About the Artist
Biography
Native Californian Lil McGill is a painter and poet. Her ethereal abstracts, dreamscapes, studies and explorations of pure color and mood are inspired by Frankenthaler, Jenkins and Rothko, but have a style and energy uniquely their own.
She works with acrylic paint on raw canvas, which allows the colors to flow and blend to create their own worlds, reminiscent of deep space nebulas and starbursts, undersea visions, or O’Keeffe-like florals. Keenly interested in art as a form of healing, she plans to continue her painting explorations for years to come.
Lil McGill and her husband, artist and musician R.C. Trice, currently operate their own art company, and live with their children and assorted friends and wildlife in Grass Valley, California, enjoying working in an old barn which has been converted into artist studios.
Lil McGill Artist Resume
Exhibitions
2011 (March) All Blue -- Lapis and Turquoise Paintings, BroadStreet Bistro, Nevada City, CA
2011 (February - June) Vision Quest, Heartfire Studio, Grass Valley, California
2011 (February) The Amethyst Show, SummerThyme Gallery, Grass Valley, California
2010 (January-April) Shades of Saffron, In the Kitchen, Nevada City, California
2009-2010 (December 2009-February 2010) Latitudes Bistro, Auburn, California
2009 (October 10-11 & 17-18) Open Studio Tour, Nevada City, California
2009 (May 1-June 30) Community Art Show, North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, North San Juan, California
2009 (May 1-31) Small Works, As If Studios, Grass Valley, California
2009 (April) Peace Art, Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, California
2009 (Mar 29) Spring Open House, Teahouse of Danger, 206 Gethsemane, Nevada City, California
2009 (Feb 15-ongoing) The Flying Hare Gallery, 102 Mill Street, Grass Valley, California
2009 (Jan 1-31) SummerThyme Cafe, Colfax Highway, Grass Valley, California
2008 (Dec 12-Jan 9) New Work for the Old Soul, Old Soul Gallery, Midtown Sacramento, CA (Second Saturday Art Walk Dec. 13)
2008 (Oct-Nov) Bella Vita Gallery, Spring Street, Nevada City, California
2008 (Oct 9-Dec 8) Auburn Art Walk, Taste of Auburn, Auburn, California (Auburn Art Walk Oct. 9)
2008 (September 1-30) Coffee Town, South Auburn Street, Grass Valley, California
2008 (Aug 6-Aug 31) Aurora Borealis, New Artworks Gallery, Fair Oaks, California
2008 (June 27-Aug 15) Jazz at the Coppertop, Neal Street, Grass Valley, California
2008 (May 25 10am-5pm) Sierra Festival of the Arts, Mill Street, Grass Valley, California
2008 (May-August) Art of Healing, Auburn Faith Memorial Hospital, Auburn,California
2008 (February 1-March 15) Piscean Dreams, North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, North San Juan, California
2008 (January 1-March 31) Ethereal Abstracts, Spa Therapy, Yuba City, California
2007 (December) Above & Beyond, Stonehouse Gallery, Nevada City, California
2007 (October 1-November 20) New Work, Flying Hare Gallery, Grass Valley, California
2007 (December) Color Explosion, Flying Hare Gallery, Grass Valley, California
2006 (October) Western Nevada County Studio Tour, The Blue Studio, Grass Valley, California
2005 (May-July) Nebula, Mill Street Gallery, Grass Valley, California, Solo Exhibition
2005 (April) Artistic Movement, Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, California, Group Show
2004 (March) Two Women Painters, Flying Hare Gallery, Grass Valley, California, with Mary Bennett
2004 Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California, Group Show
Collections
Include private homes and businesses in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Montreal, Vancouver, Berlin, San Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, and Auckland, New Zealand.
Commissions
2004 - Full Spectrum, hanging canvas mural for private home, 5x8’, Nevada City, California.
Education
Vassar College, B.A. English
Lil McGill in the Long Barn, October 2007
Photo credits: Annabelle Schossig
Lil McGill Abstract Paintings c/o Resonance Fine Art
P.O. Box 83 Penn Valley, CA 95946
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