Disembodied Under Different Skies, mixed media on linen, 60″ x 72″
Jackie Tileston, Philadelphia-based painter and winner of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, will debut her latest work at Chicago’s Zg Gallery starting the second week of September. Adventures of Semionauts features work that further explores Tileston‘s interest in the linguistic ability of painting to bridge the gaps between disparate elements.
The term “semionauts” refers to those who employ Relational Aesthetics, a term coined by French theorist, curator, and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud in 1996, in their work. Bourriad gives this title not just to artists but to DJs and even internet users, as they create “original pathways through signs” and imagine links, “the likely relations between disparate sites.”
Tileston addresses this by using a variety of media, including dry pigment, enamel, oil paint, collage and digital imagery, to create paintings that combine eastern themes of Chinese landscape and Hindu deity images with western elements of physics and technology. Her confident display of texture and color relates diverse elements through beauty in order to, in her words, “reconstruct a world… in which a new kind of sense is made.”
Adventures of the Semionauts marks Tileston‘s second appearance in Chicago. The show will run from September 7 to October 13, and the artist reception takes place opening night from 5:30-8:00 pm.
Adventures of the Semionauts
September 7 – October 13
Zg Gallery
300 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 654-9900
www.zggallery.com