by Kevin Blake | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog
By Kevin Blake Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a conglomeration of artist run exhibition spaces with independently operated locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. [Old/New] Psychedelic Providence, curated by Jamilee Lacy and sponsored byProvidence...
by Kevin Blake | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog
By Kevin Blake There is a natural reaction to becoming something when one realizes their own metamorphosis. As adolescence is whisked away by time, the memory of how one arrives in the present is often blurred, fragmented, and skewed toward whatever end the individual...
by Kevin Blake | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
By Kevin Blake Tom Torluemke is an enigmatic figure in the Chicago art community. By enigmatic, I do not mean difficult to understand. Or outsider. I mean individual. I mean, unmistakably himself. His work has incredible range–physically as well as conceptually. He...
by Kevin Blake | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog
By Kevin Blake The front tire wobbles as the weight of the planking jerks the fork of the bicycle from side to side. It will take rhythm to get anywhere. It will require a centering–a perfect distribution of the unbalanced load. The salvaged wood scrap stretches...
by Kevin Blake | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog
By Kevin Blake “Ahoy down there” I yelled, acting out a drama I had seen before and would see forever–over and over. Again and again. I thought I was calling down to her from the top of a gigantic sand dune. From the peak of the tallest mountain. From the...