A Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, Hargrove concerns herself with ideas that frame our perceptions of the land and our sense of place and space. Iceland Series is the result of the artist’s month-long residency in 2017 in Northern Iceland. Hargrove’s intimate series of watercolor paintings evoke the varied landscape of Iceland, from tarmac to gravel, mossy grass to mud, sharp rocks to delicate mountain flowers, and cushioning heather. Hargrove’s spatially illusionistic representations offer synthesized versions of the natural landscape, where organic forms are tamed and organized in a way that highlights mankind’s ongoing subordination of nature.

Created to showcase the extraordinary talents of artists who live in the Northeast and Central Florida regions, Lightner Local is supported by the Benjamin and Jean Troemel Arts Foundation.