hOMe: 2018-∞ | Drawings by Aušra Kleizaitė

SLA Art Space is pleased to present hOMe: 2018–∞, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Lithuanian artist Aušra Kleizaitė. On view from May 1 through May 30, the exhibition features a selection of drawings created over the span of seven years—works that trace a deeply personal search for safety, memory, and belonging through the most elemental of forms: the line.

Kleizaitė’s practice begins with a dot. A home. From this point, a line emerges—trembling, wandering, pausing, breathing. It becomes a living mark, a thread that carries emotion and thought. “A line begins at home,” she writes, “then it moves. And somehow, it always finds its way back.”

This belief in drawing as both origin and return shapes the exhibition. Composed of several distinct series, hOMe unfolds as a visual meditation on the long, winding, often rocky road toward inner stillness. Her drawings are not illustrations of ideas, but places in themselves—spaces that hold questions, offer pauses, and suggest the possibility of calm.

Since 2002, Kleizaitė has lived and worked between Lithuania and India—a rhythm of movement that infuses her work with shifting perspectives, cultural contrasts, and hybrid sensibilities. Her visual language reflects this duality. “My world begins with drawing,” she reflects. “With a dot and a line. These marks travel through the viewer’s eyes and into memory, stirring shared emotions and opening the door to new ways of feeling, of seeing, of understanding.”

Drawing, for her is a perceptual tool, a language, even a form of music. She uses humble materials—handmade paper, charcoal, pastel—but her works are charged with emotional density and spiritual clarity. In this drawn world, animals—goats, cows—and human figures appear like memories or dreams. They are still, quiet, sometimes fragile, always searching. “In this home, we find animals and people dreaming of safety, peace and happiness. Of home, which sacred, and fragile.”