Its been noted that Lillia Frantin’s paintings are uniquely her own and yet keep

within a Modernist tradition that places emotional response at the center of art.

For her, the pleasures of everyday life are her subject, creating work that seems

to vibrate with the physicality of ‘being there”- with her, as she paints. They feel

alive, improvisational, with an unexpected beauty that mixes the raw with the

tender, the feminine with the masculine. Not quite realism, not quite Fauvist, her

paintings are above all romantic, with an almost childlike quality that is fresh and

honest, a deeply personal visual language that doesn’t describe, but suggests.

While her frequent theme is called ‘the still-life’, with her vibrant brushwork,

surface and line, they never really are. Always filled with movement, space, light

and a sense of joy, for Lillia the still-life is more than flowers and fruit and colorful

cloth. Set before a window opening to an expansive sky filled with billowing

clouds and an ever-changing sea, the work invites you to breathe in and imagine.

And simply, enjoy.

Lillia received her Masters from Pratt Institute in 1968 and was professor of

Painting and Modern Art History while exhibiting professionally in New York,

California, New Mexico and the Cape. Her work is in numerous collections and her

recognitions include many awards and residencies, with one person shows in

London, Provence, Barcelona, Santa Fe, Boston, Palm Desert CA and at the Wally

Findlay Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach.