LA ISLA DE TIGRE

A must-see exhibit starts at SOCO Gallery.

This March, SOCO Gallery will open a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Jackie Milad entitled La Isla de Tigre. This exciting exhibition will run through April 26, 2023.

La Isla Del Tigre comprises twelve new multimedia works exploring the layering of transcultural history in Central American and Middle Eastern architecture and iconography. Milad links a universal topic of cultural layering and documentation with her own multicultural identity by blending what appears to be disparate imagery, icons, and language (graffiti, rap lyrics, popular slang, etc). These layered compositions mimic not only her own mixed Honduran-Egyptian-American upbringing, but also symbolize the way cultures are recorded and monumentalized in remaining fragments over time.

Milad received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, MA, and her MFA from Towson University, MD. She was an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC in 2021.

Milad’s work is in many prominent public and private collections including: Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Library, The Academy Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, GLB Memorial Foundation Collection, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Pizzuti Collection and Meta (Facebook) Open Art Program. info socogallery.com @socogallery