Past Exhibitions
Selections, a solo exhibition of paintings by nationally known artist Lillia Frantin, will feature a group of paintings focusing on the genres of landscape and still life. Sometimes described by the artist as “Neo-Fauvism,” Lillia’s work combines a bold use of color with emotive brushwork; the paint applied onto the canvas with a lyricism that echoes romantic expression. Colorful, lively and filled with light, her paintings have a direct, joyous sensibility and earnest response to experience.
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"With their immediacy and nearly spiritual intensity, Lillia Frantin's work links to the early Modernism of Van Gogh, Matisse and Bonnard. Yet, with color both sweet and robust, richly complex compositions, unexpected perspectives, flashes of bare canvas, line that shifts from bold to delicate, and paint so fresh and lush it seems almost edible, Lillia has created art that is distinctly recognizable and completely her own. The 'simple pleasures' of seeing and feeling fill her art... Each work a journey of discovery and expectation that places emotional response at its center."
- Excerpt from the catalogue essay for her show "Studio, Gardens and the Sea" at Wally Findlay Gallery, New York, 2008. |
About the Artist
Lillia Frantin received her Master’s degree from Pratt Institute in New York in 1968 and was a professor of Painting and Modern Art History for twenty years. She has exhibited professionally for over 40 years in New York City and the Hamptons, in Barcelona and Britanny, in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, Palm Desert, Boston, Atlanta, Palm Beach and most recently on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod. Her work has been featured in two museum one-woman shows and is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Great Britain. Over the past ten years, she and her husband, artist Herb Edwards, have conducted painting workshops in Provence, France; Ghost Ranch, Abiqui, New Mexico and in the historic artists’ colony of Provincetown, Cape Cod. Lillia is especially delighted to show her work for the first time at CANVAS ArtSpace, here in Hendersonville, and hopes you will enjoy her selection of colorful au plein aire landscapes and still-life paintings.
To see more of Lillia's artwork, please visit her website.
To see more of Lillia's artwork, please visit her website.
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