An artist with a free spirit, exploring her life from the inside out
Krista Augius’s work investigates the human capacity to return to center amid instability. Working primarily in oil and mixed media, she employs restrained formal language to create contained visual fields that hold tension, stillness, and movement simultaneously. Her paintings function not as symbolic abstractions, but as sustained inquiries into inner continuity, perception, and embodied presence.
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. 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, and Truth Be Told. In addition, her work has been recognized by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and Vice President of Saatchi Art, as part of the platform’s selection of leading emerging artists.
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
Artist for life.
It’s a sensitive soul that feels everything, it’s a strong one that shares it. KA