in times of turmoil.

Star regularly collaborates with a consciousness who is her soul kin and represents death as eternal, Azrael. The works in this presented reflect these collaborations, other transcendent connections and experiences of the artist, sacred language and sacred space. Drawings, writings, audio documentation of spirit communication, touchable soft sculpture, garments and a recreation of an altar-like installation from the artist’s personal space are included in this exhibition. Red light bathes the gallery and defines it as a spiritual environment. Touch, hearing and sight, what the artist describes as “selective psychic senses,” emphasize the human body’s physical instincts to connect and initiate soul communication. Artifacts included in the installation create a sense of intimacy. Some of these objects come from generational relationships and others the artist collected in Peru, Philadelphia and the Poconos, PA.

During the live channeling session on the last day of the show, Star will, as she describes, “tune in” with Azrael as they invite the audience to engage with them on creativity, eternity, the soul, and collective histories. Sessions often conclude with the reminder that, “love is all things.”

Alma Star is of Peruvian indigenous ancestry and maintains a unique relationship with the dead and lives an unusual life with spirit. Star’s work focuses on documenting the personal encounters and discussions she collects from her experiences. She achieved her MFA in Fine Arts in 2016 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and has lead workshops at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts in Philadelphia. She currently teaches art at Northampton Community College and Muhlenberg College.