乔纳森·蒂格诺（Jonathan Tignor），1997年生于德克萨斯州达拉斯。蒂格诺的绘画在叙事结构上围绕着图像表现和张力营造展开。他针对暴力和不稳定性等主题，对国家身份进行了批判性反思。在他看来，美国性本质上建立在幻想、虚构和神话的基础之上，而他的作品则致力于剖析这些话语构建中潜藏的内在矛盾。蒂格诺认为，美国语境与某种危险的意味接近，而这种状态又依赖于一系列支撑它的文化幻想：探险家、开拓者、牛仔、战士、救世主等形象。

蒂格诺的画作在一种带有模糊性的叙事中酝酿真实，从而在观察和解释的过程中为创造性行为留出空间。画面中的张力不仅仅存在于人物或场景之间，而是延伸至更广阔的概念维度：现实与想象、再现与表现、观看与被看，从而形成多层次的理解结构。进而，他邀请观众驻足凝视，反思自身作为观者的角色身份。

Jonathan Tignor's (b. 1997, Dallas TX) paintings are narratively structured around concerns with imagery and tension. However, through an adroit approach, Tignor takes aim at themes of violence and precarity in a critique of his American identity. He views Americanness as built upon a bedrock of fantasy, fiction, and mythology, and he seeks to scrutinize the tensions inherent in these discursive constructions. To Tignor, the American context frequently operates in dangerous proximity to evil, and it is contingent upon the fantasies that support it: the discoverer, the explorer, the cowboy, the warrior, the saviour.

The narratives that unfold within the paintings are never clear. They simmer in ambiguity and allow space for the creative act within the processes of looking and interpretation. Tignor's paintings then ask viewers to linger with what's before them and question the role of their viewership. Consequently, tension, and its role as a narrative building block, is not confined to the relationships between figures or settings within the painting. The tensions expand outward: between the real and imagined, the represented and the representation, the viewer and the viewed.