PHILADELPHIA – Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its July two-person exhibition, Manifest Destination: Andrew Prayzner and William Crump.  

Horizons play an important part in our psyche: personal, national; actual and imagined – they are a commitment to raising our eyes from immediacy, and casting hearts ahead of us. Our future is always out of our reach, but we can either hope and prepare for the best, or dread its crashing halt and terrible unfolding.  

In Andrew Prayzner’s painting series depicting captured drug trafficking mules, we see the exposed, raw ends of a dashed horizon hope. The intense desires of these captured and objectified humans that motivated them to traffic – for better lives; safer children; financial freedom – have suddenly clashed with the limitations of that risky trespassing: actual borders have collided with their horizons. And for William Crump, there is a bittersweet, wistful and perhaps naïve sense of the ongoing journey towards those horizons – his mountain folk and Kit Carsonesque explorers recall America’s pioneer past, but are a metaphor for all of us, as they survey and travel on towards a grand and abstract horizon; the search for our own heart’s nation within a nation.  

William Crump and Andrew Prayzner both live and work in New York, NY. Crump received his BFA from Ringling School of Art and Design, and has shown extensively both in New York and across the country. His most recent show was at Littlebird Gallery in LA. Prayzner holds an MFA from University of Pennsylvania, and has shown all along the Eastern seaboard, from CT to FL. He recently exhibited at Morsel Art Space, Long Island City, NY.