Dace Lapina

Born in Riga, Latvia, Northern Europe.
About Me. I have consistently focused on still life genre, where, I believe I can best express myself,making a person look more carefully as if into an instant of stopped time. Such, where in a unified harmony, there exists light, space , object.
I enjoy painting commonplace articles inspiring them with an air of perpetual value through my artistic vision. Painting like I do is time-consuming. It is a luxury I afford while refusing myself many other pastimes. I need time even at moments when I seem idle, but that is probably when the ideas are conceived. It is an artist’s life that gets mixed up with everything else.
I paint with the conviction that in today’s hectic and rationalized world the art is so much needed to make and teach people stop and get engrossed. Too much nowadays gets declaratively simplified, because people in a hurry continuously get overwhelmed with new information. Thinking is getting more and more primitive as there is no time to think over anything more complex. Therefore, also I am bored with and not attracted to contemporary conceptual art, witch often serves as a tremendous breakthrough the elementary truth that is a conventional wisdom for any thoughtful p...

Latvian Academy of Art
Janis Rozentals Secondary Art school

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020.11.09. - 2020.17.10. -international contest exhibition "Artefact # fifthcivilization" in gallery Museum LV and cultural centre GrataJJ
2019.15.11. -2020. 05.01. - Autumn exhibition in the Gallery of The Artists' Union of Latvia
2018.18.06 .-2018.17.07. -solo exhibition Gallery "Jekabs", Old Riga
2017.20.12 .-2018.22.01. -group exhibition in "Painting of the year" Riga
2016. - group exhibition 'Painting of the year" Riga
2015. - group exhibition "Painting of the year " Riga
2014 - solo exhibition Gallery „Jēkabs”, Riga
2013 - solo exhibition Riga Art Space Intro hall
2011 - solo exhibition Latvian National Museum of Art
2009 - solo exhibition Exhibition hall of Jurmala
2005 - solo exhibition Gallery „Bonhans”
2005 - solo exhibition Gallery „Bonhans”
2000 - solo exhibition Gallery „Rīgas Galerija”
1996 - solo exhibition Gallery „Daugava”
1996 - solo exhibition Gallery „ Manss” ,Jekabpils
1995 -solo exhibition in Praga in Latvia’s Embassy, Praga,Czekia
1995 - Exhibition in Valmiera’s city Art Hall
1994 - Gallery „Centrs”
1993 - Gallery „Rigas Galerija’
1990 - Gallery „Ars Longa”
1988 - Exhibition in „Home of ...