2016: Flatbed Press at 25
Flatbed Press at 25 By 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’ print shops 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, 2016 https://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. BELOW is an example of the work I did while there.
2016: Small Axe
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
2016: SECAC
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.
2016: Fleeting
2016: Art Miami (Cernuda Arte)
2016: Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence Program
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.
2015: Cernuda (Important Cuban Artworks)
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)
2015: Annual Art Faculty Exhibition
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/
2015: Valley House Gallery
VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY at 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.
2015: Martin Museum of Art
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
2015: HAMBiDGE
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!
2015: Into the Wild (Miami Dade College)
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 Gallery Martin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts
11011 S.W. 104th St.Miami, FL 33176
Opening ReceptionMeet the curator and artists. Saturday, October 31 p.m. For gallery hours, call 305-237-7700.
Review of show in Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article41377077.html
2015: Ringling Museum
EXHIBIT RUNS AUGUST 14 - OCTOBER 25
READ THE REVIEW BY SUSAN RIFE of the Herald-Tribune Sarasota:
2015: Art Miami (Cernuda Arte)
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
2015: 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!
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:)