2011: Art Museum of South Texas
Revelations: Women's Art from the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. My painting Layered Views (below) was used on the museum's invitation and press releases for this show.
2011: SCOPE NYC
My Miami dealer, Carol Jazzar, wanted to present my works as a solo show booth at the SCOPE art fair in NYC and I was VERY excited to oblige. I created a wrap-around, three walled installation of all of the larger fall-themed paintings I had so as to totally overwhelm the viewer with color, paint, oozed-out paint marks as they literally walked into my "Cumulative Nature" paintings. It was great hearing all the praise the audience (of all ages and backgrounds) was giving my works. People would come back multiple times to the booth and often bring a new person with them. It was so popular that it ended up Stephen Truax of Hyperallergic.com mentioned it as a highlight of the fair as did Art Slant's Natalie Hegert and other blog sites!!! Below are small pdf links to some.Hyper2011ScopeFairArtSlantDiversionsAndDistractionsScopeScopeNYCThingsISee
2011: Polk Museum
I was invited to have a solo show at the Polk Museum in Lakeland, FL and they offered to make a small catalog for the show titled "En Plein" Sight . It was for this catalog that the essay "Catching Up with the Instant", by Richard Shiff, was created and first published. Since my work is site-specific, I always like to try to able able to make at least one painting of the region I am exhibiting in. I mentioned this to the curator and he he made special arrangements for me to be able to paint at the Nature Conservancy's Disney Wilderness Preserve in Kissimmee, FL (central Florida) which turns out too be close to the museum.
Below is a small downloadable pdf of the exhibition catalog "En Plein" Sight that was published by the Polk Museum.PolkGarciaRoigCatalogRevision
OnViewLGR2011On View Magazine did a nice Profile on me in their 2011 Aug/Sept Issue (pages 116-117). Above is a link to a small pdf version of the article.
2011: An Essay by Richard Shiff
Richard Shiff and I were colleagues when I was teaching at The University of Texas at Austin. I admire how he writes in a way that satiates the art historians’ and theorists’ intellectual needs while engaging lay people and stimulating artists. After hearing Richard speak, I always felt like running to my studio and painting. He liked my work over the years, so I contacted him when I heard he would be visiting Florida State University (where I am a Professor of painting) as the 2010 Distinguished Speaker for the Art History Department’s annual symposium. He visited the studio and saw some of my new paintings. Since the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, was publishing a catalog for my upcoming exhibition, I asked him if he would consider writing about my work. He was particularly taken by my new water painting and asked if he could focus on those... as a result, he contributed the essay, Catching Up With The Instant, for which I am most grateful. A pdf of it can be downloaded below.ShiffEssay
2010: Summer Research-Water
In 2010 I returned to Washington state to paint. This time, however, instead of focusing the woods I wanted to paint the water because I had been so surprisingly intrigued by my first attempts at it the summer before. I had been trying to capture the changing light over the course of the day on dense woods (and trying to do so on a large scale) for a while and had actually been avoiding painting water...at least in Florida where the water is often stagnate & opaque and therefore, functions too much like a resting point in my paintings which is something I do not want in my highly active "over-all" compositions. In Washington state, however, there are clear, moving waters that have rapids, rocks and logs in them so it turned out these waters were even more complicated and had even more moving & changing color/parts than the woods. This meant I had to try to capture not just the surface of the water, but also the movement of that surface. On top of that, I had to capture the changing reflections of the sky and clouds as well as what I could see below the surface of the water as it ebbed and flowed down stream.
Talk about the complex nature of trying to capture first-hand the multidimensional and ever-changing experience of being in a specific location...painting water was it! I was mesmerized and hooked...I rented a cabin with a small, make-shift shed-studio were I was able to spend almost a month painting by the banks of the Skykomish River.
2010: CAA in Chicago
Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization Regional Women Artists: Exploring Nature, Spirituality, and Universal Order Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago Chair: Kyra Belan, Broward College; Mother Earth, Thought Woman: Mixed-Media Installation Kyra Belan, Broward College A New Urgency and Relevance in Postmodern Plein-Air Painting Lilian Garcia-Roig, Florida State University; Women, Nature, and New Technology Jeane Cooper, Florida Atlantic University; Tribute and Remembrance: Vanitas and the Holocaust in the Works of Helene Baker Debra Murphy, University of North Florida.
2010: Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
This exhibition Hyperbolic Nature: Recent Paintings by Lilian Garcia-Roig took place in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville and the works were exhibited in two different parts of the museum, over two different floors. Above yo see views of the Atrium Gallery which is the first exhibition space one sees when you enter the museum. Normally a large Joan Mitchell painting hangs there so I was surprised and honored to be asked to hang this installation of my large-scale MacDowell paintings for the duration of my show. Below are views of the second floor galleries. 
Above is a photo of me standing next to Debra Murphy, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at University of North Florida. She wrote the essay in the catalog that is available to download as a large (25MB) pdf. 2010MOCAbrochure
2010: More than a Brush With Nature
More than a Brush With Nature: Plein-Air Paintings by Lilian Garcia-Roig was a solo exhibition at University of North Florida's Art Gallery in Jacksonville, FL. I was also a visiting artist there and gave a gallery talk. This show opened concurrently with a larger show I was having at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville so I basically was showing everything I had left in my studio in the city of Jacksonville for the months of November & December! Debra Murphy, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at UNF, curated this show and she wrote an article about this show for the Oct/Nov issue of Arbus (North Florida's Arts & Business Magazine) magazine (pages 58-62), She also wrote a curatorial essay for the catalog for the MOCA.
2010: New American Paintings # 88
was included in New American Paintings #88 (Southern edition) juried by Barbara O’Brien, curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO. In her juror’s comments (p 3.), she was impressed by my monumental use of scale and called my works, “tour de force reinvestigations of the plein-air painting tradition”…Wow.
2010: "Caught in the Act of Looking"
I was invited to be a visiting artist and have a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery at Broward College in March of 2010. I was able to show extensive works from WA as well as some from NH & FL.
2009: "Space; Unlimited" @ AMOA
Space; Unlimited was a collaborative curatorial exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMOA) which is part of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C. The exhibition opened February 21 and ran through April 12, 2009. It was the most visited exhibition of contemporary art the museum had ever had and it was widely, and positively reviewed...so much so that a museum in Mexico City asked to try to have a version of the show go there. Below is a small pdf of the exhibition brochure that includes two brief curatorial essays ("Resounding Space" and "Mediums Unbounded") by each of the curators: Laura Roulet, an independent curator from the DC area and Tatiana Flores, Art History associate professor at Rutgers University. See small pdf below to read their essays.AMOAbrochureDCABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Space, Unlimited includes the work of seven contemporary artists who challenge the boundaries of physical, perceptual or psychological space. Through a variety of mediums, from painting and photography to assemblage and video, these artists defy expectations that may be traditionally imposed over the form or content of their work or their artistic identities.FEATURED ARTISTS: Guerra de la Paz, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Magdalena Fernández, Angela Bonadies, Ara Ararauna, Ada Bobonis, Nayda Collazo-Llorens.*A web link to the Art Museum of the America's webpage archive of this show is below:http://museum.oas.org/exhibitions/2000s/2009-space.html*In addition, below is a small pdf of the AMOA's website that shoed an example of each art it's work in the show.AMOAwebSU*Below is a small pdf of the Washington Post's front page Arts section review of "Space; Unlimited" by Jessica Dawson.AMOASpace,UnlimitedWashPost*Below is a pdf of Terri Weissman Art Nexus review of "Space; Unlimited"ArtNexusDCNews
2009: TIME + TEMP
TIME + TEMP: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida Nov 16, 2009 – Jan 10, 2010 Opening Reception Fri, Nov 20
Curated by Jane Heart and exhibited at the Hollywood Arts and Culture Center, this exhibition presents a survey of dynamic work by a selection of South Florida based artists who embrace and incorporate aspects of painting into their practice. A resurgence of painterly tendencies is currently taking hold among artists on a national even international level. Its growing appeal is also evident within the ever expanding contemporary art community in our region. On view will be work by approximately 50 artists who are in different ways investigating and pushing prevailing definitions of painting. Boundaries of form have been expanded through a variety of techniques utilizing a broad range of materials. Some pieces have been created specifically for this exhibit yet are made with media other than traditional pigment-based paint on canvas. Representation and abstraction continue to be very much at the forefront of this genre. However issues which have dominated painterly themes, such as color, surface, narrative and gesture are finding new expressions in a variety of unconventional and energized styles. Our tropical, lush and organic natural environment intersected by gleaming architectonic towers of light, glass and concrete set the stage for fertile and flowing currents of invention which are reflected in this diverse array of works. Participating Artists Harumi Abe, Farley Aguilar, Kevin Arrow, Bhatki Baxter, Loriel Beltran, Francie Bishop Good, Pip Brant, David Brieske, Timothy Buwalda, Julie Davidow, Ivan Toth Depeña, Clayton Deutsch, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Lynne Gelfman, Mike Genovese, Mark Gibson, Jacin Giordano, Aramis Gutierrez, Guerra de la Paz, Richard Haden, Jason Hedges, Craig Kucia, Natalya Laskis, Nicolas Lobo, Pepe Mar, Jordan Massengale, Raul Mendez, Beatriz Montevaro, Gean Moreno, Daniel Newman, Glexis Novoa, Ray Olivero, Skot Olsen, Brandon Opalka, Perry Pandrea, Raul Perdomo, Gavin Perry, Vickie Pierre, Oliver Sanchez, Asser Saint Val, Diego Singh, Nancy Spielman, Alex Sweet, Runcie Tatnall, Kristen Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Kiki Valdes, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Chuck Webster, Agatha Wara, Michelle Weinberg and John Zolle. 
Below is a pdf of a review of the show in the Broward/Palm Beach New Times by Michael Mills which mentions my work. %22Time+Temp%22 at the Art and Culture Center Proves That Painting Is Not Dead
2009: "Autumn Spectacles"
In January had my with solo show at Valley House Galley in Dallas. This show featured works created during the fall seasons at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and Texas works produced on a private 4000 acres ranch next to Lost Maples State Park in Bandera County, the heart of the Texas hill country. There were even a few paintings created in northern Florida in the fall but they paled in comparison, color-wise, to the other regions.
2009: "Nature of Being There"
I was invited to have a solo show in January of 2009 at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (in what then called Edison College) in Ft. Myers, FL. This is an amazing and vast space that is used by the university and community as an arts center with an active regional and national roster of exhibits but it was originally designed and funded by Bob Rauschenberg, in part, so that he could have a proper place to show his monumental works that was close to his studio. I was able to show a different configuration of my Hyperbolic Nature: Northern Florida Series that I originally conceived for the Huntsville Museun the year prior as well as most of my larger-scale painting grouping from WA, NH and FL.
2009: Florida Museum of Women Artists
I was invited to be in the Inaugural Exhibition of the Florida Museun of Women Artist in Deland, FL which took place in the fall of 2009. My painting, Cumulative Nature: Serpentine Vines (FL) triptych, won a juror's award.
2009: "Into the Wild"
In October 2009, Carol Jazzar Gallery in Miami presented Into The Wild, a group exhibition of figurative and abstract painting and sculpture from local and national artists working with nature. Echoing the current revival of nature-based subject matter each artists plumbs the depths of personal experience, reacting and representing their impressions with fervor. From gestual forays to labor intensive and methodical systems the exhibition not only resonates aesthetically, but also by virtue of the many processes involved is analogous itself to an ecological web. The exhibition featured works by Ai Kijima, Elizabeth Condon, John DeFaro, Luis Garcia-Nerey, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Enrique Gomez De Molina, Juanita Meneses and Michelle Weinberg.
2008: MacDowell Gala
I was honored to be one of a handful of recent resident colony artists asked to show images of their works as part of the program for the annual MacDowell Colony National benefit in New York City at 7 World Trade Center. Jane Alexander was being honored for her outstanding contributions and service as an advocate for the arts.
Five of my new NH on-site paintings completed during my fall 2008 residency. Each painting is 60" x 48"
2008: MacDowell Colony Residency again!
After the great strides I made with my works during my too-short, one-month, fall residency at MacDowell in 2006 I was determined to return to take up where I left off. In that short but highly productive residency, I was able to increase the intensity and variety of the color palette I could use due to the spectacular fall foliage and was able to extend the act of painting to a full-day's length which allowed the process of applying paint to become a performative act. I was also able to successfully increase the scale of my final works to 60" x 48" and now I wanted to make an entire series of these larger paintings that would use the fall palette. Luckily I was able to do just that, in part because I was granted my first sabbatical in the fall of 2008 and I was simultaneous accepted back to the MacDowell Colony that fall.
2008: Florida Individual Artist Fellow
In 2008 I was awarded a highly competitive STATE OF FLORIDA INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP which came with a $5000 award. You can see my profile and read more about this program by going to the Division Of Cultural Affair's link below.http://dos.myflorida.com/cultural/grants/grant-programs/individual-artist-fellowship/fellowship-recipients/profiles/lilian-garcia-roig/
2008: Huntsville Museum
The Encounters series of solo exhibitions at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL, is designed to highlight outstanding regional contemporary art and they are organized by Peter J. Baldaia, the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the museum. I was invited to be part of this series after my 5’ X 12’ triptych titled Fall Paths (NH) was awarded First Place by the juror and also won the People’s Choice Award from the general audience at the museum's Red Clay Survey show in 2007. This was the first time in the show’s long history that both awards had been given to the same work. My work turned out to so popular that the director invited me to have a solo show the following year. The main gallery was very large and the back space lent itself to be configured into an installation space so over the course of the year, I was able to create a my largest installation to date: fifteen on-site Florida paintings (each 60"H X 48"W) that I titled the Hyperbolic Nature: Northern Florida Series for the museum. Below are some images from that show but more can be seen on on web page under "Gallery Views".
The image below is of the painting that the museum purchased for their permanent collection. The work was created on-site in Paint Rock, AL, just north of Huntsville, during my week-ling working visit to a private 3000 acre nature and hunting conservation area in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains that the museum's staff was able to arrange for me. The link below will down load a 6.6 MB pdf file of the Huntsville Museum's Encounters catalog that contains an extensive Q&A essay conducted by Peter Baldaia.2008HuntsvilleCatalogSM
