Paulius Juška "Rippled water" Painting

Leading mid-career Lithuanian artist Paulius Juška. Born 1975 in Vilnius. Graduated from Vilnius Art Academy in 1997, PhD. His artworks are owned by private collectors in Lithuania and abroad. Participant of group and solo exhibitions from 1996. Paulius: "Emerging image in the painting depends on the sight, gestures, brush strokes on canvas. This process inspires me. Not the thing itself interests me the most (for example: tree, pear, tree bark) but its form, its relation with the space, its composition relationship with environment. I want my works, in spite of the usual objecthood, to transform in an abstract reality, were normal world shapes itself into something else. It is not so easy to paint in these modern days: you are surrounded by the latest technology, while you work with almost the same materials that the artists had a hundred years ago. Painting as an art is no longer at a such a big interest. The artist's status in society is different as it was the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical era. For many people it seems to be the past, a hobby that does not require nor daily work, nor mastery. Almost everyone can be called an artist. There is no more objective artistic criteria. They are created, recreated, customized. I still paint. I feel like a kid who built one castle of sand and rushes to build one more, perhaps better." Links: Modern Art Center Collection, Group exhibitions 2013, 2014, 2015 – Portrait Exhibitions, Oldtown artists gallery. 2014 - Contemporary Lithuanian painting, Zagreb Artists' Union Gallery. 2010 - International exhibition of drawings, Artists' House, Moscow. 2010 - Contemporary Lithuanian painting, the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main. 2010 - Lithuanian Artists' Workshop in southern France da RBU exhibition, the Lithuanian Embassy in Paris. 2010 - Landscape mimicry and camouflage, Gallery Arka, Vilnius. 2009 - Abstraction and Expressionism: Two Traditions of Vilnius Painting 1960–2009. Gallery Arka, Vilnius. 2009 - Contemporary Lithuanian Art, LITEXPO Exhibition Hall, Vilnius. 2007 – Lithuanian time, LDM Radvilų palace, Vilnius. 2004 – XII Vilnius Painting Triennial “Seven truths of painting”, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius. 2000 - "Tradition and Future", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. Solo Exhibitions 2013 - "The body and the Earth“, Panevežys Drama Theatre. 2013 - "The body and the Earth," Gallery Academy, Vilnius. 2012 - "On the one side“, A.Mončio House - Museum, Palanga. 2011 – Paintings and drawings exhibition, Kaunas Art School, Kaunas. 2008 - "The two sides“, Gallery Academy, Vilnius. 2007 - "Underground stories“, Old Town Gallery, Vilnius. 2007 - "Two Sides", Baroti gallery, Klaipėda. 2005 - Paintings and drawings exhibition, Gallery Academy, Vilnius. 2004 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Gallery Academy, Vilnius. 2003 - Exhibition of paintings, Jurbarkas exhibition hall, Jurbarkas. 2003 - Exhibition of paintings, Baroti gallery, Klaipėda. 2002 - "Visions", Lietuvos aidas Gallery, Vilnius. 1999 - Exhibition of drawings, Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius. 1996 - Drawing exhibition, Gallery Akademija, Vilnius. Works in public spaces 2014 - The altar painting - Pope John Paul II in Kaunas Cathedral, Kaunas. 2014 - The altar painting - St.Mary in Bukaučiškio church, Alytus district, Lithuania.