Reality Show: Julian Kremer & Filip Kostic
September 16 to October 14, 2017 – Opening Reception: Saturday, September 16, 7 to 10 PM
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Reality Show, featuring paintings and drawings by New York based artist Julian Kreimer and a new virtual reality piece by Los Angeles artist Filip Kostic. The exhibition opens on September 16 and run to October 14, with an opening reception with the artists on Saturday, September 16 from 7 to 10 PM.
This exhibition explores the idea of reality by exhibiting work with various degrees of separation from a primary experience: Kreimer through a process that pairs a one-shot plein air painting with a related drawing derived from memory or text, and Kostic using a virtual reality process that layers fantastical elements onto existing architectural spaces. Both sets of work force viewers to question their knowledge and experience of reality by using real world experiences as a starting point for unreal situations.
Kreimer’s one-shot paintings are made outside from direct observation. Each painting is made in a day, and some remain mimetic while others veer into abstraction. They depict Brooklyn construction sites, third-growth East Coast forests, and South-American urban views – locations undergoing constant transformation. In contrast, the colored pencil drawings are made over many weeks in the studio. Alternately built up and erased, they depict the malleability of space in our own minds. The two bodies of work inform each other, the abstract drawings often prophesying a composition that emerges in a later observed motif.
Kostic’s work combines self-aware humor and engaging visuals as an entry point to multilayered constructions of meaning. In his recent exhibition of Landgrab the Musical in VR – a virtual reality Western musical set in an expansive digital landscape, he explores his interests in virtual spaces, gaming, and technology, focusing on the role that they play in shaping culture and our understanding of space/place. His mapped, layered virtual environments create a tension between the experience of the coexisting created space and the physical source site. The viewer with the headset becomes a performer who interfaces between the two, tying them together.
Julian Kreimer is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor of Painting at SUNY Purchase. His most recent solo shows have been at Lux Art Institute in San Diego, and Weeknights Gallery in Brooklyn. He was artist-in-residence at Hotel Pupik in Castle Schrattenberg, Austria this summer, and his work has been shown at Von Lintel Gallery, Snyderman Works Gallery, and TSA NY, among others. He is a frequent contributor to Art in America, and has written for Paper Monument and Modern Painters. He’s been a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow, and his work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Artcritical.
Filip Kostic grew up in Serbia and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2016. Filip currently teaches Virtual Reality and Emerging Technology at both Otis College of Art and Design and ArtCenter College of Design. He recently took part in the Spring/Break Art Show in New York and has had solo exhibitions at the Wind Tunnel Gallery in Pasadena, and at the ArtCenter College of Design.
For more information please contact TSA LA at losangeles@tigerstrikeasteroid.com, or visit our site at www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com. The gallery is free and open to the public from 12 to 5 PM on Saturday and Sunday, with additional hours by appointment.
