{"id":30112,"date":"2024-10-02T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=30112"},"modified":"2024-10-02T22:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:13:42","slug":"maja-ruznic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/maja-ruznic\/","title":{"rendered":"Maja Ruznic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Brad Trone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maja Ruznic<\/a> (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic\u2019s practice is informed by her studies, from Slavic shamanism and alchemy to Jungian psychoanalysis and sacred geometry.
\nImbued with a discordant beauty, her compositions emerge without a premeditated outcome. Ruznic\u2019s introspective, mystical approach places her into a lineage of visionary
\npainters including Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint. Ruznic lives in Placitas, New Mexico.
\nRecent solo exhibitions include those held at Karma (New York, 2024, Los Angeles, 2023); Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (2022); Karma, New York (2022); and Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico (2021). Ruznic\u2019s work is held in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Dallas Art Museum; EMMA \u2013 Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; Jim\u00e9nez\u2013Col\u00f3n Collection, Puerto Rico; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Rachofsky House, Dallas; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work was recently on view in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.<\/p>\n

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Maja Ruznic, On the Other Side, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1\/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. \u00a9 Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maja Ruznic, Arrival of Wild Gods II, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1\/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. \u00a9 Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maja Ruznic, Geometry of Sadness, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 x 2 1\/2 inches, 254 x 381 x 6.35 cm. \u00a9 Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maja Ruznic, Arrangement of a Nervous System, 2023, Gouache on paper, 16 3\/8 x 11 5\/8 inches, 41.59 x 29.53 cm. 24 x 29 1\/4 inches, 60.96 x 74.30 cm (framed). \u00a9 Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Brad Trone Maja Ruznic (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic\u2019s practice is informed by her studies, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30166,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112\/revisions\/30166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}