JACKIE TILESTON "Adventures of the Semionauts" New Paintings & Works on Paper September 6, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7th, 5:30-8:00
Gallery Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:00am - 5:30pm

Jackie Tileston’s paintings are rich combinations of tone, texture, gesture, and control. Born in Manila and raised in India, London and Paris, she incorporates diverse elements from eastern and western aesthetics, creating a visual metaphor for her multi-cultural upbringing. Using oil paint, dry pigment, enamel, along with collage and digital imagery, Tileston states, “My work comes out of an interest in painting as a language in which invention, analysis, and the stuff of paint can work in concert with each other. The paintings and drawings feed off of the history of abstraction, physics, Hindu deity images, Chinese landscape, the computer, and other sources. There is a constant flux between empty and full, atmospheric and graphic, abstract and figurative, quiet and psychedelic. The current dialogue around beauty, a passion for color, and a belief in the relevance of tactility and transcendence also informs the work. 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.

*"The activities of DJs, Web Surfers, and postproduction artists imply a similar configuration of knowledge, which is characterized by the invention of paths through culture. All three are "semionauts" who produce original pathways through signs.....The semionaut imagines the links, the likely relations between disparate sites". - Nicholas Bourriaud, “PostProduction” (p.18), 2005

Official Website: http://www.zggallery.com/tileston.htm