IRREVOCABLE MARK
Works by Michael DeLucia, Jeffrey Scott Mathews, and Klea McKenna
Curated by Jaime Alvarez and Anne Schaefer
April 4 – April 27, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 2014, 6pm -10pm

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PHILADELPHIA, PA-
Tiger Strikes Asteroid presents Irrevocable Mark, with work by Michael DeLucia, Jeffrey Scott Mathews and Klea McKenna, curated by Jaime Alvarez and Anne Schaefer. Please join us for the opening reception Friday, April 4, 2014, 6-10pm.

Irrevocable Mark examines the work of three artists in which a specific technology is paramount to the resultant work. While this element is unique for each artist, their exhibited works are unified by an impossibility of revision or exact repetition due to the procedural framework of the artists’ practices, complicated by the often uncontrollable characteristics of their chosen substrate.  Each artist takes a leap of faith in the making of his or her work, knowing that the success or failure of the final work will be absolute and irrevocable upon the press of a button, the click of a mouse, or an irreversible manual fold of paper. When process meets a substrate with unique tactility, the resultant image, object or experience transcends the steps and reveals a singular, unrepeatable result that would not otherwise exist so precisely.

Michael DeLucia’s sculptures explore the compression and subsequent unflattening of form into the surface of plywood. Value, texture, gradient and depth are encoded in to the material’s surface through machine-routed strokes. The works appear clinical and precise, but looking under the layers where the material is exposed, one is confronted with entropy. His work has been exhibited at Eleven Rivington (NY), Galerie Nathalie Obadia (France), and Socrates Sculpture Park (NY). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Jeffrey Scott Mathews’ interdisciplinary studio practice generates paintings, drawings, tapestries and sound. The embroidered work included in this exhibition records drawings on to cloth through the assistance of an embroidery machine. The imagery along with its interaction with the burlap substrate speaks to both the corporeal and the spiritual. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States including a recent solo show at Sadie Halie Projects (NY). He has additionally exhibited at Jolie Ladie (PA),  Blackston (NY), Center for Creative Studies (MI), and Pop Gallery (CA). Upcoming projects include an audio cassette tape release with Metaphysical Circuits in the Spring of 2014. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Klea McKenna employs alternative photographic processes to respond to the landscape around her.  While the viewer may not see a traditional photograph, McKenna does in fact record the experience of the topographic light-scape through standard photographic means. She is co-founder and contributor to the website IN THE MAKE, a collaboration that offers an intimate look at current art practice through studio visits with West Coast artists. She has exhibited at Regina Rex (NY), Datz Museum of Art (South Korea), Zic Zerp Galerie (Netherlands), Von Lintel Gallery (NY), and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PA). She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.