Artworks by Elena Urbaitytė presented in LIDF collection
Early works of Elena Urbaitytė were oils which she exhibited in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Paintings dated in the early 60s were influenced by American Abstract Expressionists William de Koonnig, Mark Rothko, and others. In these works Elena Urbaitytė stressed the importance of colour and light in her compositions that appeared architectural in concept and execution.
Since her studies in Europe, attention of Elena Urbaitytė was drawn to the art and theory of Paul Cezanne and his followers as well as Russian Constructivists. In the 70s, geometric shapes and parts of the human body were incorporated into architectural compositions m her paintings which created vibrant textured shapes evoking tension pictorially and emotionally.
The year of 1979 marked the beginning of her career as a sculptor. These constructions consisted in the interrelationship of aluminium planes, wood panels, flourescent and neon lights. The angular, illuminated flat cut-outs indicated the artist's emotional involvement with the space age technological advances of the time, producing both "chilling aesthetic ambiguities and multi-dimensional effects."
