University City Arts League
4226 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

University City Arts League (UCAL) presents
Chilean-born painter JACQUELINE UNANUE
STATES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
November 2- November 25, 2007

Chilean-born visual artist and West Philadelphia resident, Jacqueline Unanue premieres her one-woman exhibition, States of Enlightment at the University City Arts League (UCAL) gallery. The show opens, in conjunction with First Friday, November 2 with a reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm and closes Sunday, November 25. UCAL's gallery is located at 4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

For more information, contact 215-382-7811 or www.ucartsleague.org.

Jacqueline Unanue’s work is informed by the pre-Columbian rock art of her native country and expeditions to Spain’s Altamira caves in the Basque Country. Under the mentorship of esteemed archaeologist Hans Niemayer, a pre-eminent scholar in Chilean rock art, she developed her own graphic language in a book, " El Arte Rupestre Chileno, un encuentro con el Hombre Primitivo” (Chilean Rock Art, An Encounter with Primitive Man). Unanue’s credits include a degree in graphic arts and design from the Universidad de Chile de ValparaÌso and the 1989 prestigious Critic’s Award in Visual Art from the Valparaiso Art Critics Association.
States of Enlightment reflects these concerns and aesthetics based on the past and its ancient systems of writing such as -- ideograms, pictograms, and alphabets and how rock art evolved into writing systems. The show will feature 14 acrylic art works ranging in size from 16” by 20” to 3’ by 5’. Unanue notes, “My current paintings derive from dream images and sometimes from a spontaneous painting technique. These sources provide me with geometric shapes and primal elements, like stars, suns, moons, cosmic seeds, elemental matter and also figural forms, all of which travel in an evolving world, floating across the virgin earth, archaic oceans, and cosmic spaces. These images are a universal yet mysterious writing that directs me to my collective unconscious and reminds me that I have existed since time immemorial.”
Unanue has exhibited in Chile, Spain, Finland, Ecuador, Argentina. Since her arrival to the United States in 2000, Unanue’s artistic vision has been mainly expressed through acrylic paintings on canvas that have appeared nationally in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York.