Dzina Jasiuniene

Born in 1974 in Lithuania.

If there was a need to describe my creation in one sentence, I would say that it is kind of combination of textile and painting. Though I have completed scilicet textile studies, painting is that area, which has always attracted me in particular. And as a textile worker, I have always admired at the ethnographic heritage of different nations, handmade fabrics, carpets and embroideries. I passionately collect books about the textile of the world and each time I open them I start feeling an inspiration to create something new. Except traditional textile crafts, which cannot be dissociated from precision and accuracy, I am also interested in modern textile very much, which ingeniously combines traditions with up-to-date technologies. In painting's area I cannot but marvel at impressionists and expressionists, their bright colours and bristling dabs. All this is reflected in my oeuvre, in which act a brush and a needle as well as texture and facture play with each other.
For my painting I use patterned fabrics designed for housewares, which after being stretched on the stretcher fully lose their initial daily purpose and become independent pieces of art. As distinct from painting on even surface (for ex...

Textile MA, graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Personal exibitions

2016 THE FLYING CARPETS. The Panevėžys Civic Art Gallery, Panevėžys.
2015 Exhibition of paintings. DOMUS GALLERY,Vilnius
2015 Exhibition of paintings. Vilnius city municipality.
2015 Exhibition of paintings. National Audit Office of the LR, Vilnius
2014 Exhibition of paintings. Museum „Sėla“. Biržai
2014 GOLDEN MEAN. VAA textile art gallery ARTIFEX. Vilnius
2013 UPTURN. Gallery „Mažoji galerija“. Druskininkai
2013 ABRAKADABRA. Gallery "Meno nisa". Vilnius.
2013 EVOLUTION. Family clinic "Gera pradzia". Vilnius.
2013 ABRAKADABRA. Library-community house. Giruliai.
2013 ABRAKADABRA. Gallery "Ramybe". Palanga.
2008 One work exibition organized by Society of Lithuanian Artists.
2008 Ceramics. Gallery „Meno niša“. Vilnius
2007 Decorations. Gallery „Meno niša“. Vilnius

Group exibitions

2017 THE OTHER ART FAIR. Brooklyn Expo Center, New York.
2016 THE VII BIENNIAL OF LITHUANIAN TEXTILE ART „Body And Soul“. Gallery „Arka“, Vilnius.
2015 TEXTILE EXHIBITION “THE OLD AND THE NEW”. Janina Marks Museum-Gallery, Kėdainiai
2014 THE VI BIENNIAL OF LITHUANIAN TEXTILE ART „Tekstilė X“. Gallery „Arka“, Vilnius.
2014 Art for Home. DOMUS GALERIJA, Vilnius.
2013 MotherDays. Gallery ARTIFEX, Vilnius
2013 F...