Bruno David Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Cleveland-based artist Danielle Mužina. A solo exhibition of the artist’s work is planned for early 2025.
The characters in her figurative paintings interface with ambiguous social, physical, and environmental happenings as a metaphor for the ways we navigate our tenuous contemporary moment. Dr. Blasey-Ford’s courageous testimony and the #MeToo movement fueled her bravery in making paintings about her survivorship. She questions the impact of gender performance and trauma on relationships, selfhood, and experiences of space. Her works move through and react to the world around her as a survivor and a femme lesbian. She feels herself responding and resisting pressures for gender performance.
In her current work, women react to an apocalyptic turn of events – the sky is often in the process of turning an unnatural shade of pink, and characters reveal ominous magenta wounds. Characters prepare for wanted or unwanted changes, real or imagined threats, and sufficient or insufficient resolutions in an uncertain future. Within and between groups, responses to environmental forces vary, creating either tension or solidarity. Her work grapples with the role figures play actively or inactively, together or divided, in both contributing to and addressing internal and external crises.
Danielle Mužina is an artist and educator from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her B.F.A at Ohio Wesleyan University, her M.A. at Eastern Illinois University, and her M.F.A. at Miami University. Mužina has studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy, and completed residencies at Chautauqua School of Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Her current Pink Apocalypse series was recognized with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and national scholarly organization SECAC’s Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award in 2021. Her artwork is included in John Seed’s 2023 book More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux, and she recently co-authored Creativity & Hope Amid Educational Restrictions in Viewfinder, the online journal of NAEA’s Museum Education division.
Since its founding, Bruno David Gallery has maintained a steadfast dedication to promoting and exhibiting artists with a robust and mature studio practice, making the inclusion of Mužina and her distinctively stylized paintings a natural fit into the existing program. Bruno David, the gallery’s founder adds, “There is no doubt that Mužina is a perfect fit for our gallery. We are excited to contextualize her work with other contemporary artists such as Cindy Tower, Quinn Antonio Briceño, Mee Jey, Ben Brough, Justin Miller and Antonio Ainscough. The gallery mission is to create enduring legacies for the artists it represents, and the addition of Danielle Mužina to our lineup is a move that aligns perfectly with this vision.”
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