Zg Gallery shows Jackie Tileston

Thursday, 02 August 2007 00:45

Chicago, IL - Jackie Tileston’s 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. On exhibition at Zg Gallery September 7 - October 13, 2007 / Opening Reception: September 7th, 5:30 - 8:00pm.

Using oil paint, dry pigment, enamel, along with collage & transfer items, 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. This will be Jackie Tileston’s second solo show with Zg Gallery, Chicago.

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