2012: Chopo Museum in Mexico City
In a show titled “Medios y ambientes” at Museo del Chopo in Mexico City, I exhibited my most massive work to date; a 12’H X 29’W pyramidal shaped installation (Hyperbolic Nature: La Florida) that was comprised of nine 5’ X 4’ on-site Florida paintings. My painting seemed very popular and I was one of two artists interviewed for several Spanish TV and radio stations. My installation was often described in the then popular, (well meaning but sexist descriptive) vernacular slang term "Padrisimo".
Articulo Noroeste copyABOVE is a small pdf link to a review in Noroeste Magazine and BELOW is a link to a review that shows some of the other works in the show (both are in Spanish). You can also see some of the other works on my "Gallery Views" link under "Painting Series" tab on my web page.http://bangbangbang.com.mx/medios-y-ambientes/
2011: Hambidge Residency
In October I had a short two-week residency at the Hambidge Center for the Arts in Georgia and was a featured artist during their annual open house and major fall festival arts event. While there, I discovered a new color of leaves to add to my fall palette that year (salmon pink) thanks to the turning of the sourwood trees. Hambidge is nestled in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge and Mountains (10 miles south west of the NC border) and is on about 600 acres of beautiful wooded rolling hills complete with an impressive waterfall and meandering streams. They have about a dozen cabins , each designed to house either writers, composers, choreographers, musicians or visual artists. It was a great, but too short, experience and I look forward to returning.
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: 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.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Turk Work
Tulips originated in Turkey, not Holland, and the tulip is the symbol of Istanbul, second only to carnations in the number of places it is represented. When I returned from Istanbul, I knew that the works I wanted to create for my show at Artane the following summer were going to be based on those amazing tulip and carnation designs seen painted in such seductively styled ways on ceramics and fiercely abstracted in carpet designs. I also knew that my new works would be hybrid in nature: that they would be on paper and would use various printmaking techniques (screen printing, stencils, stamps) that allowed for me to make repeatable elements (both with complex geometric mathematically-based designs and flower abstractions derived from Turkish carpet motifs) ; and that they would use painting (water-based acrylics, guaches), water colors and inks) and even drawing here and there for good measure. I had already bought a dozen old wooden fabric dye-stamps in the Grand Bazaar and had taken lots of photos of as many tiles and carpets that had tulip, carnation and general garden motifs I could find so I came back to the studio running. Within a month, I had created and carved over 50 stamps out, made 12 screens and numerous stencils so I went to town "painting" with my printing tools. I wanted to combine the rigid elements of the geometric designs with the more fluid elements of the flower motifs, in part, because I see Istanbul as a place were literally the West meets the East in a type of odd harmony. Below you can see examples of some of my stamps that I was testing and grouping. You can also see that a type of visual entropy quickly moved into my aesthetics as I quickly moved from a more harmonic sacred geometric feel in the work to an asymmetrical free-form of dense clustering of forms. UNFORTUNATELY, as I was in the middle of working on this new and exciting project, I found out that the gallery was going to close that year so that meant my exhibition would happen. I put all of these works in-progress on hold and never showed any of them.....waiting for the right time to get back to them.
2010: Istanbul in the Summer
Opened in 2005 by Sevil Sert, ARTANE Gallery is a unique gallery in the centre of Istanbul acts as a bridge between Turkey and the International art world by enabling a platform in which artists of many nationalities can create and show new projects. Ms. Sert lived in Cuba for several years and has a deep interest in contemporary Cuban art and artists, living both in and outside of Cuba and specializes in showing their work so it was not a total surprise that when she saw my work at Carol Jazzar's booth at the BRIDGE fair during the Miami Beach Art Basel in 2008 and liked it...so she asked me if I would be interested in visiting Istanbul and making some new work to show at her gallery there...guess what I said:)
During my 10 day visit, I did mange to go to all the major historical sites and museums but I was particularly taken by the bazaars....the Grand Bazaar and Spice Bazaar that I show images of below.
2010: INFLUENCES-Turkish Rugs
GARDEN and GEOMETRIC FLORAL are my two most favorite Persian rug motifs.
I have been a life-long fan of Persian Miniature paintings.
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: 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: Escape Into Landscape
Escape into Landscape: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi in cluded my 2004 WA on-site painting titled Layered Views.
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