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1. A Dreamed Journey, (Un Viaje Soñado), 2007, acrylic on canvas,
    30” x 40” (76 x 102 cm.)
2. Ideograms (Ideogramas), 2007, acrylic on canvas,
     36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
3. Mandala for Joaquín, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 20” (51 x 51 cm.)
4. States of Enlightenment II (Estados de Iluminación II), 2007, acrylic on
     canvas, 30" x 40”  (76 x 102 cm.)
5. States of Enlightenment III (Estados de Iluminación III),2007, acrylic on
     canvas, 36" x 60”  (92 x 152,5 cm.)
6. The Magical Journey ( El Viaje Mágico), 2007, acrylic and collage on
     canvas, 30" x 30”  (76 x 76 cm.)
7. The Ancient Sea (Antiguo Mar), 2006, acrylic on wood panel,
     16” x 20” (40 x 50 cm.)
8. Transmutation I (Transmutación I), 2005, acrylic on canvas,
     40” x 30” (92 x 92 cm.)
9. Primary Signs II (Signos Primarios II), acrylic on wood panel, 2005,
     20” x 16” (50x 40 cm.)
10. Nocturne in Blue Major (Nocturno en Azul Mayor), 2004, acrylic on
       canvas, 40” x 30” (102 x 76 cm.)
11. The Eternal Return (El Eterno Retorno), 2005, acrylic on canvas,
        30” x 40” (76 x 102 cm.)
12. Powerful Hands (Manos Poderosas), 2006, acrylic on canvas,
        30” x 40” (76 x 102 cm.)
13. Transmutation II (Transmutación II), 2005, acrylic on canvas,
        36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
14. The Intuition (La Intuición), 2005, acrylic on canvas,
        36 x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
15. The Hidden Writing (La Escritura Oculta), 2005, acrylic on canvas,
        36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
16. My Ancestor’s Sky (El Cielo de mis Ancestros), 2005, acrylic on
        canvas, 40” x 30” (102 x 76 cm.)
17. Almost Forgotten Memory (Profundo Recuerdo), 2002, acrylic on
        canvas, 36” x 24” (91-1/2 x 61 cm.)
18. Emerging (Emergiendo), 2002, acrylic on canvas,
        30” x 24” (76 x 61 cm.)
19. Solar Myths (Mitos Solares), 2004, acrylic on canvas,
        36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
20. The Amazement (El Asombro), 2002, acrylic on canvas,
        24” x 18” (61 x 46 cm.)
21. The Cosmic Fisherman (El Pescador Cósmico), 2002, acrylic on
        canvas, 24” x 30” (61 x 76 cm.)
22. About Flights and Pictograms (De Vuelos y Pictogramas), 2004,
        acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
23. The Cosmic Remains III (Registros Cósmicos III), 2005, acrylic on
        canvas, 36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
24. Ancient Sky (Antiguo Cielo), 2004, acrylic on canvas,
        30” x 40” (76 x 102 cm.)
25. The Cosmic Remains, Diptych (Registros Cósmicos, Díptico), 2004,
        acrylic on canvas, 36” x 72” (92 x 182.88 cm.)
26. States of Transparency III (Estados de Transparencia III), 2004, acrylic
        on canvas, 36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
27. States of Enlightenment (Estados de Iluminación), 2004, acrylic on
        canvas, 36” x 36” (92 x 92 cm.)
28. Mural Painting, (Fragment), 2000
       Santiago, Chile Larrain Architects Agency

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Watercolors
1. Images from the Past (Imágenes del Pasado), watercolor on watercolor
    paper, 2007, 16”x 20” (41x 51 cm.)
2. Ligia’s Little Bird (El Pajarito de Ligia), watercolor on watercolor paper,
     2007, 8”x 10” (20x 25.5 cm.)
3. State of Enlightenment, watercolor on watercolor paper, 2007,
     11”x 14” (28x 36 cm.)
4. The Ancient World (El Antiguo Mundo), watercolor on watercolor paper,
    2007, 10”x 8” (25.5x 20 cm.)
5. Time and Again The Creation (Una y otra vez La Creación), 2005,
    watercolor on watercolor paper, 10” x 8” (26 x 20 cm.)
6. Ancient Mural (Antiguo Mural), 2005, watercolor on watercolor paper,
    9” x 12” (23 x 30.5 cm.)
7. Cosmic Music (Música Cósmica), 2006, watercolor on watercolor
    paper, 14” x 11” (36 x 28 cm.)
8. First Navigations (Primeras Navegaciones), 2006, watercolor on
    watercolor paper, 11” x 14” (28 x 36 cm.)

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1. Rising Energy (Energía Naciente), alpaca natural wool, textile collage,
     5’5”x 3’7” (162 x 110 cm.)
2. Forgotten Desert (Desierto Olvidado II), alpaca natural wool, textile collage and
     special hand-dyeing technique, 6’ x 4’3” (182 x 129 cm)
3. Shaman Creator (Chamán Creador), alpaca natural wool, textile collage,
     7’1” x 4’9” (216 x 146 cm.)
4. Magic Desert (Desierto Mágico), guanaco and alpaca natural wool, textile collage,
    6’2” x 4’1” (188 x 125 cm.)
5. Faces of Silence (Rostros del Silencio), sheep natural wool, textile collage,
     6’7” x 3’6” (200 x 112 cm.)
6. Looking for the Light (Buscando la Luz), alpaca and sheep natural wool, textile
     collage, 5’3” x 3’7” (164 x 108 cm.)
7. Forgotten Memory (Memoria Olvidada), cotton and linen fabric, textile collage and
     special hand-dyeing technique, 39” x 38” (99 x 96.5 cm.)
8. The Eternal Return (El Eterno Retorno), cotton and linen fabric, textile collage and
     special hand-dyeing technique, 39” x 38” (99 x 96.5 cm.)
9. Ritual, Installation (Ritual, Instalación), alpaca, guanaco and sheep natural wool,
     feathers, vegetables, branches, weaving and textile collage,
     10’ x 10’ x 10’ (305 x 305 x 305 cm.)

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Contact Information
400 S. 45th Street, #A-2
Philadelphia, PA 19104
tel: 215-528-6757
tel: 215-601-5705
e-mail: jacquelineunanue@yahoo.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
While studying design in my native Chile in the 1970s, I became interested in pre-Columbian art, especially in the rock art done in my own country. I was encouraged to do further research by Hans Niemeyer, a renowned archeologist.

Together with my husband Ricardo Guajardo, who is also a designer and graphic artist, I visited the solitary and awe-inspiring valleys, mountains, deserts and rock formations of Chile, which are repositories of this art. I also traveled to Spain to study the caves of Altamira in the Basque country, which being the home of my paternal ancestors connected me to my roots.

My work—be it in textile and graphic art or painting—springs from this research and exploration, and concerns my connection to an ancient past. Just as a poet uses letters and words to compose verses, I use the signs and symbols found in rock art to create new poetic spaces. While these images exist externally, I feel that I am also extracting and recovering them from my own memory.

Now I am immersed in painting, continuing the same thread of my former research and finding new roads that enlarge and enrich my horizon of inspiration and creation. Lately, I have become interested in ancient systems of writing—like ideograms, pictograms, and alphabets. I am intrigued that rock art evolved into writing systems.

I have been attracted, as well, by optical effects of brief duration that appear before closed eyes after looking toward the sun or into sunlight reflected on the surface of water. In these fleeting images, I recognize forms similar to those found both in rock art and early writing systems.

My current paintings derive from my former research, from dream images and sometimes from a spontaneous painting technique. These sources provide me with geometric shapes and primal elements, like starts, 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.

Education
1986-1987
Centro Arte (Art Center), Viña del Mar, Chile
Textile Art

1981-1982
School of Design, Universidad de Chile, Valparaíso, Chile
MFA, Graphic Design

1976-1977
Rock Art studies with renowned Archaeologist and Rock Art specialist Hans Niemeyer Santiago, Chile

1975
School of Fine Arts, Viña del Mar, Chile
Drawing, Painting and Art History

1972-1977
School of Design, Universidad de Chile, Valparaíso, Chile
Graphic Design

Awards, Grants & Research Trips
2002 and 2003
Independent studies of Gaudi’s Architecture and Art Museums
One month Travel to Barcelona, Spain

2000
Travel Grant to USA, sponsored by Foreign Affairs Department of Chilean Government, for a series of own exhibitions in Washington DC and Philadelphia PA

1996
Travel Grant to Ecuador, sponsored by Foreign Affairs Department of Chilean Government, for own Art Exhibition in Quito and research on indigenous Quechua culture and textiles (Salasaca, Cayambé and Otavalos)

1989
Two-month travel along Madrid, Barcelona, Gerona, and the Basque Country (Spain), studying art and culture
Honorable Invitation, International Art Encounter, “Primeras Jornades del Color” : Lecture Series and on-site Art works, drawing and painting at Pyreness Catalans, sponsored by Consell Comarcal Pallars Jussà, Catalonia, Spain
Rock Art research, Altamira caves, Santander, Spain
Critic’s Award, Association of Art Critics, Valparaíso, Chile

1981
Juried Award for Illustration, “El Arbol”, Honorable Mention, NorthAmerican Institute, Santiago, Chile
Juried Award for Poster Illustration, First Prize, Universidad Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

1980-1995
Rock Art research. On-site study, photographic documentation and graphic image recovering of: petroglyphs, geoglyphs and pictographs.
Ariquilda, cerros Unitas y Pintados, Azapa, Lluta y Valle del Encanto, Chile

Affiliations
APECH Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Chile (Association of Painters and Sculptors of Chile), Santiago

I.A.A International Association of Art to the UNESCO, Paris, France

Professional Experience (partial list)
2000 - present
Images Design for Fashion Clothemaker, Ligia Unanue Studio, Barcelona, Spain

2000
Mural Design and Execution, Commissioned Work, Larraín Architects Agency, Santiago, Chile

1998-1999
Taller Espacio (“Space” Workshop), Viña del Mar, Chile
Full-time teacher and artist-in-residence. Taught Textile Art, Design and Composition

1993
Graphic Design and Production, Commissioned Work, “Motivos de San Francisco”, book by Nobel laureate poet Gabriela Mistral. Published by Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile

1982-1996
Design , Illustration, Printmaking and Art Editions, at own “Arte Raimi” Studio, Viña del Mar, Chile

1982
Graphic Design, Illustration and Production, “El Arte Rupestre Chileno, un encuentro con el hombre primitivo”. Limited edition Art Book printed in silk-screen. Edited by Arte Raimi, Viña del Mar, Chile

1975-1980
Investigation and Design with Pre-Columbian motifs for manufactured apparels, at own “Unanue” Atelier, Viña del Mar, Chile

Bibliography
2007
Ledger, Martha, "Art that Rocks", University City Review, Philadelphia, PA, November 7

2004
Levy, Marlene, "Signatures of Civilization: Paintings by Jacqueline Unanue and Tremain Fisher"University City Review, Philadelphia, PA, August 4

Strauss, R.B., "First Friday in August? You bet", University City Review, Philadelphia, PA, August 4

2000
“Miniatures 2000”, Hellen Drutt Gallery, USA and Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, tour exhibition catalog

“El 2000 de Pablo Neruda”, El Mercurio, Valparaíso, Chile, January 2, newspaper

1997
Córdoba, Ximena, "Memoria Milenaria", Vivienda y Decoración, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, September 6, magazine

Swinburn, Gema, “Guía de Exposiciones Instituto Norteamericano”, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, May 25, newspaper

1996
“Arte Textil Contemporáneo en Chile”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, exhibition catalog

Rodríguez, Eugenio, "Ritual de Jacqueline Unanue", El Mercurio, Valparaíso, Chile, December 22, newspaper

“Ritual”, Fundación Guayasamín, Quito, Ecuador, exhibition catalog

1989
“Jornades del Color”, Pallars Jussà, Catalonia, Spain, catalog

Madrenys, Pere, "El Personatge: Jacqueline Unanue", Apunts, Gerona, Spain, October 31, newspaper

1987
Maack, Ana María, "Encuentro con el Ancestral Lenguaje", El Sur, Concepción, Chile, December 20, newspaper

1986
Donoso, Alvaro, “Los Eternos Danzantes”, El Mercurio, Valparaíso, Chile, May 17, newspaper

1985
Labowitz, Pedro, “Drei Aussteller”, In Goethe Institut, El Cóndor, Santiago, Chile, November 23, newspaper

Bindis, Ricardo, “Dos Exposiciones Singulares”, Tercera de la Hora, Santiago, Chile, November 24, newspaper

1983
"Huellas, El Chileno Primitivo", Revista Hoy, Santiago, Chile, October 5 to 11, magazine

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2008
Almost Forgotten Memory, St. Asaph Gallery, Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia PA

2007
States of Enlightenment, University City Arts League UCAL Gallery, Philadelphia PA

2000
Vuelo Chamánico, Inter American Development Bank, Gallery, Washington DC

Signos Eternos, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Vuelo Chamánico, DHL World Wide Express Gallery, Santiago, Chile

Vuelo Chamánico, Marbella Resort Gallery, Con-Con, Chile

1997
Memoria Milenaria, Carmen Codoceo Gallery, La Serena. Chile

Memoria Milenaria, North American Institute, Santiago, Chile

1996
Ritual, El Farol Gallery, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Ritual, Guayasamín Foundation, Quito, Ecuador

1989
Nuestra Presencia, La Cumbre Gallery, Viña del Mar, Chile
With José Balcells

Els Esperits Viatgers, Les Bernardes Gallery, Salt-Gerona, Catalonia, Spain

1988
Sin Título, Trazos Gallery, Viña del Mar, Chile

1987
Los Eternos Danzantes, Art Gallery, Universidad de Concepción, Chile

1986
Los Eternos Danzantes, El Farol Gallery, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

1985
Imágenes desde el Silencio, Goethe Institut, Santiago, Chile
With Ana María Espiñeira

1983
Arte Rupestre Chileno, Viña del Mar Gallery, Viña del Mar, Chile

Arte Rupestre Chileno, Enrico Bucci Gallery, Santiago, Chile

Group

2007
POST Preview Invitational, Freeman’s Auction House, Philadelphia, PA

Vivid Colors of Summer, Near & Far Furniture and Gallery Store, Philadelphia, PA

My Space on 7th, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC

Roles, Rites, & Rituals: Customs, Relationships, and Body Image, Pen and Brush Galleries, New York, NY
Juror: Diana Kurz

Juried Fiber Arts Exhibition, Smithtown Township Arts Council at the Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
Juror: Lynn Felsher

2006
Across the City Line: POST Preview, St. Asaph Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Pure Painting, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Juried International Exhibition
Juror: Gladys Nilsson

Fiber Artists:Philadelphia, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Kathryn Pannepacker

Exhibit 4, InLiquid at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Across the City Line: POST Preview, St. Asaph’s Church, Philadelphia, PA

2004
First Impressions, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

2000
Miniatures 2000, Art and Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Invitational

2000, Neruda en el Arte, Neruda’s Foundation, Valparaíso, Isla Negra and Santiago, Chile
Invitational Travelling Exhibition

Miniatures 2000, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

1996
Contemporary Textile Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

Eco-Feria’ 96, National Art Encounter, Estación Mapocho Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

Mujeres en el Arte, Argentinean and Chilean artists, Biblioteca Severín, Valparaíso, Chile
Invitational

1995
Un Tiempo para el Arte, Cultural Center, Viña del Mar, Chile,
Invitational

1992
Un tiempo para el Arte, Railroad of Chile
Invitational Travelling Exhibition

1990
Enart ‘90”, National Art Encounter, Estación Mapocho Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

El Arte y La Defensa de la Tierra, Cultural Center, Viña del Mar, Chile
organizer and participant

1988
Palau de Caramany, Gerona, Catalonia, Spain
Invitational

Juried III Regional Fine Arts Exhibition, Muncipal Art Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile

1987
Juried VIII International Art Biennial, Muncipal Art Gallery, Valparaí so, Chile

Juried IX National Fine Arts Exhibition, EL Farol Gallery, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

1986
Juried II Regional Fine Arts Exhibition, Muncipal Art Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile

1985
Juried VII National Fine Arts Exhibition, EL Farol Gallery, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Contemporary Textile Art, North American Institute, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

Contemporary Textile Art, Aztoreca Palace Gallery, Iquique, Chile
Invitational

1984
Chilean Contemporary Textile Art, General San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Invitational

Contemporary Textile Art, Universidad de La Serena Gallery, Chile
Invitational

1983
El Arte y la Sobrevivencia del Planeta, National History Museum, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

Contemporary Textile Art, Goethe Institut, Santiago, Chile
Invitational

Other
2007
POST, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA

inliquid benefit v.7.0, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA

2006
POST, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA

inliquid benefit v.6.0, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA

16th Annual A Show of Hands, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2005
POST, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA

Collections and Public Works
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, U.S.A
Consell Comarcal del Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Diner’s Club Collection, Quito, Ecuador
Guayasamín Foundation Collection, Quito, Ecuador
Modern Art Museum M.A.M, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Library of Chilean Pre-Columbian Art Museum, Santiago, Chile
National History Museum, Santiago, Chile
Biblioteca Nacional (National Free Library), Santiago, Chile
Pinacoteca (Art Museum), Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Chilean–North American Institute Collection, Santiago, Chile
Del Lago, Casino – Hotel, Pucón, Chile
Marbella Resort Collection, Con-Con, Chile
Carmen Codoceo Gallery Collection, La Serena, Chile
DHL World Wide Express Collection, Santiago, Chile

Private Collections
Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, United States, Spain and Germany