An exploration of perception
Krista Augius’s multidisciplinary practice explores perception as a dynamic and transformative experience. Working across painting, sculptural form, color and sound, she creates works that shift between the physical and the perceptual, inviting the viewer to reconsider how we experience space, dimension, movement and connection.
Her paintings move between expansive visual fields and intricate microcosms, while her Circle Series uses repetition, convergence and optical movement to create an experience of dimensionality and centering. In Dispersal Studies, dimensional wood forms engage color, light and sound, functioning simultaneously as sculptural works and acoustic diffusers.
Across these bodies of work, Augius is interested in the moment when perception changes: when a surface becomes dimensional, the individual becomes part of a larger whole, or what appears familiar reveals another world upon closer encounter.
Informed by a background in biology, clinical practice, and embodied disciplines, Augius approaches painting as a rigorous investigation with an expressive gesture. Drawing from an intricate understanding of anatomy, neuroscience, and perceptual systems, her work reflects a deep engagement with how internal states are held, regulated, and experienced over time. Each body of work unfolds in intentionally finite phases, preserving the integrity and scarcity of the inquiry.
Augius has exhibited internationally, including presentations at the LA Art Show, SF Art Market, and cultural exhibitions in Italy in collaboration with the Lithuanian Consulate. She has been awarded for her work at the Lithuanian Museum of Art in Illinois in juried exhibitions, 2026. Her work is held in institutional collections, including the Samogitian Museum in Lithuania, where it was acquired into the permanent collection following a solo presentation in 2024. Additional exhibitions include the MAACA Museum in Italy.
Her paintings have also appeared in major motion pictures, including Iron Man 3, Fast & Furious 7, Truth Be Told, Forever 2 and The Dybbuk.
Augius deepened her technical training in the Mische technique under the mentorship of Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffmann in Cadaqués, Spain. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a doctorate in physiotherapy, both of which inform her methodical, embodied approach to painting. Influences from Eastern contemplative traditions further shape her artistic philosophy, emphasizing containment, continuity, and inner coherence.
Raised in Chicago, Augius currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where she maintains her studio practice.
Coming from a lineage of artists
Augius’ ancestors are artists; writers, painters, lithographers, poets, singers, and also spiritualists & scientists.
Krista takes pride in being from a family of artists such as her grandfather, Paulius Augius, a graphic artist and lithographer, her grandmother Danute Lipciute/Augius, a poet and writer, grandmother Irena Barzdukas a painter, grandfather Kazys Barzdukas a freedom fighter and singer and her great uncle Maironis a prominent lithuanian poet and spiritualist who wrote Lithuania’s national anthem, ‘Lietuva Brangi,’ “Precious Lithuania”. Maironis is honored on the 20 Litas currency in Lithuania.
‘Paulius Augius died unexpectedly following a short illness on December 7, 1960. There is no question that he was one of the most creative graphic artists that emerged from the Lithuanian countryside during a relatively brief period of Lithuanian independence. He and his colleagues from the Kaunas Art School set the standards and direction that have been followed by Lithuanian graphic artists in his homeland and beyond Lithuania. The future generations of artists no doubt will be indebted for the high artistic tradition which Paulius Augius helped to establish. Even beyond the significance of Augius to the development of Lithuanian graphic art, his work is of universal value. This is testified by the numerous international exhibits of his works and their ownership by internationally renown museums.’ LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Volume 14, No.1 - Spring 1968
Contemporary Artist
Los Ángeles. Paris