“Twee Abstraction, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and curated by TSA member Alex Paik, is composed of nine artists from the younger generation who make every effort to undermine formality. The appearance of a lack of technique is celebrated in these paintings, which often employ fragile found materials and underworked surfaces. A look of abjectness is cultivated.
Three of this show’s works hone its ideals particularly well: Jeffrey Scott Mathews’ sewn canvas composition of red and white triangles, DLTA SQNC (RED HEX) (2011); Suzanne Goldberg’s delicate sculpture of wire, plastic netting and wood, The Lovable Pauper (2011); and Tamara Zahaykevich’s Pumpkin Queen (2011), a painted paper-and-foamboard construction that puffs out almost two feet from the wall, and charmingly so.”
