Gallery Director Ellen Siebers facilitates a Zoom discussion with Yael Eban & Jackie Hoving, co-directors of Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, who recently curated HOUSE & UNIVERSE—a group exhibition of eight local artists in WAAM’s main gallery. Email events@woodstockart.org for the Zoom link.

Yael Eban is an Israeli lens-based artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She earned an MFA in Photography & Video at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited most recently at Stellar Projects (NYC), FJORD (PA), Center for Creative Photography (AZ), The Chrysler Museum of Art (VA), and Houston Center for Photography. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artsy, Collector Daily, and FADER. Eban has attended residencies at MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center. She is co-director of the NYC branch of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces.  

Jackie Hoving lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Her large scale wall installations incorporate painting, printmaking, wallpaper, animation, and collage. Hoving’s work has been featured in solo projects at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Ripon College in Wisconsin, Rebekah Templeton Gallery in Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Airport, and group exhibitions at the Artist-Run Art Fair in Miami, Storefront Gallery in Brooklyn, and The Museum of Drawing in Laholm, Sweden. As a current co-Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn Hoving has had the opportunity to curate several exhibitions. Her curatorial projects and her own work have been written about in publications such as The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, The Bushwick Daily, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.