Velvet Rain
Canvas, oil, wire, sand, relief paste
28 × 45 x 15 cm
Year of creation: 2022–2025
The artwork consists of two parts. In the main part, we see a sleeping figure emerging from the canvas, awakening from dreams through the rain. The figure protrudes forward from the surface like a sculptural painting or relief, extending 15 cm outward. About 10 cm away from the figure, a large green bud is displayed as a separate but conceptually connected element. One may sense that the figure awakens due to the bud’s attempt to blossom. The bud is created from canvas, wire, and oil paint.
Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė CV
Aiste Gabriele Cerniute
Born on April 24, 1978, in Kaunas
Education
1983–1992 studied music at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius
1992–1996 studied at J. Vienožinskis Children’s Art School and Šeškinė Secondary School
1996–2000 Bachelor’s degree in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts
2000–2002 Master’s degree in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (supervisor – Prof. R. P. Vaitiekūnas)
Creative Style:
In 2008, a significant shift occurred in Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė’s artistic practice—she began to systematically explore relief and sculptural painting, expanding the boundaries of traditional painting. Her work places strong emphasis on color and the character of textures. While oil paint and canvas remain her primary media, she also incorporates unconventional materials such as wire, sand, and relief pastes, which give the surface a tangible structure and plastic tension, creating an alternative reality.
While experimenting, the artist remains committed to the discipline of professional painting, adhering as much as possible to technological principles and subtly balancing between classical painting and mixed media. Her work is narrative in nature—her canvases develop everyday stories into which dream states or a sense of otherworldliness seem to intrude. The artist’s works function like painterly poems. They recite lyrically and declaim visually. A. G. Černiūtė’s canvases are high reliefs that evolve into three-dimensional objects, where each brushstroke exists and acts as a poetic figure.
The artist lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Professional Recognition
2015 – Granted the status of Art Creator by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania
Membership
LATGA Association
Professional Activity
Since 2002, she has worked at the Molėtai Regional Museum as an exhibition curator at the Molėtai Art Gallery.
Awards
2022 – Molėtai District Municipality Cultural Worker of the Year Award
2021 – ArtVilnius’21 TOP 7 Best Galleries with Molėtai Art Gallery (artists: Aistė Gabrielė Černiūtė, Irma Balakauskaitė, Vidas Poškus)
2018 – Kaunas City Municipality Silver Centennial Medal “For Merits to Kaunas”
2018 – Molėtai District Municipality Award “For Cultural Contributions to the City of Molėtai”
In Cultural Press
2013 – Artwork “Red Even Black” featured on the cover of Literature and Art
Interview (with English subtitles)
2014 – Exhibition “Cherry Pit” at Pamėnkalnis Gallery, Vilnius
Tapytojos Aistės Černiūtės paroda ”Vyšnios kauliukas” Pamėnkalnio galerijoje (Vilnius) 2014 08 13 (youtube.com)
Plein Airs
2024 – Lithuanian painters’ plein air in Switzerland, at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Swiss Confederation
Residencies in Paris
2015 – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2016 – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2018 – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Grant
2025 – Individual Cultural and Art Grant in the field of visual arts awarded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
Solo Exhibitions
2025 – “The End of the Night”, VAA exhibition space “Kreatoriumas/Art Kilns”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2025 – “The End of the Night is a Flower”, VVJ Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 – “Flowers of Scripture”, Brukna Manor, Latvia
2022 – “Flowers of Scripture”, Videniškiai Monastery Museum, Molėtai district
2022 – “Paint-People”, “Fojė” Gallery, Trakai, Lithuania
2022 – “Velvet Rain”, “Godo” Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 – “Four Rooms” (with Jurga Šarapova, Gitenis Umbrasas, Vidas Poškus), “Nile Gallery”, Cairo, Egypt
2020 – “Everything Is Not as It Seems”, Ramybė Gallery, Palanga, Lithuania