My work focuses on a sense of place and time. The atmosphere that creates a particular light is very variable and I try to capture the atmospheric ambiance of a unique moment. My images follow a long pictorial tradition of trying to depict and ideal, pristine landscape. They evoke more a memory than the reality, which of course is the essence of the photographic medium. Instead of the immediate presence we have the delayed presence of memory. Representation becomes primarily a vehicle for channeling sensations and emotions and not a pursuit in itself. The images show a longing for the past as well as a wish for timelessness, a primordial reality that reveals the Earthly Paradise. Perhaps this sensibility goes back to my experience of exile and that deep memory of a lost home.The format of panoramic images extends the sweep of the viewer’s eye, and also shows variations on a theme and redefines the visual space. 

Nijole Kudirka, who is Lithuanian by birth, is a photographer who is based in New York City. She worked first in sculpture and painting, then photography. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Psychology at Yale University, she studied in New York City at the Studio School, School of Visual Arts and International Center for Photography (ICP). She has traveled extensively and has photographed diverse sites around the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. She has exhibited widely in the US and internationally an her work is in many public collections.

All images are archival ink jet prints on photo rag fine art papers.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020  Alex Ferrone Photo Gallery, Cutchogue, N.Y.

2019 Lithuanian Consulate General, New York, N.Y.

2019 The Galleries at the Interchurch Center, New York, N.Y.

2018 ARTVILNIUS’ 18, Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania

2016 SLA 307 Gallery, New York, N.Y.

2015  Alex Ferrone Photo Gallery (group show), Cutchogue, N.Y.

2014 Tarapoto Art Center, Tarapoto, Peru

2014  Alex Ferrone Photo Gallery, Cutchogue, N.Y.

2012  Photo Place Gallery (group show), Middelbury Vermont

2011  Earth Through A Lens finalist exhibition, Palm Springs, Calif.

2009  Ecco Espace Cultural, Brasilia, Brazil

2009  PHOTOARTE, prize winners exhibit, Ecco Espace Cultural, Brasilia, Brazil         

2007  University of Verona, Verona, Italy

2006  Joyce Towbin Chasan Fine Arts, New York, N.Y.

2005  Gallery Onetwentyeight (group show) New York, N.Y.

2004  Icehouse Gallery, Greenport, N.Y.

2003  Embassy of Venezuela, Washington, D.C.

2002  Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice, Italy

2001  Whitney Works (groups show), Greenport, N.Y.

1999  Mark Miller Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1998  A.I.R. Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1997  The National Museum of Prague (group show), Prague, Czech 

1996  National Arts Club, New York, N.Y.

1995  The Atrium, Columbia University (group show), New York, N.Y.

1992  The National Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

1991  National Arts Club, New York, N.Y.

1987  55 Mercer Street Gallery (group show), New York, N.Y.

1984  Art Latitude Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Her work has been published in Chicago Tribune, Ford Times, Icarus, Olympus Vision Age and numerous Lithuanian journals. Her work is in many public collections, including: McGraw Hill Publ., Wyeth Pharm, Excelon, Ortho Mcneil Pharm. Received the FOTOARTE Brasilia prize for her series Ceara Dunes, 2009 Published two books with poet Bianca Tarozzi, “Objects of Memory,” and  “ House of Paper” (Querini Stampalia press) Republics