Lilian Fernandez

Lilian Fernandez, was born in Cuba she is currently living in Miami, FL."Painting for me is a search and an exploration full of risks and obstacles where the practice of faith and certainty is created spontaneously, with intuition and its reaffirmed in the presence of creation, when it emerges from the chaos of a newly created world from which I am part of for a while and gives me the chance to escape and start all over again. During Art Basel Miami Beach last year, Lilian Fernandez was crestfallen that none of her abstract paintings was on display at any of the fairs' events or exhibits.To cope with her depression, she ritualistically ripped one of her canvases, The Flowers That My Mother Painted, into 38 envelope-size sections, wrote the title of the work and her information on the back of them, and handed them out to strangers at the Miami Beach Convention Center, hoping her luck would change."I did it as a cleansing, sending the work out into the world sort of like a message in a bottle that people toss into the ocean, dreaming of a response in the future," the Cuban artist said. "My hope was that this year I would have the opportunity to exhibit my work during the fair and that the people I gave the pi...

Studies:Classical Ballet Vocational School of ArtCuba Miami Exhibits: GIL Art Gallery, Miami, FLWynwood Art Distrit2006Programming Oriented to ObjectsGIL Art Gallery, Miami,FL2007Bridge ART Fair, Miami Beach, FL2007Congruent Allusions, Agora Gallery, New York2008,