Professor Garcia-Roig Having Solo Show at Valley House Gallery in Dallas

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Cumulative Nature: Rocks and Rapids, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

“Cumulative Nature: Water COLORS”

Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas

February 1 – March 7, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 1, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 1, 11:00 am & Informal Talk at 5:30pm

from FSU Art Professor Lilian Garcia-Roig:

This series of on-site paintings was made during the summer of 2019 on the banks of the Skykomish River in the foothills of the Cascades mountains in Washington State. As in my other plein-air works painted in forests, these paintings document a real-time process: the accumulation of fleeting moments experienced on site. Working with oil on canvas, the paintings are produced in a wet-on-wet, cumulative painting manner that was influenced by the watercolor and gouache works I made there in 2016. This summer was only the second time I have been able to spend an extended period working in oil on this singular, complex subject—the COLORS in water.

Lilian Garcia-Roig was born in Havana, Cuba, reared in Houston, and lives in Tallahassee, where she is a Professor at Florida State University. She earned degrees at Southern Methodist University (BFA) and the University of Pennsylvania (MFA), and has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowship Award in Painting, a Skowhegan Residency, two Fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, a Kimbrough Award from the Dallas Museum of Art, and a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship.

Valley House Gallery is honored to present our 10th solo exhibition of her paintings. View the exhibition at valleyhouse.com or call 972-239-2441 for information
Gallery Hours: 10 – 5, Monday – Saturday