prisma

Aug 23 - Sep 28, 2025

PRISMA presents the works of Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York members Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Cecile Chong, Dominic Terlizzi, Ethan Greenbaum, Fred Blauth, Mike Olin, Mónica Palma, Rachael Gorchov, Sun You, Vincent Como, and William Kim, curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen. 

In this exhibition, multiple practices coexist to create narratives built upon differences, yet they converge in their acute form of observation, revealing what would otherwise remain outside the center’s focus. Manifested through painting, drawing, photography, works on paper, collage, and sculpture, the works converge in two lines of interest. The first is their regard for materials not only as a tool or medium but as something that can undergo a transformative experience in the process of becoming. What has been overlooked by others is attentively re-examined by this group of artists. The second is their daily relationships and expressions of identity. They absorb elements from interactions with others, and in their works, reveal what remains in the tension between what is contained and what is exposed in that exchange.

Persistently, material and social encounters with the world trigger a gesture (at times performative) that transforms the experience of these artists. The title of the exhibition refers to a prism—a shape with multiple sides that can refract light and alter the way we perceive things. The word is often used to "describe a way of looking at or thinking about something that causes us to see or understand differently" (Britannica). In this exhibition, each artwork constitutes a facet of the prism, forming a structure that allows the viewer to explore things in an alternative visual and material way while suggesting a renewed perspective on our surroundings.

Aisha Tandiwe Bell is an artist whose practice is inspired by the fragmentation of multiple identities. She is the first generation Jamaican and ninth generation traceable Black American. Born in Manhattan and raised Bobo Shanti Rasta, Bell creates myth and ritual through sculpture, performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation. She holds a BFA and an MS from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Hunter College. Bell has received a NYFA in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work and has had artist residencies/fellowships at various places, including Skowhegan, Rush Corridor Gallery, Abron's Art Center, LMCC's Swing Space, LMCC Workspace, Wassaic, The Laundromat Project, BRIC, Interlude, Stoneleaf retreat, Dieu Donne, and Indigo Alliance. She has been a fellow with DVCAI on International Cultural Exchanges in several countries. Bell's works have been exhibited in numerous spaces, including The Museo De Arte Moderno’s Triennial, The Jamaica Biennial, The BRIC Biennial, The Venice Biennial, MoCADA, The Rosa Parks Museum, CCCADI, Columbia College, Space One Eleven, The Corcoran, Welancora Gallery, and Rush Arts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. She is a multimedia artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, and public art, layering materials, identities, histories, and languages. Her work addresses ideas of cultural interaction and interpretation, as well as the commonalities humans share both in our relationship to nature and to each other. Her public art installations include Art in Buildings, EL DORADO was installed in the five boroughs of NYC (2017-2022). Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes, among others. Fellowships and residencies include Art Omi, Marble House Project, Surf Point Foundation, Dieu Donné Workspace, BAC - Brooklyn Arts Fund, Asian Women Giving Circle, NYSCA, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, The Hispanic Society’s Vilcek Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Chinese in America, The Studio Museum, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Smithsonian Institution, and private collections internationally. She received an MFA from Parsons, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.

Dominic Terlizzi is a Brooklyn based artist and curator. Terlizzi’s studio work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, utilizing cast objects and textures to build imagery.  Dominic recently exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery and Helen J Gallery in LA, My Pet Ram, Field of Play, The Front, Tappeto Volante, Good Naked, Underdonk, and Headstone Gallery in NY. International exhibitions include Mc Bride Contemporian in Montreal, Canada  and NEVVEN Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dominic founded and directed St. Charles Projects in Baltimore city from 2015-2023. He has been awarded the Triangle Workshop, PNC Transformative Art Prize, Belle Foundation Grant, and completed three public sculptures in Baltimore City. He is a graduate from the Hoffberger School of Painting  and The Cooper Union. 

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. Selected exhibition venues include Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York, Higher Pictures, New York; New York; Marianne Boesky, New York,  Lyles & King, New York; KANSAS, New York; Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steve Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Galerie Pact, Paris; Super Dakota, Brussels; The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; and Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City. His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, ArtReview and Interview Magazine, among others.

Ethan is a cofounder and editor of thehighlights.org and his writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Wax Magazine, BOMB, Paper Monument and others. He has also curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions at venues including The Suburban, Chicago; Lyles & King, New York and Super Dakota, Brussels.

Greenbaum is the recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the Silver Art Residency, The Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne’s Workspace Residency, LMCC’s Workspace Program, The Robert Blackburn SIP Fellowship, The Socrates EAF Fellowship, The Edward Albee Foundation Residency and The Barry Schactman Painting Prize. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.

Fred Blauth (b. 1993) finds and makes things in New York City. He’s fascinated by how putting things together, or even just next to each other, can transform them completely and how context can shape that process. Since the pandemic, he’s made a bunch of collages, thousands of stickers, hundreds of paper bracelets, at least 50 birthday candles, and three swimsuits (one is lost!), a gajillion buttons, four ribbon wands (and counting). Every year he makes a costume and walks in the NYC Halloween Parade. Last year he was a tree.

Mike Olin was born in Pasadena, CA, (1971) raised in San Diego, and has lived and worked in Bushwick, Brooklyn since 1999.  Olin has shown his paintings throughout New York City and internationally for two decades.

Mónica Palma was born in Mexico City and studied visual art at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz.  She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University.  She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  Her work has been shown at TSA (NYC), 245 Varet Street (NYC), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City),  Soloway Gallery (NYC), Underdonk Gallery (NYC), and Essex Flowers (NYC), My Pet Ram (NYC), Tang Teaching Museum (NY), Klaus von Nichtssagend (NYC).  Mónica was the 2022 AIR spring resident at UTK in Tennessee. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer at Lehman College, CUNY.

Rachael Gorchov, a painter whose work spans a variety of media, exhibited her work at Soft Machine Gallery in Allentown in 2024. In 2021 she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo. She had her second solo exhibition with Owen James Gallery in New York in 2020. She is a founding member and co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Having received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from Hunter College, she is currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Northampton Community College. Her work and curatorial projects have been featured in Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, the Philadelphia Inquirer and WDIY, an NPR affiliate. Originally from Philadelphia, Gorchov lives and works in New York City and Allentown, PA.

Sun You is a Seoul born, New York based artist. You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Geary, New York, The Pit, Los Angeles, Queens Museum, New York, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and The Suburban, Chicago. You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Silver Art Projects, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She was a recipient of Contemporary Visual Art Award 2023 from AHL Foundation, the Korean Art Foundation. You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Korea Times, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters and Widewalls. You’s artist book, ‘please enjoy!’ was published by Small Editions and acquired by the Whitney Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and New York Public Library.

You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs a non-profit gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York. She teaches as an assistant professor at Lafayette College.

Vincent Como (b. 1975; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) has been relentlessly exploring reduction and minimalia with an explicitly black palette for over 25 years. He is represented by MINUS SPACE with whom he mounted the haunting and spare exhibition: Paradise Lost in 2013, and a 20 year survey of his work on paper: The Negative Approach Operating System (For Intermediate to Advanced Practitioners) in 2019, as well as various other projects with the gallery. He likes the Ramones and Black Sabbath, Giallo films, and cats. His current projects may or may not include giving you the finger. Como’s work has been discussed in publications such as Art 21 Online Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, The Creator’s Project, New American Paintings, The Wall Street Journal, ArtSlant, Progress Report, WagMag, The Boston Phoenix, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Journal, and Salt Lake Tribune, among others. Como holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

William Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and community-builder. They live nomadic and spend little money on material. Kim's work has been featured in Synchron Magazine (2021), Artforum (2024), and Apocalypse Magazine (2025). They hold a MFA from Pratt Institute, a BFA from Universität der Künste Berlin, K-Arts Seoul and École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris. “In Fall 2023 I moved from Berlin to New York. I found friends forever in this city but didn’t grew friends with this city. After almost two years living homeless and stationary, after all, I must return to my nomadic lifestyle, turn away from a studio-based practice and again towards home in hazard, hitchhiking with hammock, anywhere and adrift. I’ll miss you”

Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen is a New York-based Mexican curator focused on decolonial practices, ecology, and migration. She has worked as Programs Manager and Curator at the NARS Foundation, Cultural Specialist for UNESCO in Mexico, and Head of Exhibitions for the Mexican Ministry of Culture's Alas y Raices program. Elisa has curated numerous exhibitions at institutions like MUCA Campus, BioBAT Art Space, Lydian Stater, Home Gallery, op.cit., Salón Silicón, and 601 Artspace. She is the founder of Common Frequencies, a platform exploring sonic, environmental, and interspecies artistic practices, and a member of TSA New York