Muse Gallery Philadelphia is proud to present Land, a solo painting exhibition of the work by artist Jacqueline Unanue created during year 2025. Her recent work features colorful acrylic paintings, some of them of large-scale inspired by her previous and also by her very recent trip to Spain.
"In 2025, I received an unexpected invitation to travel to Southern France and to Spain. It was a magical trip, filled with the acquisition of knowledge about incredible prehistoric sites, a period of humanity to which I have always felt an inexplicable attraction."
In Andalusia she toured megalithic constructions built with colossal blocks of rock created thousands of years ago (2.000 A.C- 6.500 A.C). In the Basque Country and Andalusia she visited prehistoric caves, containing rock art dating between 66,000 and 8,000 years ago. "In these magnificent places, I felt connected to "Illo Tempore," the primordial and sacred time from which the first expressions of communication and art emerged."
All of these paintings—whether acrylic on canvas or paper—are a personal interpretation of the mysterious environments visited, and the images are not reproductions, but rather free strokes undoubtedly arising from her wonderful experience.
This exhibition is also participating of:
PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS | POST 2025
Saturday October 11 & Sunday 12, 12- 6 pm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jacqueline Unanue is a Chilean American artist of Spanish descent, who has resided in the United States since 2000. She studied design at the Universidad de Chile of Valparaíso, and received formal training in drawing, painting, art history and textile art. While a student, she became interested in the rock art found in Chile where she met world-renowned archaeologist, Hans Niemeyer, who soon became her mentor. She traveled extensively through Chile’s Atacama Desert, doing on-site rock art research. She also traveled to Spain to study the pre-historic paintings of the Altamira caves in the Basque Country, which being the home of her paternal ancestors.
Unanue has received numerous awards and grants and has widely exhibited her work in Chile, Spain, Finland, Ecuador, and Argentina, as well as in galleries in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Annapolis, Chicago, and New York. Her work can also be found in many private and public collections in the Americas and Europe. She resides in Philadelphia with her husband, and is represented by Muse Gallery, Philadelphia.