Tileston lives and works in Philadelphia, but she shows widely in Texas and has also shown in New York Delaware and Chicago.
Artist Statement
"My work feeds off of the history of abstraction, physics, traditional eastern imagery, Chinese and Tibetan landscape motifs, digital imaging, and other sources. There is a constant flux between empty and full, atmospheric and graphic, abstract and figurative, quiet and psychedelic.
The dialogue about 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 - one in which the beautiful and the absurd, the sacred and the mundane cooperate. I want monks and magpies both to love the work. I am interested in the challenges of trying to forge a pictorial landscape in which anything might possibly be included, but that seems to possess its own internal logic.
I want to create paintings in which several different locations or spaces are made to coexist within one space - a "heteropia." My work as a painter is knitting the world together in a kind of visual globalism."
Jackie Tileston currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
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