STATEMENT
I observe closely the details of everyday life and how people manage their physical space and relationships. I’m interested in verbal and non-verbal languages, especially when it is culturally specific. Coming from a multicultural background, I understand how a culture carries its own set of signals, gestures and cues to express everyday ideas. My interest in communication exists due to my eclectic childhood. My father is an immigrant from Egypt and my mother from Honduras. Our household was a unique blend of Spanish, Arabic, and English. Miscommunication was always a possibility; therefore my family relied on gestures and facial expressions.
My current focus is a synthesis of my interests in social behavior, body language and culture. The work functions as instruction for performance much like choreography. The work exposes the multiplicity of meaning in our everyday gestures depending on context and culture.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Baltimore City, Thursday, 4:15AM, October 9, 1975
Parents native languages are Arabic and Spanish.
Jackie Milad is an artist who works with drawing, performance art and installation, and often creates projects that brings these disciplines together. She has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico and Galeria del Jovenes in Culiacan, Mexico.
In 2005 she earned her MFA from Towson University in Maryland, and in 2000 she received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts. In 1998, Ms. Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence Italy. She is currently Program Coordinator and Curator for the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park. In the winter of 2007-08, Ms. Milad completed a research residency in northwest Mexico where she researched and recorded local men's whistling habits. In 2010 Milad was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
I observe closely the details of everyday life and how people manage their physical space and relationships. I’m interested in verbal and non-verbal languages, especially when it is culturally specific. Coming from a multicultural background, I understand how a culture carries its own set of signals, gestures and cues to express everyday ideas. My interest in communication exists due to my eclectic childhood. My father is an immigrant from Egypt and my mother from Honduras. Our household was a unique blend of Spanish, Arabic, and English. Miscommunication was always a possibility; therefore my family relied on gestures and facial expressions.
My current focus is a synthesis of my interests in social behavior, body language and culture. The work functions as instruction for performance much like choreography. The work exposes the multiplicity of meaning in our everyday gestures depending on context and culture.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Baltimore City, Thursday, 4:15AM, October 9, 1975
Parents native languages are Arabic and Spanish.
Jackie Milad is an artist who works with drawing, performance art and installation, and often creates projects that brings these disciplines together. She has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico and Galeria del Jovenes in Culiacan, Mexico.
In 2005 she earned her MFA from Towson University in Maryland, and in 2000 she received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts. In 1998, Ms. Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence Italy. She is currently Program Coordinator and Curator for the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park. In the winter of 2007-08, Ms. Milad completed a research residency in northwest Mexico where she researched and recorded local men's whistling habits. In 2010 Milad was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
