LILY'S COLLECTION
LILY ANONYMOUS
Lily Anonymous was born and reared in a small town in 1946, surrounded by corn fields in Indiana. Graduating
from Purdue University, she taught art from elementary to college level. However, accidents changed her
ability to be physical in her drawing and painting. After leaving Purdue, she was under the tutelage of Professor Joseph Tamargo at
Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus, who inspired her. She learned to look at a photograph, translate
the images she saw on the street and capture them in her own frame. Dyslexia was evident in her prints
and she was taught to compensate for her field-of-vision.
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With a single exposure of her camera’s eye, the frame is printed to a full frame, so that she must own each corner of the photograph. Sometimes her photos appear to have many layers of texture that quite simply can be manipulated in one program or another, however, she challenges herself to find it and only document what is there.
EXHIBITIONS
League of Innovation, Tower Theater
Instituto Chileno de Cultura Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile 2001
Universidad del Pacifico,Santiago, Chile (2) 2003, 2004
Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL, (5)
“Women Photographing Women,” Tower Theater, Miami Florida
Center Gallery Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus (6) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Oscar Thomas 9TH ,10th , 11th, 12th, 13th Memorial People’s Art Exhibition, Amadiozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Liberty City, FL 2009, 2010, 2011,2012.
Kuumba Annual Kwanzaa Art Exhibition, Amadiozi Gallery African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Liberty City, FL 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013
“Reflections of Africa,” Kuumba Artists, M.A.R.C. Bldg., FIU South Campus, Miami , FL 2010
Black History Month Exhibition, FAU/BC Building, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2010
Art Basel 2010, The Kuumba Artists Collective of South Florida, “African Roots/African Fruits: New and Recent Works by Florida African World Artists” in Wynwood, Art Space, 2085-B, NW 2 Avenue, Artlab33.
Black HistoryMonth Exhibitiion 2011, 2013
FMoPA Members Show, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
FMoPA International Show, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL 2017
FMoPA Forever Young Exhibition, Tampa 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
AWARDS
Photographer’s Forum “Best of College Photography 2003,” Honorable Mention
Metromorphosis Literary Publication, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus (2)
Miami Dade Magazine
Tampa Bay Times, Art Critic Lennie Bennett, 11/13/2015
FMoPA (Sign on Building) Digital Photograph 3 months June-July-August 2018
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
University of Helsinki, Teacher Education Training School , Helsinki, Finland, ..a series “On Reading”, 15