Saule Piktys

Saule Piktys currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. She grew up and was born in Lithuania, where she received her master's in architecture and fine art from Vilnius Academy of Art in 1989.

A mom and a wife and a grandmother, gradually from occasional artist to a full-time studio artist, exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including in 2011 Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery, City of Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Venice Art Walk, work on paper and work on linen in M.K. Ciurlionio National Museum of Art Kaunas and Kunstkamera Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2010 project : Still Twombly House - Ephemeral Museum, Alicia Blue Gallery, Portland, Oregon, The Art of Summer, OCCCA, Crussell Fine Arts Santa Ana, California, UGALLERY The Affordable Art Fair New York, Artists Haven Gallery Ft Lauderdale, Florida, FADA: LA Convention Center, Sister Cities project, Los Angeles, Open Show-Gallery 825 Juried by Apsara DiQuinzio, Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles, in 2010-2009 her work has been shown at Bergamot Station Art Center, James Gray Gallery, Verve Gallery, part of the 2008 LACMA Muse Miracle Mile Art Walk, and at the LACMA Art Rental & Sales Gallery. In 2007 a retrospective exhibition, in M.K. Ciurlionio National Museum of Art Kaunas, Lithuania. A Community of Angels Project in 2001. Her work is in public and private collections, featured in books and magazines.

In 1989, six months after graduation, she chose to stay in Los Angeles and began an extensive career in art production that has ranged from textile to interior design and painting. she worked as a background artist for the animation, scenic, and graphic departments for nearly all of the major studios, including CBS, FOX, NBC, Paramount, Sony, and WB Productions and ABC Disney.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I study the outside world as it shifts forms and changes shapes. I am conscious that there are things I see that I want to remember and the camera hasn't captured it for me in that way. I look for a flash of memory in my brain, a moment of insight, keeping in mind the idea behind the feeling I felt. I start with the structure of the painting. I find it appealing to let the bones show through in a way that gives the viewer a clue to the process that's taking place. I pull color  from the depths of my passion, building up a web of associations and meanings. When painting, I never finish what I set out to do; something else happens and I like that adventure.

As time has passed, I've become more interested in defining for myself what I want from observation, with a loose though accurate touch. My conscious force and interest in non-centrality, in co-existence of elements of non-belonging, that holds the painting together with tension. I want each part of the painting to be important, creating a non-linear diversity; I don't want a logical reading in my painting. I want a possibility of the unpredictable. I would like people to experience a sense of stimulation and confrontation, to feel full of life, as they make their own meaning and interpretation of the painting.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Art Directors Guild LOCAL 800.

EDUCATION

2000-1998 Academy of Entertainment and Technology, Santa Monica, CA Major: New Media

1989-1982 Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania Masters in Arts & Architecture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
Forum, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA

2012
CA' DEL SOLE, N. Hollywood, CA
LAWAA, Commemorative Exhibition, Balzekas Museum, Chicago, IL
The Uncurated, Prohibition Gallery, Culver City, CA
City Hall Bridge Gallery - Colors, Colors! 201 N. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 
Still Point Art Gallery, The Abstraction Attraction, 193 Hillside Road, Brunswick, ME

2011
DCA Slide registry: 2011 New Membership Exhibitions, Municipal Art Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA
LAMAG – Open Call 2011, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA

2010
Still, Twombly House: Ephemeral Museum, Alicia Blue Gallery, Portland, Oregon
The Art of Summer, OCCCA, Crussell Fine Arts, Santa Ana, CA
UGALLERY The Affordable Art Fair , New York, NY
Artists Haven Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL
FADA: LA Convention Center, Sister Cities, Los Angeles, CA
James Gray Gallery , Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA

2009
Open Show-Gallery 825, Juried by Apsara DiQuinzio, Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sticks and Stones, Fort Wayne, IN
Cantoni, W. Hollywood, CA
Woman!, Gallery 800, Lankershim Arts center, N. Hollywood, CA
James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA

2008
The Heart Touch Project II, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
At LACMA Art Rental & Sales Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Miniworx for ADG Union, Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
50 Years Celebration, Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007
Art Fair, LA Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA

2006
Visual Jam Session, ADG Art Show, Studio City, CA

2004
The International Exhibition dedicated to watercolorists Ignas Budrys, Plunge, Lithuania

2002
Interactions, Lithuanian Museum of Art, Lamont, IL
Thoughts, The John G. Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN

2001
A Community of Angels Project, California Plaza, Los Angeles CA
John C. Santistevan Memorial Scholarship, Creative Arts Center Gallery, Burbank, CA
American Artist-Dedicated to Ciurlionis, The Embassy of Lithuania, Washington DC

2000
Ciurlionis 125, Lithuanian Museum of Art, Lamont, IL
Agenda, Ojai Valley Gallery, Ojai, CA
Art in the Park Festival, Ojai Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA

SELECTED INVITATIONAL ART AUCTIONS & BENEFITS

2010 Baltic Gala, Washington, DC
2010 Balts in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Franklin's Gala & Auction Los Angeles, CA
2009 Love, Truyoga, Santa Monica, CA

2008 The Heart Touch Project II, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Franklin's Gala & Auction Los Angeles, CA

2007 The Heart Touch Project I, Verve Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003 Savor, Inside Out Community Arts, Venice, CA 

2001  Angels Project Auction,  Los Angeles, CA