Alexis Granwell: All Echo
October 2 – November 1, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 6-10pm

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PHILADELPHIA - Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of its October exhibition, All Echo, a solo exhibit by Alexis Granwell.

For her third solo show in the gallery, Alexis Granwell will exhibit recent freestanding sculptures, all on display for the first time in Philadelphia. The artist employs materials including handmade paper, paper mache, paint, concrete, steel and found objects to create works that hover between the architectural and the corporeal. Granwell’s works suggest geological formations, architectural ruins and fossils, evoking a movement of time.
In an accompanying essay, critic and curator Katherine Rochester writes: Incorporated as both support and skin, paper binds Alexis Granwell’s sculptural work to her printmaking practice. In this regard, the show is aptly titled. “All Echo” speaks as much to the memory of the press in the fold as it does to the relationship of each object to the other: in the transformation from two-dimensional print to three-dimensional sculpture, paper gains the heft required to bounce sound around a room. Ideas ricochet from one surface to the next. Steel rods and scraps of wood tip toward one another, each offering a different resolution to the question of balance posed by the objects in their grasp.
Alexis Granwell has exhibited internationally and nationally, including exhibitions at Europos Parkas Museum, Lithuania; IPCNY, NY; Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD; Select Art Fair, New York, NY; Momenta Art, New York, NY; Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT; Towson University, MD; Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC; University of Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, VA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX and Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. She is a recent recipient of The Independence Foundation in the Arts Fellowship Grant for 2015. Her work has been reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Art F City and New American Paintings. Granwell is a Professor of Art and currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Moore College of Art and Design. She is a co-director and a founding member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist collective in Philadelphia. Granwell received an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Boston University.