2024
Special thanks goes to Rangsook Yoon Ph.D., Senior Curator at the Sarasota Art Museum, for writing a curatorial essay for the catalog "Cumulative Nature" produced by Valley House Gallery in conjunction with my show "On-Sitefulness".
Special thanks goes to Rangsook Yoon Ph.D., Senior Curator at the Sarasota Art Museum, for writing a curatorial essay for the catalog "Cumulative Nature" produced by Valley House Gallery in conjunction with my show "On-Sitefulness".
If in Asheville, NC stop in to the gallery or see my paintings at: https://momentumgallery.com/exhibitions/103/works/artworks6250/
When the Tropics are Quiet
Curated by Vladimir Cybil Charlier
March 10- May
If in the Upstate NY area, drop by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Gallery to see the 2023 AIR show-
Closing reception & informal artist talks on June 9, from 4-6pm - (I will be there)
During my spring
Scholar/Artist-In-Residence
period at
University of Miami
, I was able to flush out and prototype a small version of my
"Re-Collecting Roig"
project that focused on the over 500 specimens collected by Juan Tomas Roig that are currently in the New York Botanical Garden's Steere Herbarium. This research and developing works were initially funded by my
2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
in the Creative Arts with additional support and thanks to
South Arts
- for a 2024 Career Opportunity Grant.
Wonderful to be selected as a 2024 Artist-In-Residency at the amazing Deering Estate in south Miami. The AIR Program offers professional visual, literary, performing, and cross-disciplinary artists the opportunity to pursue innovative projects and studio work, connect with other artists, and engage the public while interacting with the historical, architectural, intellectual, archeological, and natural elements of the Estate’s inspiring environment.
https://deeringestate.org/arts-exhibitions/art-residencies/artists/
https://deeringestate.org/arts-exhibitions/art-residencies/#
Cumulative Nature: Deering Banyan Diptych
, 2024. oil on canvas. 4' x 6'
2023
If you are going to attend Art Basel Miami Beach week- please go by Art Miami, where Cernuda Arte will be showcasing some of my most recent on-site Florida works like the image above. Cumulative Nature: North Florida Diptych, 2019, 4' x 6'
If you are going to attend Art Basel Miami Beach week- please go by Art Miami, where Cernuda Arte will be showcasing some of my most recent on-site Florida works like the image above. Cumulative Nature: North Florida Diptych, 2019, 4' x 6'
Special Thanks to Susanna Coffey and all of the folks who visited the open studio where I show some examples from each of the three residencies I attended this summer/fall- Can't wait to see you all back in NY this spring!
Super honored to the the Milton and Sally Avery Fellow at Art Omi this summer- It was an amazing experience to be surrounded by such talented artists from around the word- Those three weeks in upstate NY were highly enjoyable (and productive, despite the incessant rains and Canadian smoke). Special thanks to Francis Greenberg for supporting such an expansive and creative residency and Art Park as well as to Claudia Cannizzaro & Nicole Hayes for making our 2023 Artists residency so special-
Learn more about the artists here: https://artomi.org/art-omi-artists-2023/
Honored to be selected as a CORE Fellow at Millay Arts for the month of October. Founded in 1973 and located at “Steepletop,” the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay (one of the first women to win a Pulitzer Prize), Millay Arts is a nonprofit organization that offers multidisciplinary artists residencies on our campus as well as in the community. Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshire foothills of Austerlitz and surrounded by the beautiful Harvey Mountain State Forest. Millay Arts supports the work and creative process of multidisciplinary artists through a range of residencies that enrich lives and communities locally and globally.
Honored to be selected as the 2023 Pollock-Krasner Artists-in-Residence Fellow at Byrdcliffe. Byrdcliffe was founded in 1902 so it is the oldest continuously operating "artist residency" in the country. The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is a regional center for the arts located in Woodstock, New York. Every year the Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence program provides over 60 visual artists, writers, architects, and composers of exceptional talent from all over the country uninterrupted creative time within the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Special thanks to the super amazing director at the time, Anna Marie Rockwell, whose expertise, professionalism & dedication made the experience exceptional.
Very excited to be featured in this exhibition alongside so many excellent artists- for more more information on the show, including a curatorial statement, please touch this LINK.
Show opens Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 6:00pm (with a reception and artists conversation with me)
and runs through Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 6:00pm
Brodsky Gallery in the Kelly Writers House on the UPenn campus
3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Lilian Garcia-Roig, a professor in the Department of Art, has been named Florida State University’s 2023-2024 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor.
Read more about this here: https://news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humanities/2023/04/19/renowned-fsu-artist-named-2023-2024-robert-o-lawton-distinguished-professor/
“MoFA Uncorked: Deep Roots” will highlight FSU Department of Art faculty member Lilian Garcia-Roig, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, and Anjali Austin, chair of the School of Dance from 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, at the Museum of Fine Arts located at 530 W. Call St. Garcia-Roig will discuss her work “Plein-Aired Histories,” a series of landscape paintings created during her residency as the recipient of the Blackwell Prize exploring the complicated history of a rural Georgia town. She will discuss her creative process and the research and methodology behind the pieces.Learn more here: https://news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humanities/2023/05/15/fsu-mofa-hosts-new-cocktail-hour-exhibition-series/
State of Florida: UnControlled Burn
, 2019, 48" x 72" diptych
Presenting two new exhibitions to bring in the New Year:
An Outside Chance features the works by artists Ann Marie Auricchio, Keith Crowley, Lilian Garcia-Roig, and Mark Messersmith. These four artists, currently working in the south, make work that responds to their environment. Curated around this theme, the exhibition highlights a variety of forms and interpretation related to landscape.
Dry Cypress Bayou: A solo exhibition of sculptural drawings by New Orleans Artist Hannah Chalew is also centered around landscape and surrounding environment.
Both Exhibitions open January 3rd with a reception January 7th, 5-9 pm in conjunction with the Arts District Art Walk & run through February 25.
IBIS contemporary art gallery
705 Camp StreetNew Orleans, LA 70130
Cumulative Nature: Charred Gateway
(St Marks, FL) 2005, 48"x36"
2022
Join Gallery114@HCC Ybor City Campus for the opening reception of Hyphenated Nature on Thursday, February 17, 2022 from 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Who we are and where we are from—two seemingly simple inquiries—are complex territories for negotiation that shape the core of our personal identity. Florida-based artist Lilian Garcia-Roig (b. 1966, Cuba) uses landscape painting as a vehicle for examining notions like sense of place, belonging, and identity in both perceptually-based plein-air paintings and conceptually-based studio works. In Hyphenated Nature at Gallery114@HCC, Garcia-Roig displays her two approaches to landscape painting side-by-side, reconciling on-site works that capture dense, expressive vegetation with paintings made in her studio using Cuban soil. Seen through the lens of Garcia-Roig’s Cuban-American experience, these distinct bodies of work call to mind the intricate nature of one’s own attachment to time, place, and the lands we inhabit.
A talk by artist Lilian Garcia-Roig will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater, YPAB.
Curated by Amy Galpin
In the Mind's Eye
runs until January 8, 2023.
Catalog (Below) with essay by Amy Galpin, Chief Curator of the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum is available for purchase from the FIU Museum store in hard & soft cover.
ISBN 978-1-7375994-1-8
Th learn more about Juan Tomas Roig, touch the link on his name.
https://artscenter.vt.edu/exhibitions/garcia-roig.html
Lilian Garcia-Roig- "Homage to Vinales"
& Perri Neri- "Shifting Ground"
Join Gallery114@HCC Ybor City Campus for the opening reception of Hyphenated Nature on Thursday, February 17, 2022 from 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Who we are and where we are from—two seemingly simple inquiries—are complex territories for negotiation that shape the core of our personal identity. Florida-based artist Lilian Garcia-Roig (b. 1966, Cuba) uses landscape painting as a vehicle for examining notions like sense of place, belonging, and identity in both perceptually-based plein-air paintings and conceptually-based studio works. In Hyphenated Nature at Gallery114@HCC, Garcia-Roig displays her two approaches to landscape painting side-by-side, reconciling on-site works that capture dense, expressive vegetation with paintings made in her studio using Cuban soil. Seen through the lens of Garcia-Roig’s Cuban-American experience, these distinct bodies of work call to mind the intricate nature of one’s own attachment to time, place, and the lands we inhabit.
A talk by artist Lilian Garcia-Roig will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater, YPAB.
Check out some of the Reviews of the Tampa show at:
83 Degrees- by Caitlin Albritton: https://www.83degreesmedia.com/forgood/highlights-for-what-to-see-in-Tampa-Bay-Area-arts-in-February-020122.aspx
https://www.hccfl.edu/campus-life/arts/galleries-hcc/gallery114/past-exhibitions-gallery-114
Tampa Bay Times- review by Maggie Duffy: https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/visual-arts/2022/02/10/artist-lilian-garcia-roig-explores-identity-through-landscapes-in-tampa/
2021
So pleased to get to meet and be in conversation with Phyllis Hollis. She has an impressive line-up of artists and art world professionals that I have long admired so very honored to be counted among one of her interviewees-
The Cerebral Women Art Talks podcast is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.
So pleased to get to meet and be in conversation with Phyllis Hollis. She has an impressive line-up of artists and art world professionals that I have long admired so very honored to be counted among one of her interviewees-
The Cerebral Women Art Talks podcast is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.
Cumulative Nature: Painted Paint Rock
, 4'x 6' diptych, 2008
The fact that the first work of art purchased by the Abilene Fine Arts Museum in 1939 was painted by a woman artist and the fact that the museum was founded through the efforts of local woman’s club members, many of whom were artists, foretell the museum’s long history of exhibiting and collecting artwork by women artists. Paintings, fine art prints, and photographs in this exhibition featuring over 100 outstanding works of art from The Grace Museum permanent collection is a testament to the important contributions made by women artists in the 20th and 21st century.
Artwork by Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Marion Post Wolcott, Hung Liu, Peggy Bacon, Garciella Iturbide, Melissa Miller, Beili Liu, Helen Altman, Lillian Garcia-Roig, Toni LaSelle, and Mary Ellen Mark is presented “frame to frame” with exceptional artwork by other women artists of the past and present in solidarity of purpose and achievement in the visual arts.
https://www.thegracemuseum.org/exhibitions-list/2020/9/20/sherry-owens-outgrowth-jf6rd-jldzg
2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts
Thankful to the Guggenheim Foundation selection committee for their belief in and support of my work and honored to have been selected as a 2021 Fellow. I am particularly honored to be among such an outstanding group of artists, many of whom I have admired for a long time.
Thankful to the Guggenheim Foundation selection committee for their belief in and support of my work and honored to have been selected as a 2021 Fellow. I am particularly honored to be among such an outstanding group of artists, many of whom I have admired for a long time.
https://www.gf.org/about/fellowship/
https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lilian-garcia-roig/
2020
PAMM's weblink to my work-https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2020.133a-e
Oil on canvas (for the on-site paintings on the left & right sides) and acrylic and hand-made Cuban-dirt pigment on canvas (middle square) 30" x 78"
As an on-site painter, place is integral to both my subject and process, so when the COVID-19 crisis made traveling difficult, it became clear that I had to shift from working in the field to in the studio and virtual realms. This gave me the opportunity/excuse to fully focus on a research-based project first started during a 2017 working trip to Cuba. It centers on discovering links between my work as a painter and the scientific work of my great uncle, the renown Cuban botanist Juan Tomás Roig.
A deep dive into on-line herbarium archives resulted in finding an immense trove of botanical specimens that were named after Roig and/or collected by him. I found it curious that many of the endemic Cuban plants he collected had also migrated across the world; ultimately residing institutions such as the Smithsonian and Harvard.
These things – the closest I have to family heirlooms - are in museums I can only access digitally. As a Cuban born American citizen, I now find myself relating my own complex identity to these specimens. They illustrate the connections I have made to my environment, the history I lost when we fled Cuba, and the ever-shifting power dynamics that colonialism and migration create.
This work-in-progress “Recollecting Roig” series is a reclamation gesture made by a Cuban-born, American-raised landscape painter yearning to capture and connect to her truncated personal, cultural and artistic heritage. Tallahassee, FL, Summer 2020.
See the full Issue #63 of Arts District Magazine: FLORIDA https://indd.adobe.com/view/3a8c4022-5a86-4457-b788-4f55b3c0af7b
REMAKE/REMODEL
Curated by Amelia Biewald & Jason Clay.
The seemingly endless storm of recent events has me thinking of ways artists interpret and process their surroundings. The creation of art reflects the artist’s response to their world, and that can be both beautiful and ugly. I have been revisiting the often politically charged and highly critical works of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, and their impactful and sometimes disturbing reflections — on racial discrimination, war, woman’s rights, religion, the environment and moral hypocrisy. Their large-scale installations or tableaux are assemblages of fragments of cultural objects and detritus with found images, advertisements, photographs, text, furniture, interiors, plaster casts, and animals. These objects hint at multiple layers of life experience and our surrounding society. These adulterated and repurposed materials spoke directly to the inhumanity and social injustices of 20th century society.
Fast forward to the inhumanity of the 21st century: little has changed, and it needs to. The Royal is seeking artists who strive to REMAKE / REMODEL in these chaotic times. While documenting this current turmoil is important, we’d like to also think of what comes after. How do you reinvent or alter imagery or objects in your work? How does your process of making uncover further narrative or meaning? How do you reflect on your world? Through art and creativity perhaps we can look for a common ground and come together to reinvent a better future.
Featured artists: Nicole Awai, Julie Blume, Michael Pribich, Esperanza Cortez, Kris Rac, Cecile Chong, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Yuliya Lanin, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Julien Tomasello, Tessa Krieg, Elena Chestnykh, & Benjamin Cabral.
https://wiregrassbiennial.com/works/cumulative-nature-north-florida-palm-brush/
B:20 interview link: https://www.wiregrassmuseum.org/b20-artist-interview-with-lilian-garcia-roig-3/
Thank you to all who voted for my work "Cumulative Nature: Northern Florida Palm Brush" (48" x 72"), 2020 - It was wonderful to receive the People's Choice Award!
https://www.wiregrassmuseum.org/wma-announces-prize-winners-for-b20-wiregrass-biennial/
http://wiregrassbiennial.com
THE FLORIDA CONTEMPORARY REOPENED & EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 2021-
https://artisnaples.org/baker-museum/exhibitions/2020-21/florida-contemporary
-Painting on-site summer of 2019 - looking at the clear, rushing melted ice water of the Skykomish River located in the foothills of the Cascades Mountains in NW Washington State-
Easley Magazine
2019
Overton
2018
2019
Pleased to be featured in the NOV/DEC issue of the The Pennsylvania Gazette in their Arts section. The article was written by Danielle Braff.
You can read the full article on line at:
https://thepenngazette.com/imaginary-homelands/
Sneak-peek at some of the new Hecho Con Cuba works made during my 2-week residency at VCCA- Interesting how when I was working at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains I ended up making works about chasing the Caribbean picturesque in a post-utopian landscape by literally super-imposing the iconic Pinar del Rio Cuban landscape (with Cuban soil I turned into pigment from the Viñales Valley) onto the Modernist grid (which were based on the local house colors)-simultaneously embracing and rejecting "the grid"-
What’s So Funny About the End of the World?
- an exhibition at Todd Art Gallery, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN. Artists: Chalet Comellas, Patrick DeGuira, Craig Drennen, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Kristi Hargrove, Ron Lambert, Judith Rushin & Clint Sleeper.
https://omart.org/exhibitions/2019_orlando_museum_of_art_florida_prize_in_contemporary_art/
https://www.facebook.com/OrlandoMuseumofArt/videos/vb.55260623619/411233306130958/?type=2&theater
YouTube video of the opening By Mark Kateli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPVj5w-oFY
Read the Orlando Sentinel's "Eyes on the Prize: Latest Florida Prize brings in artists from around the state" by Trevor Fraser at:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-et-florida-prize-orlando-museum-of-art-20190529-bbncxvez3fhlxml3bwglwrjet4-story.html
And make sure to hear the short video clip on the site by Trevore Fraser which talks about his favorite pieces-
Lilian Garcia-Roig: Featured Visual Artist for the 2019 MacDowell National Gala
Read a review of the show by Daniel Kany of the Portland Press Herald at https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/24/art-review-contemporary-art-of-caribbean-highlights-fraught-history/
So pleased to be part of "Made in Texas", an exhibition that is part of the "Latino Art Now" symposium and events in Houston. This show features Latinx women artists whose careers and production have been associated with Texas. All the works are drawn from The Gilberto and Dolores Cardenas Collection in Austin. Gilberto Cardenas, a professor of Mexican American & Latin American studies at both UT Austin & Notre Dame, has been a major figure in the exhibition, collection & promotion of Chicano & Latinx art for over 30 years. Artists in the show include: Connie Aristmendi, Ana Fuentes, Santa Barraza, Claudia Elisa Zapata, Candace M. Briceno, Suzy Gonzalez, Melanie Cervantes, Paloma Mayorga, Irene Perez & Me-
Below are two of the several works I exhibited at PARK AVE STUDIOS in Savanah as part of a pop-up show organized by Ms. Sharon Norwood. The exhibition's theme was "Hyphenated-Nature" because I paired some of my on-site US made works with my "Hecho Con Cuba" series-.
Read more about that series on my website at:
http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/HechoConCubaState.pdf
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/uploads/pdf/2018-WideningCircles-Web.pdf
So pleased to have been part of the early wave of female Texas artists that were invited to work at Flatbed Press in Austin. I used to do a lot of printmaking when I lived in Austin and Director Katherine Brimberry's enthusiasm for all things printed was contagious-Hope to be able to work with her again. Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle wrote a great article about the show "WOMEN OF FLATBED: A RETROSPECTIVE" which is currently on view at the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-01-11/celebrating-the-women-of-flatbed-press-at-printaustin-2019/
2018 Events
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/blog/widening-circles-announcementDOWNLOAD THE BOOK AT:http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/uploads/pdf/2018-WideningCircles-Web.pdf
So pleased to be part of Frost Museum's iteration of "Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago". If you are in the Miami area, please join me for the opening reception on Saturday, October 13 from 4-7. Also, the show will be on view and there will be special programing events at the Frost during Art Basel Miami-
Cernuda Arte will be featuring several of my new works from my "Hecho En Cuba" & "Reconstructed Sights" series at their booth in Expo Chicago. More work from this series will be exhibited in my upcoming solo show with them that opens Friday, November 2. They produced a catalog for that show that includes an essay by FIU art historian Carol Damian.
ALSO, I will be giving a gallery talk about my work in the the exhibition ("Fluid Perceptions: Banyan as Metaphor") starting at 1pm on Saturday, June 2.
Other artists talking about their work that day are (from left to right) Lisa Soto, Anvil Gosine, Edgar Endress, & (not pictured) Carlos Martiel...also in picture below, curator Tatiana Flores and participating artist Nicole Awai.
https://wallach.columbia.edu/exhibitions/relational-undercurrents-contemporary-art-caribbean-archipelago
www.artandhistory.orghttp://artandhistory.org/event/enchanted-florida-picturing-contemporary-landscape
Show runs through April 27. bluespiral1.com
HECHO CON CUBA series at FSU's MOFA
After returning from working on-site in Cuba, I was an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. While there, I was able to develop off-site works that were considering more conceptual approaches to the Cuban landscape, color/ perception, and painting from both Western and Caribbean perspectives. The FSU Museum of Fine Arts is showcasing some of these works for the first time. The show will be up through February 5. To read more about these works, please go to the link below:http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/HechoConCubaState.pdfto see more works from this series, go to:http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/hecho-con-cuba/Cernuda Arte will be showing my new HECHO EN CUBA paintings this year. A solo show of these works will open May 4 but a sneak preview is up now. These paintings were made on-site in, in the iconic Pinar del Rio region of Cuba....I was trying to (as literally as possible) follow in the footsteps of the great Cuban landscape painters...while still trying to do my own Cuban-American thing.You can see more of these works on my website:http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/hecho-en-cuba/
RELATIONAL UNDERCURRENTS show extended through March 4.
In a new review of Relational Undercurrents James Scarborough writes, "WHAT IF I JUST HAD 20 MINUTES? Once you understand how banyan trees grow from seeds that land on other trees and, over time, germinate and strangle their host, you'll better appreciate the incisive commentary of Lilian Garcia-Roig’s Fluid Perceptions: Banyan as Metaphor, 2016."- January 29, 2018Great to see that my painting was the first work prioritized to see if you only had 20 minutes to view the show-read the full review at:http://perhapsperhapsperhaps.typepad.com/what_the_butler_saw/2018/01/relational-undercurrents-contemporary-art-of-the-caribbean-archipelago-museum-of-latin-american-art-.html
2017 Events
Very excited to see a great review by Carol Damian of the Relational Undercurrents show at MOLAA in the new Art Nexus issue No. 107.My work Fluid Perceptions: Banyan as Metaphor is mentioned and reproduced in the article. You can purchase a hard or electronic copy of it at:https://www.artnexus.com/StoreSubscription.aspxor see a pdf of it on my website at:http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ArtNexusRelationalUndercurrents.pdf
Please listen to an interview I had with Antonio Ruiz of Palacio Magazine at:http://palaciomagazine.com/lilian-garcia-roig/
I am very pleased to announce my inclusion in and the release of Relational Undercurrents, a book published by Duke press that accompanies an exhibition curated by Tatiana Flores for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, which forms part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. This initiative examines the artistic legacy of Latin America and U.S. Latinos through a series of exhibitions and related programs. This exhibition catalog and volume edited by Flores and Michelle Ann Stephens calls attention to the artistic production of the Caribbean islands and their diasporas, challenging the conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America.This 352 page book includes 200 color plates and essays by the editors as well contributing essays by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Antonio Eligio Fernandez, Nicholas Laughlin, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jerry Philogene and Laura Roulet.https://www.dukeupress.edu/relational-undercurrents
THE EXHIBITION IS EXTENDED THROUGH FEBRUARY 25, 2018.
http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/en/exhibitions/exhibit/view/Relational-Undercurrents-Contemporary-Art-Caribbean-ArchipelagoRead an overview of the exhibition by Julia P. Herzberg in Arte Al Dia:http://www.artealdia.com/Pacific-Standard-Time-LA-LA/MOLAA-presents-Relational-Undercurrents-Contemporary-Art-of-the-Caribbean-ArchipelagoAnd additional articles:http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/10/29/10-best-art-exhibits-happening-in-l-a-right-now/http://artishockrevista.com/2017/10/17/tatiana-flores-relational-undercurrents-caribe/http://palaciomagazine.com/tatiana-flores/http://www.dailynews.com/2017/09/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-pacific-standard-time-lalas-celebration-of-latin-american-and-latino-art-culture-and-music/https://www.molaa.org/exhibition/relational-undercurrents/
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/center/artist-in-residence/2017-sessions/springhttps://joanmitchellcenter.today/lilian-garcia-roig/
Comma, Vol. 1, No. 1. - GHOST OBJECTS [the box] - is a portable gallery showcasing a curated collection of small and atypical works by Carolyn Henne, Kevin Curry, and Lilian Garcia-Roig, housed in a hand-crafted box made from recycled plywood. The issue includes texts by Judy and Rob Rushin. -Edition of 15Lilian Garcia-Roig’s Genus Roigia addresses the link between her work as a painter and the scientific research of her great-great uncle, the Cuban botanist, Juan Tomas Roig. Each piece is unique; made from one of Roig’s deconstructed paintings, her old paintbrushes, recycled leather shoes, and a polymer 3D print in a sterling silver bezel.
Comma is an annual, limited edition object collection, a curated collaboration of artists and thinkers from varied media, backgrounds, interests. For information on purchasing or participating in a Comma Project, please visit https://commabox.artFirst edition release date February 2017.
APRIL 6-9 @ the Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201http://dallasartfair.com
I have two paintings in the contemporary section of this show and was asked by the curator, Segundo Fernandez, to talk about my works during his curatorial talk on Wed, Feb. 8 at 7:30. Show runs through April 23. http://coralgablesmuseum.org
https://gallery.cah.ucf.edu/exhibit/in-the-eyes-of-the-hungry-floridas-changing-landscape/
2016 Events
I am VERY honored and excited to announce that I was selected to be an attendee at the Joan Mitchell Center 2017 Artist-in-Residence Program (MAY)!The Joan Mitchell Center, an artist residency in New Orleans, supports local, national & international contemporary visual artists.http://joanmitchellcenter.org
I am very pleased to have my painting Cumulative Nature: Native Oranges & Palms be mentioned and reproduced in an essay titled Contemporary Art of the Hispanophone Caribbean Islands in an Archipelagic Framework co-written by Tatiana Flores and Michelle Stephens. This essay was included in the The Idea of Hispanophone Caribbean Studies section, guest edited by Vanessa Perez-Rosario for the 51st issue of SMALL AXE, a Caribbean journal of criticism published three times a year by Duke University Press.More information on the publication and on how to order it can be found at:http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/51
On Friday, October 21, I presented a talk for the SECAC session:
CINTAS Foundation announce this year’s finalists for the annual CINTAS Knight Foundation Fellowship Competition: Pavel Acosta-Proenza, Aurora de Armendi, Ivan Toth Depeña, Vanessa Diaz, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Gabriel Martinez, Hugo Patao, Carlos Rigau, Norberto Rodriguez, Juana Valdes.The MDC Museum of Art + Design at the Freedom Tower will be exhibiting the visual arts finalists’ work through December 30, 2016. The exhibition, which features works by each of the visual arts finalists, is free and open to the public.CINTAS Fellowships acknowledge creative accomplishments and encourage excellence in architecture, literature, music composition and the visual arts. Eligibility is limited to artists of Cuban citizenship or direct descent (having a Cuban parent or grandparent).The jury: Amada Cruz, Director, Phoenix Art Museum; Stephen Maine, The School of Visual Arts, New York; Dominic Molon, Curator, RISD Museum; Shannon Stratton, Chief Curator; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Helen Toomer, Director, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair
Flatbed Press at 25By Mark Lesly Smith and Katherine Brimberry-A visual feast for connoisseurs of contemporary printmaking, this lavishly produced volume presents a twenty-five-year retrospective of one of America’s premier artists’ printshops and the prominent and emerging artists who have worked there.I am very honored to be a part of the long traditional of artists working at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas and to be included in a book that chronicles the press's 25 year history. This amazing small press invites artists from all over Texas to come to their studios to make new works and experiment with the printmaking medium.Published by University of Texas Press, 2016https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/smith-brimberry-flatbed-press-at-25
Although I was already primarily painting on-site, I valued being invited to go into the various print shops in Austin for some intensive experimentation. Each shop had its own speciality and equipment-Flatbed was known for its huge, Texas-sized press that many of us called the "the landing strip". I made a series of Mono-prints with Flatbed Press in the mid-1990's.In a printshop environment (indoors with no views of a landscape), I was essentially working in inverse: starting from seeing nothing to discovering how my process of arbitrary mark-making could lead me to discover an image emerging out of paint...one where the process and tools of the printmaking process were as evident as the illusionist image (of woods) created through the multiple press runs. ABOVE is an example of the work I did while there.
A new 10 month "pop-up" gallery in Palm Desert, California opens the end of August.http://www.thomasdeansfineart.com/new-location-in-california-for-thomas-de
https://newamericanpaintings.com/issues/124https://newamericanpaintings.com/artists/lilian-garcia-roig
MAY 3-8
I will be in NYC May 3-7 and will be attending the VIP Opening on May 3, from 2-7. Please come by and see me if you are there!
I am very honored to have two of my on-site landscape paintings included in the "contemporary section" of this exhibition. One work dates back to the early 90's when I spent a month working in the Taos Mesa in New Mexico. I was mostly helping my UT-Austin colleague hand-build an adobe house in the morning & painting in the afternoons (this was basically their back yard!) The other work is from my new home state of Florida and is a quintessential example of the dense, wild palms & vegetation found in the northern Florida wetlands. A 112 pg catalog was produced for the exhibition. Included are essays by the curator Segundo Fernandez and art historians Juan Martinez, and Paul Niell.You can get a catalog by contacting the museum.http://mofa.fsu.edu/cuban-art-in-the-twentieth-century-cultural-identity-and-the-international-avant-garde/
Below is a link to the ON VIEW MAGAZINE (Jan-March edition, pages 100-110) article on the show.http://onviewmagazine.com/pg-100-cuban-art-in-the-twentieth-century-cultural-identity-and-the-international-avant-garde/
2015 Events
The Art Miami Pavilion is located in the Wynwood Arts district 3101 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FLBooth C-21, December 1-6.Cernuda Arte will present Masterworks by Cuban Modern and Contemporary Artists: Wifredo Lam, Mario Carreño, Cundo Bermúdez, René Portocarrero, Mariano Rodríguez, Amelia Peláez, Víctor Manuel, Acosta León, Abela, Servando Cabrera Moreno, Agustín Cárdenas, Gina Pellón, Roberto Fabelo, Sosabravo, Flora Fong, Tomás Sánchez, Manuel Mendive, Pedro Pablo Oliva, Tania Bruguera, Lilian García-Roig, Miguel Florido, Dayron González, Joel Besmar, Irina Elén González, Giosvany Echevarría, and others.Cernuda Arte will also be presenting and distributing their newly published annual publication, Important Cuban Artworks, Volume Thirteen. A 180 page full-color catalog featuring over 270 images of outstanding artworks.www.cernudaarte.com
EXHIBIT RUNS AUGUST 14 - OCTOBER 25The artists will be giving Gallery Talks on Thursday @ 5pm on September 24
SARASOTA, FLORIDAwww.ringling.orgREAD THE REVIEW BY SUSAN RIFE of the Herald-Tribune Sarasota:http://www.ticketsarasota.com/2015/08/14/thinking-in-paint-fsu-art-professors-respond-on-canvas-to-ringling-museum-works/
Link to short, 4 minute video of the show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtDYinmOSq4&feature=youtu.be64 page catalog pdf (4 MG) belowCatalog Version Final-NewNote that to view the pdf as a magazine format in ADOBE READER, you must go to your menu bar and select "VIEW", scroll down to "PAGE DISPLAY", then select "TWO-UP CONTINUOUS" & "SHOW COVER PAGE DURING TWO-UP"
Into the Wild is a painting exhibition exploring the theme of nature.Curated by Carol Jazzar, it features contemporary South Florida artists Scott Armetta, Elizabeth Condon, John Defaro, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Ernesto Kunde, Magnus Sodamin, Donna Torres and Typoe. It also incorporates two masterworks by Augusto Chartrand Dubois and Miguel Arias.Spanning more than a century, the featured subjects are depicted in both figurative and abstract styles.All exhibitions are free and open to the public.Kendall GalleryMartin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts11011 S.W. 104th St.Miami, FL 33176Opening ReceptionMeet the curator and artists.Saturday, October 31 p.m.For gallery hours, call 305-237-7700.MiamiDadeIntoWild15Review of show in Miami Heraldhttp://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article41377077.html
I was very fortunate to able to have a short residency at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts in October during the peak fall season. While there I met numerous amazing creative folks-writers & poets as well as preforming & visual artists of all types-and was able to make a series of autumn based, small, on-site paintings...nature put on an amazing show to be inspired from for sure (as seen from the leaves that would drop on my porch (no filters!)This is a gem of an artists residency nestled in 600 acres in the mountains of northeastern Georgia (complete with waterfall!). I highly recommend it-please check them out athttp://www.hambidge.org/about.html
The Martin Museum of Art on the Baylor University Campus in Waco, Texas has recently acquired the painting "Greens On Greens & Yellows" (WA) diptych for their permanent collection! It will be on display June 2- July 17 in "Selections form the Permanent Collection" exhibition this summer.You can also see images from the recent Martin Museum of Art duo-solo show I was in with James Surls at: http://baylorlariat.com/2014/10/22/photos-art-exhibits/http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Surls-Roig_inside.pdfVALLEY HOUSE GALLERY @ the DALLAS ART FAIR April 9-12, Booth A5
COCA is kicking off this year with "30 for 30" fine arts exhibition at the City Hall Gallery. This show will celebrate thirty artists who demonstrate a record of success and accomplishments over the last thirty years while calling Tallahassee, Florida home. This reception is on, you guessed it, January 30th and I will have two large works in it.
Thomas Deans Fine Art690 Miami Circle NE #905Atlanta, GA 30324tel. 404 814-1811thomasdeansfineart.com
THE ANNUAL ART FACULTY EXHIBITION This exhibition is a showcase for the faculty artists of the Department of Art in the College of Fine Arts at FSU...you never know what to expect but you can always expect a lot! I will have some of my "still wet" on-site Florida paintings in this show. The exhibition runs January 9th through February 1st. Public reception: Friday, January 9th 6:00 - 8:00 PM 530 W Call Street, 250 Fine Arts Building Museum of Fine Arts Museum Hours: M- F 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sat & Sun 1:00 - 4:00 PM. Museum will be closed Monday, January 19th for MLK, Jr. Day. All museum exhibitions and events are FREE and open to the public! Visit the museum website for more information: http://mofa.fsu.edu/ 
I was honored to have several of my paintings included in this yearly catalog highlighting some of the works currently at Cernuda Arte in Coral Gables, FL. (pages 100 & 110)
2014 Art Miami
Cernuda Arte exhibited a large collection of Wilfredo Lam works as well as a group show that includes my paintings at Art Miami in Booth C-30ART MIAMI DATES AND HOURS:VIP PREVIEW - By InvitationDecember 2, 5:30 PM - 10:00 PMGENERAL SHOW HOURS:December 3 thru 6, 11:00 AM - 8:00 PMDecember 7, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
2014: Portable MacDowell
The MacDowell Colony just launched a new site that tracks what part of the country various MacDowell Fellows are exhibiting, performing or participating in other events that bare about their creative works. You can go directly to my page at the link below:http://portablemacdowell.org/#artists/lilian-garcia-roig
2014: Martin Museum of Art
The Martin Museum of Art (on the campus of Baylor University) in Waco will be hosting two concurrent solo shows: James Surls and me! Surls will have his large sculptures and drawings in Gallery 1 and I will have many of my large, on-site multi-panel paintings (from FL, GA, WA & NH) in Gallery 2 in a show I titled TIME SENSITIVE.Surls is a quintessential Texas artist who makes bold works and I am particularly excited about this show and the juxtaposition of our works because I have been a huge fan of both his monumental sculptures and drawings since I first saw them back when I was in high school. While our works are very different on the surface, I have always felt a strong connection to his work, his aesthetics, his process and the materiality of his pieces...I am a maximalist 2-D, colorful version of him, or something like that...I hope.
Below are two small png (like pdf) links to download more information about the artists in the show:Surls-Roiginside surls-roig-outsideBaylorKWTX.pnghttps://baylorlariat.com/2014/10/22/photos-art-exhibits/
2014: "A Mysterious Clarity: 2.0"
This was the decade anniversary of our inaugural exhibit at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee in 2004!...we are getting better with age-or at least our paintings are:)
2014: "A Transfer of Spirit"
There is a nice exhibition catalog with an essay by Roger Winter that was produced for the show A Transfer of Spirit at Kirk Hopper in Dallas . It is available for purchase through Kirk Hopper's webpage http://www.kirkhopperfineart.com
2014: "A Way of Remembering"
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.
"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
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.
2014: "LATIN AMERICA"
LATIN AMERICA NEW YORK AUCTION MAY, 2013
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
