PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its January exhibition, Due Diligence Done, featuring the work of Brandon Anschultz and John Tallman.

From the essay by Matthew Seppielli:

“Through their versatile and exploratory bodies of work, certain qualities persistently emerge that unify these artists despite their unique practices. One of these is a simplicity, which in a sense, mutes the artist’s intentions.

In Brandon Anschultz’s paintings and other works, splotches of pure oil paint sit isolated on the backs of unprimed canvases, drying to an even vein that seems less like a declaration and more like an inevitability. Through a sly mixture of specificity and ambiguity, these works make one question whether they are beautiful accidents or highly orchestrated gestures.

John Tallman’s works raise a similar question for the viewer. Are these works, whose surfaces make use of synthetic pigments and materials, laboriously built to their final incarnations or are they again done through a system that replicates this labor? For Tallman who is equally at home displaying his works on gallery walls as well as on the sides of the trees that surround his home in Tennessee we are presented with a question as opposed to an answer when we ask.”

Brandon Anschultz received his BFA from Louisiana Tech University and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has shown his work extensively, including recent solo shows at Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, MI), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago, IL), and Space Contemporary Art (Santa Ana, CA). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Taipei. He was recently featured in the September 2010 issue of Sculpture magazine.

John Tallman received his BFA from the Tyler School of Art and his MFA from the University of Washington. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at The Clough-Hanson Gallery (Memphis, TN), Green Line Art Projects (Philadelphia, PA) and the Abington Art Center (Jenkintown, PA). His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including shows in New York, Sydney, Berlin, and South Korea.