Černiūtė Aistė Gabrielė

Date of birth: 1978 04 24

Lives and creates in Vilnius.

Education:

2000 – 2002 VDA Master’s studies in painting

1996 – 2000 VDA Bachelor’s studies in painting

1990 – 1994 Just. Vienožinskis Children’s Art School

Activities:

Since 2002, artist of the Molėtai Regional Museum and Gallery “Akcija M”, organizes exhibitions and plein airs around the Molėtai district: Videniškiai, Balninkai, Inturkė, Skudutiškis, Girsteitiškis.

Personal exhibitions:

2010 “Colorists”, Old Town Artists’ Gallery/Workshop, Vilnius

2009 “Apparatus, Marijai”, St. John’s Street Gallery, Vilnius

2004 Painting exhibition at the Writers’ Club, Vilnius

2002. Watercolor exhibition, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius

2002 Painting and drawing exhibition, gallery “Akcija M”, Molėtai

Main group exhibitions:

2010 Christmas exhibition, Rügen auf Bergen regional museum, Rügen, Germany

2010 Christmas exhibition, Senamistis artists’ gallery/workshop, Vilnius

2010 Girsteitiškis plein air exhibition, “JuozasArt”, Europa City hotel, Vilnius

2010 Skudutiškis and Girsteitiškis plein air exhibition, gallery “Akcija M”, Molėtai

2009 Exhibition four(4), Baltrušaitis house, Moscow

2008 International art exhibition “Openly” at Alytus Cultural Communications Center

2006 International watercolor exhibition “Baltic Bridges” at M. Žilinskas art gallery in Kaunas,

Plenairs

2010 Birutės uostas, Palanga plein air

2010 Skudutiškis creative laboratory, artists’ symposium

2010 Molėtai-Nida international plein air

2010 Girsteitiškis painting plein air

2009 International painting plein air “Palanga 2009”, in Palanga

2009 International painting plein air “Nida expression”, in Nida.

2009 Creative laboratory. Artists’ symposium in Skudutiškis. (participant and curator)

2009 Painting plein air Inturkė (participant and curator)

2009 International painting plein air “Alaušas”, in Sudeikiai

2009 International Painting Plein Air in Birštonas

2007 International Painting Plein Air in Marijampolė

The distinctive features of Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė’s painting are the viscosity of the paint and the “feltness” of the strokes, figuration and theatrical/poetic touches. The artist promotes the concept of pastose painting: numerous layers of paint lie on top of each other, covering the previous ones or penetrating them like stained glass. As the eye moves from one corner of the canvas to the other, fragments of the primer appear in some places, imprimatur in others, and various lesouras or thick, buttery areas in others. In principle, this is the essence of the essence of each painting. The movement of the hand when laying, laying, and layering the layers of paint is also important. In some places, the wrist works, in others, the whole hand. Here and there, the strokes move in all directions (as if restless spirits are looking for a place), elsewhere – as if attacking armies are running in parallel… Moreover, there is no composition that would not do without an inclusive figure. Most often – a person or a plant. Figures jump out from the surface, towards the viewer or hide from him, gesticulate, try to expand the format, make contact or close deeply in themselves… As if in a Calderonian or Chekhovian theater, various mise-en-scenes are played out. These are cheerful, non-binding, or tragically instructive stories. Each work has a different mood and theme. All this changes as if by reciting different verses. Poetry is close to Baudelaire or Ponge – in a separate pictorial area that obeys the whole and forms it, symbolism and surrealism, magic and charlatanism, comedy and tragedy, celebration and everyday life are combined…

(Author of the text Vidas Poškus, art historian)

E-mail: aiste.gabriele@gmail.com