Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to present Full Bit featuring artists Sarah Sarchin and Meghan Smythe. This exhibition explores the relationship between bodies through their histories. Looking to antiquity and the record of the gendered body throughout traditional archetypes, Sarchin and Smythe examine the role of bodily representation in art, history, and culture. Interested in similar pallets, the works are awash and subtle in their surface. Full Bit merges dense content through gesture, where the work is quick and determined, yet labored and practiced. A youthful opposition to material control confronts established painting and sculpture while creating a palpable discord between the works themselves. Where Smythe’s aggressive hand conflicts with the slight of Sarchin’s, creating a range of material experience. Sarah Sarchin is a painter and sculptor. Her work describes a notion of the feminine that is changeable, comedic, and vastly complex. She repurposes postures from antiquity, art history, and pop culture, using these ubiquitous poses as armatures on which to build painterly and personal information. The work foregrounds the problem of having a body, the tension between public and private life, and the gaps between a nostalgic past and a lived present. Meghan Smythe is a ceramicist and sculptor. She is interested in questions relating to maleness, A New Feminine and Androgyny through the overt depictions of health, beauty and exposure of young men in Classical Greek sculpture. Using the tradition of the monument, she employs ceramic, glaze, plastic and epoxy, to find a blending of touch and style choices: A language of inclusion, a generative gesture, an archetype. Sarchin received her MFA in painting from the University of California Los Angeles in 2016. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Born in Kingston Ontario Canada, Smythe recieved her MFA in Ceramics Arts from Alfred University in 2011. Smythe's shown actively since 2014, most recently at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse NY, the Marjory Barrick Museum in Las Vegas and at LBMAx in Long Beach. Smythe is represented by Mark Moore Fine Art. She currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA. *** Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a network of artist-run spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Each space is independently operated and focuses on presenting a varied program of emerging and mid-career artists. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and build community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. We seek to further empower the artist’s role beyond that of studio practitioner to include the roles of curator, critic, and community developer; and to act as an alternate model to the conventions of the current commercial art market. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization. On view at the other Tiger Strikes Asteroid Locations: PHILADELPHIA / 1400 N. American St #107: Matt Neff & Alisha Wessler: Legerdemain July 20 - September 8 NEW YORK / 1329 Willoughby Ave #2A Matt Morris: Splitsville smells like irises August 3 - September 9 CHICAGO / 319 N Albany Closed while we move to our new location at Mana Contemporary!