Lillian Hoover
Lillian Bayley Hoover’s paintings often explore the banal, awkward, overlooked, or imperfect elements of our material environment. In Hoover’s recent paintings, portions of the picture plane are torn away or excised, allowing flat passages to interrupt the landscape. This collision of visual languages and surfaces informs our experience of the spaces we inhabit and our interactions with what is considered "wild.” Recent solo exhibitions include Holding Space at Goya Contemporary (2018) and In This World at BlackRock Center for the Arts (2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Delaware Art Museum, American University Museum, Creative Alliance, School 33, and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan). Hoover received a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2020. She has also been awarded fellowships to attend residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, Monson Arts Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Other honors include the Bethesda Urban Partnership’s Trawick Award, multiple Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Bethesda Young Artist Painting Award, numerous selections as a semifinalist for Baltimore's Sondheim Prize, and a travel grant from Philadelphia’s Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Her work has appeared twice in New American Paintings and was selected for the cover of the 69th issue. Hoover earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently teaches drawing and painting courses at MICA and Towson University.
