Donata Minderytė Lithuanian, b. 1991
Good Evening, America, 2023
drobė, aliejus / oil on canvas
100 x 150 x 2 cm
39 ½ x 59 x 1 in
39 ½ x 59 x 1 in
€ 3,500.00
This piece was a continuation of a series of paintings based on home videos from the summer of 2012, when I was working as a dishwasher in an upscale harbour club in the New York city suburbs. Paintings from that period emphasise the structure of the workwear as a sort of shell. The suit, especially the angular shoulders of the jacket, later became a frequently used motif in my work. A particular garment can help actors to get into their roles, and it's not by chance that models in the paintings are dressed in oversized coloured jackets, as if they are playing a role in the version of reality I am creating.
Donata Minderytė (b. 1991, Lithuania) is an artist currently living and working in Vilnius. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, obtaining an MA in 2016. Using the concept of visual translation, Minderytė analyzes significant changes in an image as it is transferred from one medium to another. Donata Minderytė has held solo exhibitions at the Vartai Gallery and Gallery Meno Niša in Vilnius and participated in multiple group shows in Lithuania, Austria and the UK. She is also enrolled in an Art PhD programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her works have been included in various museum collections, such as Kiasma (Helsinki), MOCAK (Kraków), the Noewe Foundation (Vilnius), and Mo Museum (Vilnius).
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