152 Main street, Nyack, NY 10960
845 358 1196
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Contact: Aurelija Cepulinskaite at art@something-unexpected.com
or call 845 709 1756
Jurgita Gerlikaite: Secret Worlds
On view March 15
– April 15, 2008
Jurgita Gerlikaite eagerly took over the
endless possibilities of the digital techniques. They let her continue and
develop the experiments she has been performing through the years within more
traditional graphic genre as woodcut and photogravure. All these experiments are
related to the human world of imagination, also the visual and cognitive
challenge of it. By the refined aesthetic means of the art piece we are
attracted or, better to say, seduced into the world, where beside the fantastic
surface basic human experiences of good and evil hides. Last but not least, the
artist tackles such conceptions and terms as sin, evil, light, darkness,
decline, resurrection, which we are forced to be related to, not only on the
aesthetic, but also on the existential plan.
It is claimed that the new digital techniques
either are too simple, too little physical or too shallow. Jurgita Gerlikaite’s
compositions prove the opposite. In her hands the digital process transforms
from means for playful experiment into a place for existential and metaphysical
contemplations not losing a thing of the absolutely visual excitation. By this
double grasp of aesthetic excitation and cognitive depth Jurgita Gerlikaite’s
graphical art pieces are extremely exciting and competent. (Tom Jørgensen,
Bachelor in Art History, art writer and author).
Jurgita Gerlikaite received BA in Art History and Theory in Vilnius Art Academy (Lithuania), studied printmaking and intaglio in Icelandic College of Arts & Crafts (Reykjavik, Iceland), Digital Imaging and Photopolymer film in The Printmakers’ Experimentarium with Henrik Bøegh in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Now she is studying for her MA degree in UNESCO Cultural Management and Cultural Policy in Vilnius Art Academy.
(image: Man and
Woman, 2006, Silkscreen, drawing ink, watercolour, 28,3' x 38,4')
Artist’s Reception:
Saturday, March 15, 6 – 8 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2 – 4 PM
Music and refreshments
Jurgita Gerlikaite. Man And Woman. 2006. Silkscreen, drawing ink, watercolor. 28,3" x 38,4"
