Aleksandra Kašubienė
Illustration — A plaza designed by Kasuba, in front of the Old Post Office Pavilion, now the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. Aleksandra Kašubienė "Kasuba" (Fledžinskaitė; January 10, 1923 – March 5, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American environmental artist. Kasuba studied sculpture in her native country before emigrating to the United States with her husband Vytautas Kašuba in 1947, having spent the previous two years in Germany as a refugee. Much of her work, in materials such as marble and brick, is abstract and architectural in nature, and is fully integrated into nearby buildings.
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Aleksandra Kašubienė
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- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2019 · Albuquerque.
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Occupation
- sculptor · artist
- Languages
- Lithuanian
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Illustration — A plaza designed by Kasuba, in front of the Old Post Office Pavilion, now the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. Aleksandra Kašubienė "Kasuba" (Fledžinskaitė; January 10, 1923 – March 5, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American environmental artist. Kasuba studied sculpture in her native country before emigrating to the United States with her husband Vytautas Kašuba in 1947, having spent the previous two years in Germany as a refugee. Much of her work, in materials such as marble and brick, is abstract and architectural in nature, and is fully integrated into nearby buildings.
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Examples may be seen at the Rochester Institute of Technology; Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx; the Bank of California Building in Portland, Oregon; the headquarters of the Container Corporation of America in Chicago; and the plaza in front of the Old Post Office Pavilion, today the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. She also produced a design for the Amherst Street station of Buffalo Metro Rail. In addition to her sculptural work, she has received architectural awards for designs made of stretched fabric. Interested in the exchange of ideas, she collaborated with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) during the 1960s. Kasuba lived in New York and New Mexico during her career. A collection of her papers is currently held by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. She was the subject of a retrospective at the National Art Gallery in Vilnius in 2015. Her first UK museum exhibition was at Tate St Ives in 2026.
Aleksandra Kašubienė is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as a citizen of Lithuania.
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1923
Aleksandra Kašubienė was born on 10 January 1923.
2019
Aleksandra Kašubienė died on 5 March 2019.
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- 1.IN MEMORIAM Lithuanian-born environmental artist and designer Aleksandra Kasuba passes. 15 March 2019.
- 2.Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein. American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. 1990. 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- 3.Bannon, Anthony. Artist-Craftsman Teamwork Speeds First Subway Artwork. The Buffalo News. 83. October 23, 1983.
- 4.Artoncampus.rit.edu. Aleksandra Kasuba - RIT: Art on Campus.
- 5.Drewes, Caroline. Kasuba—Caught Up in Space. The San Francisco Examiner. 25. March 19, 1975.
- 6.Kelly, John. Why is someone's name engraved on a stone outside the Old Post Office?. The Washington Post. 2016-07-30.
- 7.Simon, Peter. First of 23 Artists Has Designs on Rapid Transit System. The Buffalo News. 35. October 5, 1983.
- 8.Lituanus.org. Aleksandra Kasuba: Architectural Structures in New Mexico Desert - Stasys Gostautas.
- 9.Tate. Aleksandra Kasuba Tate St Ives.
- 10.Weideman, Paul. The Art of Space. The Santa Fe New Mexican. 50, 51, 53. April 16, 2004.
- 11.Aaa.si.edu. Aleksandra Kasuba papers, 1942-2013, bulk 1960-2000 | Archives of American Art.
- 12.varnelis.net. Aleksandra Kasuba at the NDG, Vilnius. 2014-12-06.
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