Zg Gallery presents Jackie Tileston's Solo of New Works

Written by Wanda Billings Monday, 09 November 2009 21:35

Chicago, IL - Jackie Tileston’s new paintings are rich combinations of tone, texture, gesture, & control.  Born in the Philippines & raised in India, London & Paris, she incorporates diverse elements from both eastern & western aesthetics, creating a visual metaphor for her multi-cultural upbringing.  Using oil paint, dry pigment, enamel, along with collage & transfer items. On view at Zg Gallery  until 31 December, 2009.

Tileston states, “This medley of sources is orchestrated to create or reconstruct a world within the paintings in which a new kind of sense is made – a world in which the beautiful & the absurd, the sacred & the mundane cooperate.  Contraries are put to work, knitting the world together, in a kind of visual globalism.”

Jackie Tileston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, The Pew Fellowships in the Arts Grant, and the Core Fellowship Residency, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  She received her M.F.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, and her B.A. in Fine Arts, from Yale University, New Haven, CT.  Mesocomos II will be Tileston’s third solo show with Zg Gallery, Chicago.

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