asianartists – Painting After Art is Dead

Alex Paik

Alex’s practice touches many parts of the Art world. In addition to being a practicing artist (he is in Refraction/Abstraction with Minku) he is the founder and (now, former*) Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid and a writer for Hyperallergic.

*see below pic for more on all Alex has done to guide the development of one of the most important artist run spaces in the US.

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(From TSA) After nearly 17 years of visionary leadership, our founder Alex Paik is stepping down as Network Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA). We are grateful that Alex will continue to guide our organization as Advisory Steering Committee member, ensuring his wisdom and vision remain part of TSA’s future.

From our DIY beginnings in 2009 to our current five-location network, Alex Paik has long been the North Star by which we navigate as an organization. He has shepherded us from scrappy and ragtag beginnings to a nationally recognized model of what artist-run spaces can achieve. Under Alex’s leadership, Tiger Strikes Asteroid grew from a tiny space in Philadelphia to become a national network of artist-run spaces sharing an ethos of community and collaboration, a commitment to exploring the work and practice of artists both emerging and established, giving a platform to the marginalized, and championing works that are resolutely non-market-driven. Through countless exhibitions, community gatherings, and collaborations, Alex cultivated not just a network but a model and philosophy for artist-led collaboration.

Alex led and guided our institution with remarkable grace, humility, and openness. Through a pandemic that pushed his family to relocate from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, through wildfires and cycles of economic uncertainty, Alex kept us focused and attentive to our goals and mission. We are forever indebted to Alex for his vision of an equitable and transparent horizontal operating structure, his embracing of the unconventional, and his willingness to experiment, knowing it could all fall apart.

As Alex transitions to Advisory Steering Committee Member, we honor his service.

Ali Bansidar

shows with Thaddeus Ropac (they show some names you know including Heemin and Joan and also Sean Scully who I just wrote quite a bit about). His work is on the edge of figuration/landscape like Dorothea and Maggie also Elliot.

#alibansidar

Heemin Chung

Heemin Chung investigates the material potential of digital images as she translates them into the mediums of painting and sculpture. Her work investigates how technology shapes contemporary perception and impacts our existential conditions. She is represented by Thaddaeus Ropac.

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Lubna Chowdhary

gets a nice nod in an Artnews article covering new acquisitions by the Tate (“yes” they were one of the included artists)

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Ding Yi 丁乙

According to Artsy, Ding (like Teresa and Suzanne and Ana) is having a good moment. Inspired by the Zen practice of calligraphy, Ding is a pioneer of abstraction in China, completely rejecting narrative and representation in his practice.

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Remy Jungerman

work explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African Diaspora, and twentieth-century modernism. He was recently in Carried Over as part of the International Studio & Curatorial Program.

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Yuji Agematsu

Back in May, Debra at Hyperallergic drew our attention to the unexpected beauty of detritus. Specifically, how, through his art, Yuji brings reverence and discipline to the job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition. They are abstract in the sense that compositional decisions are driven by formalist prerogative (they are clearly recognizable materials also).

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Yeonji Chung

is a recent Hopper Prize recipient. She extracts the shapes in her compositions from observational sketches of everyday, domestic moments.

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Vasudeo S. Gaitonde

One of India’s most influential modernists, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was at the forefront of the abstract painting movement in his native country; his work has drawn international acclaim since his death in 2001. Gaitonde was a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which pushed against folk art traditions. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1962.

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Sayed Haider Raza

gets a nod from Artsy as one of 10 pioneering Indian modernist artists whose work broke from colonial norms and reshaped global art history.
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Ang Ziqi Zhang

Artsy said Ang is one of 8 rising Asian American women artists to watch (Jacqueline also made this list).

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Jacqueline Qiu

Artsy says Jacqueline is one of 8 rising Asian-American women artists to watch.

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Yong Sin

newest is The Grid: Sacred and Secular at Solo. In Rosalind Krauss’s essay “Grids” (link is pdf) she argues that using a grid makes it possible for artists to produce very material objects and speak to the pure materiality of the work while at the same time implying a connection to ideas of spirit and “Being.” In Krauss’s argument, the grid makes a work “sacred and secular” at the same time.”
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Shawn Kuruneru

JDJ recently announced invest a debut solo exhibition of Canadian artist Shawn Kuruneru. The free-flowing, organic shapes within Kuruneru’s paintings on raw canvas have a rhythmic, almost musical presence.

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Jean Rim

Rim’s artistic carving process draws inspiration from organic, repetitive arrangements found in nature—the iridescent scales of a fish, the elegance of Fibonacci spirals, concentric circles in water—and these patterned worlds emerge through a careful carving and gauging process that reveals layers of kaleidoscopic color in the underpaint.

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