Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present I come from a place… a group show featuring the work of Amanda Bradley, María del Mar Hernández Gil de Lamadrid, Jasmine Veronica and curated by Andrea Sofia Matos. This group exhibition features three Caribbean diaspora artists in photography, new media, and video art. Inspired by Edwidge Danticat's words above, the show digs into personal identity through light, landscape, water, and memory.

Memory takes the spotlight, a record that paradoxically distorts with the passage of time. Many artists before them have explored landscape memory, showing how places gain meaning from the past. Here, Amanda, María del Mar, and Jasmine skillfully incorporate imagery and fragmented scenes from their archives of personal history, challenging the selective nature of recollection. This deliberate distortion becomes a thematic thread, inviting contemplation on the malleability of our remembered past.

The exhibition explores the belief that memory can transcend the human mind, finding a dwelling within the material world, with a common link in water. The artists’ work becomes a vessel, bending time and space to forge a new landscape that seamlessly blends the past and present. It serves as a bridge between spaces – the confinement of one and the liberation of another.

Amanda Bradley is a Belizean American artist. She received a BFA in Photography from New World School of the Arts. Her work explores place and landscape as a means to connect and understand identity, belonging, histories, and relationships. Photographs are central to the work, which sometimes expands to include sculpture, installation, video and other alternative forms of printing and photographic processes. Selected Solo exhibitions include The land remembers the flood at FAR Contemporary Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, Florida (2021), From One Sea at Mt Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida (2021), Further than Memory, Intimate Distances at Artmedia Gallery, Miami, Florida (2019). Selected group exhibitions include It was Always About You, at Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida (2023), The Measure of Time, at Artmedia Gallery, Miami, Florida (2023), Residential Properties 2.0 at Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Mami, FL (2023), Cultural Currents III at Readytex Gallery, Paramaribo, Suriname (2023), BluPrint at Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL (2022), A Meeting Place for Women in Photography in Miami, FL (2021), Work from Home at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida (2020), amongst others. Bradley was a DVCAI Artist-in-residence in Suriname in 2023, WOPHA Artist-in-residence at Faena in 2020 and participated in the Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Oolite Arts in 2019, she was a resident artist at Bakehouse Art Complex from 2018-2020 and is a two time Suncoast Regional Emmy award winner for her work on the films "Sasha Wortzel: Mining the Gaps" and "1402: Pork & Bean Blue."

María del Mar Hernández Gil de Lamadrid is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist based between Puerto Rico and New York City. Using photography and video as a creative and conceptual process, her work approaches ideas of home and identity, mediated representation, colonial history, and climate change in a Caribbean context. She is a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, from Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Photoville, Brooklyn, and Pingyao International Photography Festival, China. Recently, she participated in the group exhibitions Under Our Feet As Above Our Heads, The Revival Romanesque Row House Gallery, and We Are Here To Serve You, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, NYC.

Jasmine Veronica is a Jamaican-American visual artist from West Palm Beach, FL, living in Syracuse, NY. She explores the complexities of care, memory, and familial relationships using photography, video, installation, and the archive. Jasmine Veronica received her BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. She will be graduating with her MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University in May of 2024.  Jasmine Veronica received the Aperture and Google Creator Labs Photo Fund in 2021. She has also participated in exhibitions at LightWork (Syracuse, NY), Common Space (Syracuse, NY), and SAIC Galleries (Chicago, IL). Her work has been featured on online platforms DerGreif, Lenscratch, Office Magazine, and Vogue Italia. Her short film I Am Your Daughter has been showcased at Samkofa 2 at Photodom and Film Diary NYC III: Coldest Winter.

Andrea Sofia Matos is a curator and arts administrator based in New York City. She is currently a graduate student in the Visual Arts Administration program at New York University (2024). She received her BA in Art History and Photography from Florida International University (2021). Born and raised in Bayamón, Puerto Rico her work focuses on the art from the Caribbean and their diasporas.

Most recently she curated “BotanicÁrte” a group exhibition at Taller Boricua that explores the role of artists as healers, showcasing their unique contributions to integrative wellness and activism. “At Summer’s End,” a group exhibition of NY-based artists at 17 Frost Gallery in Brooklyn, “IN-ANIMADA” a solo exhibition at Galería SPACE in Guaynabo, PR by artist William Norris Pagán and was the curatorial assistant of the exhibition “Swagger & Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres” at the Bronx Museum of Art. She has also worked and collaborated with multiple organizations such as Puerto Rico Art News, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, LnS Gallery, The Margulies Collection, The Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), Locust Projects, and more. Currently, Andrea Sofia is the Arts & Wellness Coordinator at Urban Health Plan where she is piloting a social prescribing program in the South Bronx and finding ways to integrate art into the primary care facility.