She had her first New York solo show last summer, before which she'd already sold at least one painting for $30,000. At that show, Agora gallery director Anglea Di Bello called Aelita's work "abstract expressionism" and also "surrealist".
Aelita started painting before she was two years old. Michael Andre, the girl's father, said that at as early as nine-months, Aelita would crawl onto her parents' canvasses (both are artists) and begin to paint.