PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its June exhibition, featuring new work by Clint Jukkala and Mia Rosenthal.

Clint Jukkala’s abstract paintings use pop colors and a slightly shaky hand to explore relationships between color and space. His newer work focuses exclusively on rectangles-within-rectangles, pushing the color harmonies and spatial tensions to the foreground of the paintings.

Mia Rosenthal will be showing a series of two-sided drawings based off of postcards she sent to her late uncle. Rosenthal is using items that are personal to her as source material for the first time; typically she draws her source materials from consumer culture, such as the QVC channel or the cereal aisle. Viewers are encouraged to pick up and handle these drawings to break down the barrier between the viewer and the drawing.

Mia Rosenthal holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her drawing Breakfast cereals of this great nation recently appeared at Arcadia University’s Works on Paper 2009 show, juried by João Ribas, where she received the Beaver College prize and acquisition consideration for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as chosen by Ann Percy, curator of Prints and Drawings . Other recent shows include Guilty Pleasures at Projects Gallery, 50 very small works at Gallery Joe, and a faculty exhibition at University of the Arts. Mia Rosenthal lives and works in South Philadelphia, PA.

Clint Jukkala holds a BFA from the University of Washington and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. He recently had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York and FP3 Gallery in Boson. Jukkala has been included in numerous group shows throughout the United States as well as abroad, most recently at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Barrington, and Galerie-Tamer in Paris. He is currently assistant professor of painting/printmaking and director of undergraduate studies in art at Yale University. Jukkala lives and works in New Haven, CT.