2014: “A Way of Remembering”

“Old Hemlock & Maple Mossy Arches” (WA) Diptych 48″ x 72″, 2012

A Way of Remembering March 4 – 29, 2014 Twelve female abstract painters whose art demonstrates a loose, active brush, curated by Elaine Taylor. ARTIST: Suzan Cook, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Cynthia Hammett, Mary Clay Hernandez, Julie Lazarus, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Teri Muse, Harmony Padgett, Winter Rusiloski, Charlotte Seifert, Jennifer Stufflebeam and Mary Vernon.

“Cadmium Carnival” 30″ x 24″

“These paintings by twelve artists are loosely based on the landscape. The artists explore and explode the structure of land and architecture, the order of the universe, the poetry of place. They convey snippets of time and the intersections of life in their rawest forms of color, line and shape. Each artist works in an abstracted method of painting; taking the original source image and breaking it down into gestural brush strokes, broad swaths of color, drips, edges and lines. A new visual space is created in which the experience of the artist is recorded in energetic marks that speak of passion, and of the moment, frozen and then thawed. The resulting images both evoke the landscape and belie it, taking the viewer into an inner landscape of thought and memory.” –Elaine Taylor

“Trunk Pillar” (WA) 48″ x 30″

DETAIL of top middle right section of “Trunk Pillar” (WA)

VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY  opened its 60th Anniversary exhibition on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4. Congratulations to the Vogels on their amazing accomplishment. So proud that I have been showing with them since 1992! Below is an image of the work they included in their catalog for the show that can be ordered by contacting the gallery at    gallery@valleyhouse.com.

“Water Lily Island” FL 24″ x 24″, 2014

2014: “LATIN AMERICA”

LATIN AMERICA  NEW YORK AUCTION MAY, 2013

“Palmetto Brush” (FL) 2009, 48″ x 36″ Private collection

I was excited about having one of my Florida on-site paintings being included (and sold) in the Phillips Auction House Gallery’s show Latin America in NYC.

“Phillips is the destination for international collectors to buy and sell the world’s most important contemporary works of art. By focusing specifically on the defining aesthetic movements of the last century, we’ve set ourselves apart as the most dynamic and forward-thinking auction house”. It has the most active, contemporary focused Latin American Art Department of the auction houses so it is a great honor to have work included in this curated show and catalog since it is one of the most far reaching and respected of its kind and it contextualized my work with major international Latin American artists. Having my painting hung next to important Cuban artists such as Rene Francisco (middle), Kcho (far right-image below) and Carlos Garacioa (bottom photo, bottom right) and seeing how well it fit with their work –how at home it looked- made me realize that my Cuban identity, while rather assimilated into American culture, was intact & important and that my work does has a place within the continuum of Cuban Art.

Phillips produces large, beautiful full catalogs of all of the selected featured works in their various auction exhibitions and those catalogs are used by art collectors and curators as reference books on that show’s subject . You can purchase a catalog at:

https://www.phillips.com/catalogues/buy

2014: “Natural Exuberance”

“Big River Rocks” (WA) 30″ x 30″, 2010

“St Marks Inlet” (FL) 40″ x 30″, 2007

2014: “Driptorch”

“Charred Gateway” (FL) 48″ x 36″

“Hyperbolic Nature: Vine Twist” (FL) 60″ x 48″

2013: Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21

I was included in Volume 21 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Art & Architecture) in the chapter titled “Paintings and Painters, 1980-2012” (on page 143),  published by the University of North Carolina Press and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. I was surprised and honored to be included in such an important and respected reference book on this subject….I must be a true Southerner now!

This book can be purchased through the UNC press at http://www.uncpress.unc.edu or through Amoazon.com. Below is a small pdf of the section I am in.

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2013: “Sight-Specific”

The MAC believes that there is a rich art tradition in Texas that deserves to be nurtured and encouraged. Nearly twenty years of programming that consistently exhibits both native Texas artists and artists who are transplanted to Texas reflects this mission and desire to understand the region where we choose to live. This fall, The MAC is pleased to feature Southern Methodist Universities’ Meadows School of the Arts graduate and thirty year Texas resident, Lilian Garcia-Roig. Her exhibition, Sight-Specific continues The MAC’s tradition of exhibiting artists that developed their talent in Texas.

Sight-Specific is a selection of recent large-scale works and groupings that depict the dense forest landscapes from Northern Florida and Georgia as well as the Cascades Mountains in Washington State. Many works in the exhibition are from two on-going series: Cumulative Nature and Hyperbolic Nature. Garcia-Roig paints outdoors, a method art historically known as en plein air, a French expression for “in the open air”. However, unlike the 19th Century Impressionist painters who sought to capture a single moment, Garcia-Roig paints over the course of an entire day placing an important emphasis on the performative aspects of on-site painting. The changing of light and passing of time is imperative to documenting a first hand and extended experience of nature. Both series in Sight-Specific represent the first groups of large-scale paintings produced in this manner (rather than over multiple half-day sessions as she had done before) continuing to increase the productive tension Garcia-Roig seeks between the materiality of paint and the optics of representation.

Garcia-Roig considers her current reinvestigations of the traditional plein air methodology as an act of defiance in a virtualized world that often lacks unmediated or meaningful experiences with nature. In Garcia-Roig’s paintings there is an immediate sense of the temporal and sublime, that nature is intoxicatingly near and yet unreachable.

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“Water Flows” (WA) 36″ x 48″, 2011

You can see more exhibition views on my web page under “Gallery Views” which is the last row under my “Paintings Series” tab. Below is a very small pdf titled “Hidden Gems III”  that gives additional history and information about the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (the MAC) in Dallas:

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Meadows Museum & Sorolla

I was honored to be invited by the Meadows Museum on the SMU campus in Dallas, TX to give an Afternoon Gallery Talk in conjunction with their amazing show “Sorolla and America” which ran from Dec 13, 2013-April 19, 2014. http://www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org/about_Sorolla.htm My talk was titled: “Past and Present: Sorolla and the Tradition of Plein-Air Painting” and was on Friday, February 28, at 12:15 pm. I was told by Carmen Smith (the Director of Education at the Meadows Museum) that it was the most highly attended gallery talk they had ever had …..it was standing room only as almost two hundred people filled the galleries. It was great time for me as I got to see and talk about works I had admired for along time while also being able to have a wonderful Q&A with the audience. I think if you have any interest in perceptually-based painting, then Joaquin Sorolla is a “must-see”…Luckily his masterwork titled “Visions of Spain” has recently been cleaned an rehung in its own renovated gallery in the Hispanic Society of America in NYC.     http://www.hispanicsociety.org

2013: “Conspicuous Nature”

“Hambidge Autumn Diptych”, (GA) 48″ x 72″, 2011. private collection NY

DETAIL of top middle of “Autumn Hambidge Diptych”

Conspicuous Nature was a solo show at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdoasta GA. This large gallery space allowed me to present larger-scale works from four of the main regions I work: FL, GA, WA & NH. For this Nov. 2013 – Jan 2014 show, I made sure to include some of the fall-themed Hambidge works (like the one above) to remind the audience of just how amazing parts of their state are.

2013: “Saturation Points”

“Saturation Points” 48″ x 60″.private collection Dallas

DETAIL of “Saturation Points”

Saturation Points was my eighth solo show at Valley House Gallery in Dallas and the theme of that show was just it you thought it would be….some of my most intensely colored, all-day cumulative paintings from various fall periods, created mostly during my Hambidge residency and from my MacDowell Colony residency in NH (that I was finally willing to part with).

“Autumn Haiku” (GA) 30″ x 30″ , 2011

Below are small pdfs links of two local views:

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SMU Visiting Artist Lecture Series

2013: Fairs, Fairs & More Art Fairs

“White Waters” (WA) 24″ x 30″, 2011. Private Collection, Dallas

Valley House Gallery did not want to  miss the Texas art fair action so they exhibited at The Dallas Art Fair,  Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (CADD) Fair and the Houston Art fair where I was one of their featured artists.

2013: Art Wynwood

People in South Florida were getting more chances to see my work and they seemed to like what they saw.

“Cumualative Nature: Juniper & Palm Brush” 48″ x 36″. Private collection Miami.

2013: LA Art Show

“Maple Veils” (WA) 60″ x 48″

Painting In L.A.: Painting Highlights From LA ART SHOW 2013

2013: Cernuda Arte

“Cumulative Nature: Palm & Oak canopy” (FL) 48″ x 36″, 2012. In private collection Miami

In 2013 Cernuda Arte, a gallery in Coral Gables that specializes in Cuban art, began representing my work and they have featured my paintings in various group shows and art fairs such as the LA Art Show, Art Chicago, Dallas Art Fair, Houston Art Fair, Art Wynwood and Art Miami. I am scheduled to have a solo show titled “In the Thick of It: Lilian Garcia-Roig-A Decade of Painting in Florida” in February 2015 and that show will have an accompanying catalog and essay by Carol Damian , Director & Curator of the Frost Museum in Miami.

DETAIL of top right section of “Cumulative Nature: Palm & Oak Canopy”

More information on the gallery can be found on the small pdf below and on their website:  cernudaarte.com

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“Launching the Imagination”

I am very excited to let you know that my work has been selected for inclusion in the 5th edition of “Lauching the Imagination”…( I was extra excited to learn that my painting “Rock Flows” was select for the cover too! ) I am not alone in thinking this is one of the best studio arts foundation books out there given it is the most widely adopted foundations text in the country!…and there is even a Chinese translation/version now.

You can purchase the book through amazon.com, alibris.com or barnesandnoble.com CONGRATULATIONS to Mary for such an impressive accomplishment!