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LILY K.

Studio Artist
Omaha

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EVENTS

NEBRASKA ARTS COUNCIL SOLO SHOW

December 18, 2020 - February 19, 2021

My first ever solo show, with a focus on my lovely ceramic beetles, will be taking place at the Nebraska Arts Council building in downtown Omaha this Winter! More details to follow.

FIRST FRIDAY

February 7 - 29, 2020

Noyes Gallery First Friday Opening and Gallery Show (Round 2!)

RAW INSPIRE-  OMAHA

SOKOL AUDITORIUM 
6:30-11:00 PM
May 22, 2019

"RAW spotlights independent talent in visual art, film, fashion & accessories design, music, performance art, beauty, crafts, tech, and photography.

RAW is a fun and alternative way for creatives to showcase both to their local community and the world at large. We are not your average art show. We are loud, colorful, creative, and all about our artists. We are RAW."

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This show is 18+

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FIRST FRIDAY OPENING

Feb. 1 - Feb. 28, 2019

Works from Lily Roberts, Paige Ernst, Cole Beebe, Sharon Cole and more artists will be fetured at the Noyes Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska

PERCEIVE PRESERVE - SENIOR EXHIBIT

Nov. 15, 2018- Jan. 10, 2019

Senior gallery exhibit featuring Lily Roberts and Ethan Wick, and their collection of works made at Wayne State College

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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"

Vincent Van Gogh

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Written Analysis

Scarabee

Oil

22 x 26

2018

The design and concept of this oil painting, Scarabee, is based off of a modern, minimalistic influence with ties to the impressionist era. By using the elements and principles of design, and research of scientific illustration and the insect itself, this painting is successful in its balance, color, line, shape, space, value and texture.

Scarabee is a rectangularly-framed painting containing a focal point made of several organic and colorful shapes in the top left-hand corner. The figure extends diagonally to the bottom right corner, which guides the viewers eyes across the whole image, giving it strength in direction. The extended figure then also breaks the entire image into thirds, which balances the painting.  The organic shapes in the top left corner have three larger orange shapes which are formed into a triangle, breaking up the very busy space of cool blues and greens and giving the space the strength of thirds. This repetition of the power or three is not only successful in this piece but is know to be strong in guiding the eye and breaking up space.

 The orange forms are also warm and pull forward against the contrasting blue, giving the figure shape and form helping to allude that the figure is coming out into the viewer’s space. There is even more success in pulling the figure forward because the image is separated somewhat down the middle by a warm-yellow, rounded form on the left side. This yellow form  contrasts the soft grey background, which is pushing back to the furthest layer, giving the figure of organic shapes the illusion of coming from the grey background into the warm-yellow foreground.

The piece is made of three major areas, the warm-yellow organic shape, the busy organic figure and the soft grey background. By having the figure sandwiched in-between,  and at the point of the three shapes, gives the viewer a place to rest their eyes, which ultimately make the painting successful by keeping the viewer interested while not overwhelming them. Another successful way that the viewer is continually interested is by allowing their eye to follow not only the forms but the colors. The orange on the top left corner, contrasted by the bright blue, is then carried into the long branch-like forms diagonally across the paining, which contrasts the black and cool colors around it. The orange also acts as a highlight, giving the branch-shapes volume and a cylinder form. Form and volume are given to the piece with the element of shadows and gradients under the main figure with darker and cooler colors, balancing the yellow and breaking it up.

The painting as a whole has a strong painterly aspect, with large brush strokes and not fully blended color, mimicking an impressionist painting. The lack of a background or environment adds to the minimalistic, or modern approach, which gives the piece and interesting and unique quality.

There are only a few things that I would consider going in and fixing, one of those would be cleaning the lines across the forms and making them sharper and less fuzzy. I would also go in and darken some of the shadows to really push the form. But overall I feel this piece is extremely strong in its basic elements and principles including line, color, shape, repetition and form.   

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ARTIST STATEMENT

 Lily K. Roberts

This body of work explores my personal connections to the natural world and allows me to experiment in several different media. Of my most recent works, the majority focus on the beetle. Through my research, I discovered the beetle can symbolize a new beginning; as well as, being well-grounded in your spirit and home-life. I see this specific insect as a metaphor in my personal life. This body of work focuses on my perspective outward, alongside diving inward to my self-perception.

            This strong interest in nature and wildlife has been fostered since childhood. Through my experiences studying and caring for all types of animals and insects at a zoo, I developed an empathy for the natural world, and the living things within it. Ornithologist John James Audubon, and Post-impressionist artists Vincent Van Gogh, and Claude Monet, inspire me to connect my artwork to my environment. In my creative practice, I magnify those creatures otherwise overlooked, primarily insects, to expose their true, microscopic complexity. I do this through the use of bright, vivid colors, and larger-than-life forms. 

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