Exhibits & Events
Untethered: The Space Between Being and Abstraction
Opening Reception: Second Thursday, May 14th, 6-9pm
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia presents Untethered: The Space Between Being and Abstraction, a group exhibition curated by Kara Mshinda on view May 14–June 20, 2026. The exhibition brings together four artists — Alex Smith, LUSMERLIN, DuiJi Mshinda, and Duwenavue Santé Johnson — working across collage, painting, textiles, and installation. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 14, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Untethered positions abstraction as a condition and not a style. In this context, abstraction is the space where desire moves beyond language, where form arrives before meaning, where the unnamed can finally move. This exhibition, which is Mshinda’s curatorial debut, asks what becomes possible when artists world-build without predetermined parameters and follow their raw creative intuition into territory that only reveals itself in the making.
What connects these four artists is a shared commitment to practice as the origin of creativity. From this process, worlds emerge. This attention to method reveals the ways in which their works are artifacts of meaning-making: unscripted, intuitive, and oriented toward possibility rather than resolution.
Untethered is an invitation to dream alongside these four artists. To follow a work where it wants to go. To ask what if — and resist the urge to answer too quickly.
