Gabrielė Šermukšnytė | Širdelė, 2025 | Acrylic on canvas, 18x24

Signed on reverse. Stretched on stretchers, not framed.

Exhibitions:
Gabrielė Šermukšnytė solo exhibition “Artificial Skin”, December 4, 2025 – January 4, 2026, TUMO Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

GABRIELĖ ŠERMUKŠNYTĖ
b. 1990, Lithuania

Gabrielė Šermukšnytė earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 2016. She has held four solo exhibitions in Lithuania and has participated in more than a dozen group exhibitions in Lithuania, India, the Netherlands, Poland, and Georgia, as well as plein-air workshops in Lithuania and Georgia.

Gabrielė Šermukšnytė is a representative of the young generation of figurative painting, recognized for her distinctive artistic style. The artist explores the inverted sides of pop culture, offering ironic commentary on the decadence of contemporary society and presenting its merciless reflection.

In Gabrielė’s work, society’s wounds are presented with the softness of velvet—probing painful spots through a sweetened painterly rhetoric. A muted palette of pink and brown tones, soft brushstrokes that appear and disappear, and meticulous attention to detail have already become signature features of her work.

The concept of beauty in Gabrielė’s art takes on different meanings and purposes. In deliberately excessive paintings, beauty is approached with irony, creating a lush projection of mass culture and returning it back to society. The viewer is drawn into a continuous game—a call to solve riddles and guess what the cards have revealed this time.