Virginija Juršienė
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Virginija Jasiūnaitė-Juršienė (born 16 July 1950 Biržai
) is a Lithuania
n ceramic artist
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, and graduated from M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in sculpture, in 1974. She studied from the Lithuanian Institute of Art. From 1976 to 1996, she was Vilnius Painting Factory artist, and member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association
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Creator of assemblages, objects, installations ("unstable" in 2001, "The book - Inversion" in 2003, "Class" in 2004)
She participated in the Global Applied Arts Competition Kanadzava 1999.
Her works are in the collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Čiurlionis, and Lithuanian National Museum.
Biržai
Biržai is a city in northern Lithuania. Biržai is famous for its reconstructed Biržai Castle manor, and the whole region is renowned for its many traditional-recipe beer breweries.-Names:...
) is a Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
n ceramic artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
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Life
She grew up in VilniusVilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, and graduated from M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in sculpture, in 1974. She studied from the Lithuanian Institute of Art. From 1976 to 1996, she was Vilnius Painting Factory artist, and member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association
Lithuanian Artists' Association
The Lithuanian Artists' Association is a creative voluntary artistic organization in Lithuania, uniting professional painters and artists. It is the official association for artists in the country...
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Works
Ceramic Works ("Aliens" in 1986, "Delay" in 1987, Meadow town "in 1996," Colourful portrait of 2004, "Women of nowhere" in 2005) post-modern in direction, characterized by conceptuality, experimentation.Creator of assemblages, objects, installations ("unstable" in 2001, "The book - Inversion" in 2003, "Class" in 2004)
She participated in the Global Applied Arts Competition Kanadzava 1999.
Her works are in the collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Čiurlionis, and Lithuanian National Museum.
Solo exhibitions
- 1981 creative exhibition gallery in Erfurt, Germany
- Creative Exhibition 1992 "ark", Vilnius
- 1992 Creative Exhibition Hall Art Gallery, Kedainiai
- 1993 Creative Exhibition Gallery of Medals, Vilnius
- 1996 Exhibition-figure pottery "Arka" gallery, Vilnius
External links
- "Virginija Juršienė" Lithuanian Wikipedia
- "Keramika", DEKORATYVINĖ VAZA - GELTONA