June 22 - September 28, 2024
From Holly Johnson Gallery:
“Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Jackie Tileston: Just This, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper. An opening reception will be held June 22, from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. The exhibition continues through September 28.
In the artist’s most recent work, her practices in yoga and meditation, trance techniques and entheogenic experiences are converging in new experimental and conceptual processes based in automatic drawing. The paintings and drawings function as topographic energy maps of unknown realms, expressions of cosmic play, or the visual equivalent of sound waves emerging from a field of potential.
In the nondual traditions of ancient India, Consciousness is understood to be the fundamental of the universe from which everything arises. One field of blissful Awareness vibrates and separates into infinite loci of diverse individual perspectives, and the manifest universe is thus the result of ecstatic emanations from this unified field.
Tileston asks whether what she calls “deep perceiving” can catalyze the experience of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and can these experiences help to evolve new paradigms of interconnectedness?
Jackie Tileston (b. Manila, Philippines) spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid”, living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. This intercultural mix and sense of belonging everywhere and nowhere has become the template for making layered and contemplative paintings with her own pictorial vocabulary and symbolism.
Tileston’s work has been featured in solo exhibits in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibits at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), The Elizabeth Foundation, Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the public collections of the Art Museum of South Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Jameel Collection in Dubai, JP Morgan Chase, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the West Virginia University Art Museum.
She received a B.A. from Yale University (1983) and MFA from Indiana University (1988). She is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1988-1990), the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017), Yaddo Foundation residency (2019), Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France (2022), and Surf Point Foundation Residency in Maine (2023). She lives in Philadelphia, where she is a Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Holly Johnson Gallery is located at 1845 East Levee Street; Suite #100; Dallas, Texas 75207. Gallery hours are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. For more information call 214-369-0169, or email [email protected], or visit www.hollyjohnsongallery.com.”
Reception: June 22, 2024 | 5–7 pm
1845 Levee Street #100
Dallas, 75207 TX
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I still remember walking into Jackie’s exhibit in the 90’s at Doug Lawing’s gallery. I went back 3 more times. Those paintings reminded me of ancient illustrations of lost knowledge. Maybe the long, narrow, dark space like a sensory deprivation tank helped focus on thoughts and beauty and timelessness. That first show was probably my favorite show I ever saw in Houston. I have had the postcard images of her 2 shows at Lawing pinned in my studios ever since.
While those 90’s works reminded me of the past, her work from the last couple exhibits seem like illustrations from textbooks that won’t be published and understood for hundreds of years in the future. And they could just as well be about the infinite
intelligence of a single cell or the entire cosmos.
What seems to run through both the older and the newest paintings is that light is always winning.