Tamo Jugeli

Untitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm)

Tamo Jugeli relies on intuition to create her lyrical compositions. A self-taught artist, she subverts symbols and narrative to carve out her own sense of self in space. She aligns herself with wrist and body painters as she moves fluidly between large and small scale painting formats. Jugeli actively resists allusion, conjuring figures that emerge fortuitously and just as suddenly disperse into riots of color. The resulting works are charged with an emotional tone that oscillates between unwavering confidence and mischievous playfulness; her paintings are at once immediately recognizable yet totally inscrutable.

Jugeli (b.1994, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in New York, New York. She has presented solo exhibitions at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, Karma, Los Angeles, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, and Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi. Her work has been highlighted in group exhibitions at Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, the Hill Art Foundation, New York, and the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography, Mestia, Georgia. Jugeli will mount a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, in 2025.

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Tamo Jugeli in her Brooklyn studio, 2024