Dalia Ramanauskas b. 1936
Dalia Ramanauskas was born in 1936 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She came to the United States in 1949, where she later graduated from Southern Connecticut College in 1958. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA; the Albright Knox Museum, NY; the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania; the Norfolk Museum of Art, CT and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; among others. Ramanauskas is represented in several permanent collections such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Minnesota Museum of Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Fine Arts Museums, CA, and the Yale University Art Gallery, CT.
A master of her medium, Dalia Ramanauskas brings heightened focus to the memorabilia of daily life through her meticulous drawings of paper cups, playing cards and other everyday curiosities. Combining the sensibility of the old masters with the subtle unrealities of Magical Realism, Ramanauskas’ still lifes are imbued with a formal tension, poetic atmosphere and whimsical sense of humor.
