JJ Miyaoka-Pakola: #Hashtag
July 22 - August 28, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, July 22nd

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to present #Hashtag, an exhibition of new paintings by JJ Miyaoka-Pakola opening on July 22, 2016. In this new body of work, Miyaoka-Pakola painstakingly renders dense arrangements of chromatically rich dots at a mind-bendingly minute scale. When taken as a whole, these atomized patterns subtly form the letters of commonly used acronyms and hashtags that are a ubiquitous part of the social media landscape. The resulting experience is both enthralling and unsettling, bringing to mind the exuberant promises of the digital age, which have succeeded in giving us ever increasing amounts of information, while failing to deliver greater meaning to our lives.