PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its December exhibition, a two person show featuring the work of Lucy Kim and Jeesoo Lee. Both of these artists are using the physicality of their materials to create spaces that are constantly in tension with themselves and their reference points.

Lucy Kim’s practice involves the manipulation of advertisements through simple, blunt physical actions. Interested in experiments that offer re-interpretations of the glossy flat spaces of luxury goods ads, she takes a back door approach by incorporating trompe l’eoil paintings of objects and people onto the surface of three dimensional foil, and then forcing them back into a flat image by crushing or unfolding the foil on which the objects are painted.

Jeesoo Lee bases her work on psychological states of being and redefines them through the physicality of her material. Her work creates a fragmented and chaotic space, one that is constantly unfolding upon itself, referencing, in her words, “the search for enlightenment and reason,” a messy reflection of thought and the psyche.

Lucy Kim received her MFA from Yale and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown nationally, including recent shows at Haskins Research Lab (New Haven, CT), Vaudeville Park (Brooklyn, NY), and the CSV Cultural Center (New York). Her work will be included in an upcoming exhibition at Regina Rex Gallery (Queens, NY). She has received numerous awards, including the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize from the Yale School of Art. Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Cambridge, MA.

Jeesoo Lee received her MFA from the State University of New York (New Paltz) and also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Sungshin Women’s University (South Korea). Her work has been shown throughout the United States, including recent solo exhibitions at Oregon State University and C3 Gallery (New York). Her work has been written about in The Chronogram and The New York Times. She was a recipient of the prestigious Thayer/Patricia Kerr Ross Award and a nominee for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Lee currently lives and works in New York.