Image: Tyler Calkin-Low
Small Gesture 18 (hug)
ABS 3D Print
12”x7”x6”
2019
A line _________________________________a connection between 2 points.
______________________________________navigates the realm of in-between.
______________________________________communicates the space between you and me.
______________________________________traces a gesture of an embrace.
______________________________________feeling lives in its depth.
______________________________________traces through memory, try on that old feeling.
______________________________________builds up over years of looking and sitting silently.
______________________________________remains after the last look slips away.
______________________________________moves in and out of the most touched fabrics.
______________________________________leaves trace of how and where we have been.
______________________________________makes plans of the dream of where we might go. ______________________________________trace the groove with my finger.
______________________________________is a form of creation.
______________________________________makes visible the intimate connection.
“And the in-between is the realm of the life of lines.”
“Turning to the atmosphere, we have seen how the air we breathe is of the in-between: it does not lie between us but is the very medium in which our lives are mixed and stirred.”
– Tim Ingold in The Life of Lines,
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is proud to present In-Between, a group exhibition featuring Tyler Calkin-Low, Marjan Hormozi, Emma Kemp, Carmen Mardónez, Soyoung Shin and Anthony Bodlović.
Tyler Calkin-Low is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who examines social habits and anxieties through play and improvisation. His multi-modal practice uses objects, performance, video, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, and motion capture, often in recursive combination. Responding to current developments in consumer technologies, and most recently to pandemic tech practices, he constructs interactive and immersive propositions for interpersonal experience.
His work has been exhibited and performed in art and educational institutions around the world, including in Venice; Beijing; Kathmandu; Gimpo, South Korea; Guadalajara, Mexico; London; Berlin; New York City; and Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Digital Media at the University of Nevada, Reno where he teaches critical theory and experimental practices in video, immersive and interactive media, and digital fabrication.
Marjan Hormozi was born to an Iranian family in Tehran. Her father and uncle were in the advertising industry and in her early life she grew up in a very busy house that was like an around-the-clock ad agency. This very free and creative environment gave Marjan her initial love and passion for making art and storytelling. In 1969 her family sent her to Switzerland and then to England where she went to boarding school and art school. Marjan received her MFA from Slade School of Fine Arts (UK), and her BFA (honors) from the university of North London (UK) and completed her foundation studies at Chelsea School of Art (UK). She studied with some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century. She is an international artist and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in several countries including Japan, Korea, England, Germany and the USA. Recent gallery shows include Royal Academy of Art, PØST, Track 16, CSUN gallery, Torrance Art Museum and others.
Marjan Hormozi is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Cheltenham fellowship (UK), Artist in Residence at the Stroud Museum (UK), Artist in Residence at the University of North London (UK) and Visiting Lecture at Slade School of Fine Arts (UK). Her work has appeared in several publications and is included in private collections nationally and internationally. Since 1986 Marjan Hormozi has served educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States as a teacher, including lead faculty and program Director in foundation Studies. Marjan Hormozi is a recognized expert in field of Figurative Art. She has designed and created drawing, painting and foundation curriculum for several colleges.
Professor Hormozi is currently the Area Head for ‘Drawing Form’ and ‘Drawing Studio’ at Otis College of Art and Design and teaches Drawing and Painting at Otis College of Art and Design and California Institute of the Arts, (CalArts).
She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Emma Kemp is a writer and artist concerned with transdisciplinary research practices. She is co-founder of studio collaborative BAKERSFIELD. Her book, Blue Pool: Cecelia, in collaboration with photographer JoAnn Walters and published by Image Text Ithaca, was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook Awards 2018. She is a recipient of the Al Larvick Conservation Fund grant for an archival documentary project called Barbara. Emma teaches at Otis College of Art
& Design and is the Program Coordinator for CalArts’ Summer Institute Studio Residency.
Carmen Mardónez (Santiago of Chile, 1988) is a Chilean textile artist living in Los Angeles since 2017. Her artwork seeks to radically reimagine intimate spaces of memories, dreams, and discovery, exploring variations around traditional embroidery by combining oversized formats, textile sculpture and the recovery of textile waste.
Carmen studied History and Arts in the Catholic University of Chile, a master’s degree in
Community Psychology at the University of Chile, and has training on art therapy and traditional
knitting on horsehair. Her artwork has been exhibited in Baik+Khneysser, Brea Gallery and SoLa
Gallery, among others, and her practice has been supported by scholarships and grants from “All
She Makes”, “Repaint History”, and “Not Real Art”. Most recently, Carmen has completed art
residencies at Helms Design Center and Art at the Blue Roof.
Soyoung Shin and Anthony Bodlović are artists residing in Los Angeles who spend their days researching human interactions through their lenses of art therapy, spirituality, engineering, fashion design, and education. Their collaborative performances are often fueled by their magical thinking and their shared experiences of being raised by immigrants. Searching for meaning in bouncy castles and reality TV, the two investigate human experiences through parody and play, recreating an alternative version of Americana and their Mother’s Land to understand where we came from, and where we are going.
