PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its November exhibition, a two person show featuring the work of Jess Perlitz and Jared Clark.

Clark will be showing a grid of soap bars and a corresponding grid of soap dust that will fill the gallery with a strong olfactory presence. The work both responds to and pokes fun at the cold purity of Carl Andre’s installations as well as Wolfgang Laib’s dust works, merging the more Platonic elements of classic minimalism with the phenomenological, creating an experience that is ethereal and earthly, but not overly serious.

Perlitz will be showing an interactive piece made up of flags, an air raid siren, and a curved steel pipe shaped like a snake eating its own tail. Viewers will be able to crank the air raid siren, which is attached to the curved steel pipe, but the resulting siren will be muffled and unable to escape the pipe loop, becoming a gesture of frustrated heroicism.

Jared Clark received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Daedalus Fellowship from the Robert Motherwell Foundation, a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and recently completed a residency at Kompact Living Space in Berlin. His work has been shown nationally, including recent shows at Garfo Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah and Black and White Gallery in New York. He is currently represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and Mulherin & Pollard in New York. Clark lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jess Perlitz received her MFA from Tyler and was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2009. Her work was recently in group shows at David Krut Projects and at Heidi Cho Gallery, both in New York. She currently has work at Socrates Sculpture Park as part of their Emerging Artist fellowship program. Perlitz lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.