From December 19, 2025 to January 17, 2026, Tomas Rudokas’s exhibition “RRR” will be on view at the Šiauliai Art Gallery.
Opening: Friday, December 19, at 5:00 PM.
Admission is free during the opening event.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The title of the exhibition “RRR” can be deciphered as Revision, Reconstruction, Representation. At times, there comes a desire to revisit one’s earlier paintings, to carry out a kind of revision, after which dissatisfaction arises with what was created two or three years ago. This leads to taking up the brush again and repainting directly over old canvases. These repainted works make up the larger part of the exhibition. I do not know whether I will repaint them once more in a few years, but at this moment, this is the creative result that fully satisfies me as an artist.
I define this stage of my practice as “concreteness within abstraction.” In the painted works, I have remained orderly and disciplined. Geometric forms that are easily recognizable to everyone have “arranged themselves” on the canvases into specific color compositions, in which abstract forms create associative imagery. In these works—at least as it seems to me—a meeting point between the concrete and the abstract takes place. Abstract forms assemble into associative images that await recognition.
— Tomas Rudokas
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tomas Rudokas (b. 1968 in Panevėžys) is a graphic artist, painter, and educator. From 1975 to 1986, he studied at Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis Secondary School (now Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis Gymnasium). From 1986 to 1993, he studied at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute.
Since 1994, he has worked as a teacher at Paįstrys Juozas Zikaras Secondary School. He has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 1999, and since 2003 has served as Chair of the Panevėžys Section of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
The artist organizes solo exhibitions and actively participates in group exhibitions and plein-air sessions in Lithuania and abroad.
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