Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to present Pieced, a two-person show featuring Philadelphia-based painter Peter Allen Hoffmann and New Mexico quilter and interdisciplinary artist, Anne Wu. Pieced will run from August 5 through September 9, 2023, with an artists’ reception on August 10 from 6 to 9 pm, and a closing event on September 9 at 5pm.

The title of the show refers to the American quilting technique that inspires the work of both artists. Hoffmann’s restrained abstraction echoes their symbolic geometry, while Wu’s quilts use the piecing technique as a storytelling vehicle. The work in the show is consciously scaled to the human body – in Hoffmann’s case, to the size of a face, and in Wu’s, to the size of the outstretched form that a quilt is meant to cover. Although a spirit of playfulness pervades both artists’ approaches, inviting viewers to seek patterns and connections through a visual language that calls to mind puzzles and games, their work does not offer easy solutions. It suggests, rather than states; evokes, rather than imitates.

Peter Allen Hoffmannn received his MFA from Hunter College of CUNY in 2005, and his BFA from Bard College in 2001; he has had numerous solo and group shows at Freight+Volume, The Painting Center in NY, Thomas Robertello in Chicago, Fleischer/Ollman Gallery, the Wexford Art Centre in Ireland among many others. He has received awards and travel grants from Hunter College, CUNY and Cow House Studios in Ireland. His work has been reviewed extensively in a variety of national and international art and literary publications, including Art Korea, Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and Useless magazine. He lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Anne Wu, an established artist working out of Northern New Mexico, revisits tradition through a variety of media to create dimensional objects and installations. She creates meaning from a plethora of minute jetsam and flotsam,… and sometimes just jokes.