Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Who Sells Color, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Sun You, alongside material accumulation(s) / practice time, a series of performances by Ella Dawn W-S, curated by Sunmi Yong.

Who Sells Color 
I have been thinking about size in art. I produce art that accommodates life, avoiding excess size. I aim for a modest sublime without extreme transformation.

In my work, I prioritize flexibility and lightness. My work does not demand fixed production sites; it can be easily packed and spontaneously created within the spaces and materials at hand. For this exhibition I chose to go small, dotting the gallery with small polymer clay sculptures that leave ample room for viewers to wander and explore. At first glance, the exhibition may appear almost empty, but this is an invitation: to look more closely, to engage with the works one on one, to have an experience that is both intimate and deliberate.

The sculptures are the result of simple manipulations: clay is pulled, cut, scattered, flattened with a rolling pin, only using familiar domestic tools like a cake knife and Parchment paper. These sculptures are then baked in batches in my home oven, in Queens, NY; Seoul, South Korea, and Easton, PA.

-Sun You

material accumulation(s)/practice time, 2024
In conjunction with the wall sculptures of Sun You, Ella Dawn W-S will engage with the inverse center space of the gallery, the open floor, considering the smallness of a performative gesture as well as the legibility of its act within a public space, or a practice space, or a performance space.

Over the span of five weeks, Dawn W-S will engage with the gallery as a rehearsal room, revealing/developing pieces of her choreographic score one at a time, accumulating physical and movement material along the way. By placing her body in dialogue with You’s works, she will offer a continual gesture towards transformation, both concrete and obscure, through body-based practices. Collaborators will be invited to observe or engage in an ongoing way.

- Sunmi Yong

Sun You is a Seoul born, New York based artist. You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Geary, Millerton, NY, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and The Suburban, Chicago, IL. You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She is one of three recipients of the Korean Art Foundation, AHL Contemporary Visual Art Award 2022. You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Korea Times, Modern Painters and Widewalls.

Ella Dawn W-S is a dancer and choreographer living in Brooklyn. She presents work under the name Dancews. As a performer, she's had the honor of working with Malcom-x Betts, Lu Yim, Josie Bettman, Vita Taurke, Lavinia Eloise Bruce, SECT, inc., Erik Thurmond, Phoebe Berglund, and Kiera Bono. Her work has been presented at University Settlement, Governors Island, Weisacres, and the gallery ‘Putty’s Coronation’.

Sunmi Yong is an independent curator, producer, translator, and writer from Seoul, currently based in Harlem. With a whimsical flair, she collaborates with artists to explore a wide array of movements in the minoritarian, quotidian, queer, diasporic, and microbial, all centered on performance. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.