Inge Gecas
I am a visual artist, originally from Vilnius, Lithuania, living and working in NYC.
I graduated from Vilnius Academy of Art in my hometown of Vilnius, Lithuania, where I had two personal exhibits showing my oil and acrylic paintings and mixed media works on paper. Since moving to New York, I’ve studied and worked with print design and digital photography for about 15 years before making the decision to focus solely on my art.
My main focus is deep empathy with nature and all its beings. Working from a background in painting, architecture, graphic design and digital photography I can allow myself a myriad of materials, and embrace non-traditional techniques. I use acrylic, color pigments and inks, but also botanical materials dried plants, whatever I feel for the particular piece that help me to create an intimate moment, a narrative, an emotion, to invite viewers to feel nature’s patterns, forms and textures. I try to convey spirituality in my art and put a lot of information about it in my works.
I began studying art at the age of 11. The art school at my native Vilnius had an abundance of art resources available for our use and it was a second home to me. We spent our summers in sleep away camps spending days practicing art outside. I loved doing stuff with my hands – whether working with clay in sculpture or ceramics classes, drawing on the sidewalks of the old town, or making pen-and-ink drawings of roots and leaves in the park. Attention to detail was considered very important.
In college I studied architecture. Though it wasn’t my first choice at the time, I now appreciate the skills those studies gave me: three-dimensional composition, light, color theory, perception of objects, architectural spaces. After the college, I painted for about 10 years and showed my work in a few personal exhibitions in Vilnius. Soon after I became interested in learning new media and took a chance to move to New York to learn and work in print graphic design and photography. All my studies and practices have had a great influence on what I am today as an artist. I am grateful to have this variety of tools and techniques at my disposal and to be able to express my ideas using any media I choose for the project.
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