Gold Bars
Artwork photos courtesy of the artist
by Jackie Milad
Mixed media collage on hand-dyed canvas, 48x40 in. 2020.
GLB-2020-4
Acquired into the GLB Art Collection July 2020.
From the It Means Desert, Desert series.
“Milad’s mixed-media pieces—turbulent storms of collage, paint, glitter, marker, tape, and flashe on canvas and paper—draw not from a singular art historical epoch, but a range of material including ancient Egyptian imagery, pop cultural proverbs, multilingualism, and the history of her own studio practice.
In repurposing her own artistic and mental archive alongside art historical iconographies and pop cultural relics, Milad gets wildly lost in the messiness of cultural identity. The result is an interpretation of history and culture less as geographically compartmentalized chronologies and more as a shifting web of entangled artifacts—a word that is malleable and expanding, encompassing both the pyramids and a familiar meme.” - Worlds on the Brink of Collapse By Maura Callahan for BmoreArt
Jackie Milad (Baltimore City, MD) Creates textured collage and drawing works on paper and canvas. Milad has been featured in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Select exhibitions include: The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore,MD), Harvey B. Gantt Center curated by Dexter Wimberly (Charlotte,NC), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), Phoebe Projects curated by Alex Ebstein (Baltimore, MD), Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA), Museo de Arte de Mazatlan (Mazatlan, MX), DiFOCUR de Sinaloa Galleria (Culiacan, MX), and Transmitter (Brooklyn, NY). Milad is a three-time recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from Maryland State Arts Council. In 2019 she was honored as a finalist for the prestigious Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Milad received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and her MFA from Towson University. Besides her active studio practice, Jackie Milad has an extensive career as a curator and educator, where she has committed many years to the education and support of emerging artists.
Image by Micah E. Wood