Oil Canvas 28"x22" © 2010 Lili Bernard
Original & Gicleés Available for Purchase

As a teen I was fascinated with Judy Garland to the point of having several 8x10 glossy portraits of her pinned on the wall above my bed. In the summer of my sweet sixteen, after having watched the Wizard of Oz and Lady Sings the Blues on TV, I began to reflect upon the similarities between the two divas, Judy Garland and Billlie Holiday. Read more

Written, directed, produced, filmed and edited by LILI BERNARD, this is a video abstract of LILI BERNARD'S multimedia work-in-progress entitled, CEIBA DE CUBA. In an onstage fusion of her paintings, poetry, playwriting, filmmaking and performance, LILI BERNARD weaves real-life stories and fiction to tell the story of her Afro-Amerindian Cuban ancestors and of life in her native Cuba. Read more

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Oil Canvas 48"x30" © 2007 Lili Bernard
Original & Gicleés Available for Purchase

My father’s father, José Rodríguez Figueroa, was a published author, poet, oil painter, multi-linguist, evangelical minister and Mambi (rebel Cuban soldier, during Cuba’s War of Independence from Spain). His publications are housed in Cuba’s national libraries. The text of the journal my grandfather is holding in this painting are excerpts of his actual writings. Read more

To the left is the mixed-media, "A La Memoria de Los Fusilados" (a memoriam to those executed by Che Guevara). To the right is a detail of the related large oil painting called, "Che Chango Rendezvous en La Habana 2013." Both of these works of mine coincide with the spoken word and performance art in part of Ceiba de Cuba. Read more

Oil on Canvas 48"x30"
© 2007 Lili Bernard
Original & Gicleés Available

I based this painting on a famous poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) called "Der Erlkönig." Goethe was a German poet, novelist, dramatist, scientist, theorist and painter. One of his well-known plays is "Faust." Goethe prided himself most for his scientific accomplishments, particularly with regard to his Theory of Colour. Read more