Gabriele Sermuksnyte

Gabrielė Šermukšnytė (b. 1990) has gained BA and MA in Painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Became a member of Lithuanian Artists’ Association in 2016. Has presented several personal exhibitions, participated in more than ten group exhibitions in Lithuania, India, The Netherlands, and in plein-airs in Lithuania.

Gabrielė Šermukšnytė is a youngest generation figurative painter with a recognizable style. The artist explores the wrong sides of the pop culture, ironically criticizes decadence of contemporary society and shows its merciless reflection.

In Gabrielė’s creative work, wounds of the society are presented with the softness of the velvet, picking the sores with sweetened painting rhetoric. Her creative style is defined by a reddish and brownish color palette, vanishing and emerging brush-stroke, scrupulous attention to the details.

The author uses the symbol of a mirror to unravel the seams of the wrong side. The mirror is turned in front of the self-destructive world’s face, lifted in front of the artist and the viewer, rotated between reality and illusion. Theme of reflection has appeared in Gabrielė’s personal exhibitions The Bird Will Fly Out Soon (2015), Reflection (2014), Two Sides of the Mirror (2014). This ...

2009-2013 Vilnius Academy of Art
2013-2015 Vilnius Academy of Art