Gilding the Lily Tomlin
Fe Gallery

“Lilly with a T” by Cuauhtemoc Q. Kish; silk and cotton, machine quilted; 2016.
Lily Tomlin was recently named to be the next recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. How appropriate, since she has been entertaining people as a comic, actress, writer and producer for decades. Plus, she was the voice of the fizzy-haired teacher on the animated Magic School Bus show, which is worth a lot of bonus points.
The septuagenarian is still at work in front of the camera in feature films and a Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, and Fe Gallery has chosen Tomlin as its muse for its current group show, The Lily Tomlin Experience. There are more than two-dozen artists who have gilded the Lily—both from Sacramento and out of state—including Susan Silvester, Madelyne Templeton, Skye Becker-Yamakawa, Rhonda Thomas-Urdang and Cuauhtemoc Q. Kish. There will be a video journal during the Second Saturday reception and a lot of love for Lily.