A plaza designed by Kasuba, in front of the Old Post Office Pavilion, now the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.

Aleksandra Kasuba (January 10, 1923 – March 5, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American environmental artist.[1]

Kasuba studied sculpture in her native country[2] before emigrating to the United States with her husband Vytautas Kašuba in 1947,[3][4] having spent the previous two years in Germany as a refugee.[5][6] Much of her work, in materials such as marble and brick, is abstract and architectural in nature, and is fully integrated into nearby buildings. 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.[2] She also produced a design for the Amherst Street station of Buffalo Metro Rail.[7][3][8] In addition to her sculptural work, she has received architectural awards for designs made of stretched fabric.[2] Kasuba lived in New York and New Mexico during her career.[9] A collection of her papers is currently held by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.[10] She was the subject of a retrospective at the National Art Gallery in Vilnius in 2015.[6][11]

References

  1. ↑ "IN MEMORIAM Lithuanian-born environmental artist and designer Afleksandra Kasuba passes". Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
  3. 1 2 Bannon, Anthony (October 23, 1983). "Artist-Craftsman Teamwork Speeds First Subway Artwork". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, NY. p. 83. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ↑ "Aleksandra Kasuba - RIT: Art on Campus". Artoncampus.rit.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  5. ↑ Drewes, Caroline (March 19, 1975). "Kasuba—Caught Up in Space". The San Francisco Examiner. Buffalo, NY. p. 25. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. 1 2 Kelly, John (2016-07-30). "Why is someone's name engraved on a stone outside the Old Post Office?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  7. ↑ Simon, Peter (October 5, 1983). "First of 23 Artists Has Designs on Rapid Transit System". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, NY. p. 35. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ↑ "Aleksandra Kasuba: Architectural Structures in New Mexico Desert - Stasys Gostautas". Lituanus.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  9. ↑ Weideman, Paul (April 16, 2004). "The Art of Space". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Santa Fe, NM. pp. 50, 51, 53. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  10. ↑ "Aleksandra Kasuba papers, 1942-2013, bulk 1960-2000 | Archives of American Art". Aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  11. ↑ "Aleksandra Kasuba at the NDG, Vilnius". varnelis.net. 2014-12-06. Archived from the original on 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2017-06-08.


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