An artist with a free spirit, exploring her life from the inside out
Art is a necessity for me. My life doesn’t feel complete without expression. Whether I’m painting, singing, dancing, sculpting, breathing. Life is a journey and so is the way I express it through my creations. Sometimes I’m playful, sometimes I’m tediously perfectionistic, sometimes it’s a reflection of my intimate life. My art comes in all shapes and forms. Maybe you will appreciate it, maybe it will feel like something more, or maybe you will feel the part of my being that I’ve shared with the world. Whatever it is, the way it comes out is my story, it’s my magic and it’s my art.
Bio
Krista Augius is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist with her art studio in Malibu, California. Raised in Chicago as a Lithuanian American, she grew up around her grandparents who were artists and instilled a deep appreciation for art.
An artist from an early age with a vigor for the imaginative and wonder in life, Augius explored painting, writing, photography, film, singing and songwriting throughout her life. Studying science, her appreciation of life and form grew with a developing analytical eye. Evolving her style of expression came alongside exploring all that life offered her from world travel to over 35 countries with feasts to the senses of immense beauty, culture, and experiences. Her personal life challenges of experiencing murder, sexual assault, betrayal and surviving cancer shaped the depth and fortitude of her character and the spiritual nature of her art and her expression. Her work as a healer and a meditation teacher has offered insight and inspiration with deep connection to humanity and all that it offers and all that there is to explore... Augius has also written and published a fairytale, Stolen by Moon Fairies, that is available in english, lithuanian and italian that combines an essence of lithuanian folklore with a spiritual journey.
Augius has shown her art in international exhibitions such as Art Market, the LA Art Show and museums such as MAACA in Italy. Her art has been celebrated in Sicily by direct invitation of the Lithuanian consulate to Sicily. Her artwork is collected in museums such as the Samogitian Museum in Lithuania. Her artwork has also appeared in movies such as Iron Man III, Fast and Furious 7, and television series like Truth Be Told and Based on a True Story.
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
Artist for life.
It’s a sensitive soul that feels everything, it’s a strong one that shares it. KA