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Down the hill by the stomp pass the
water pump make right…;
Charcoal,
acrylic on wall, dimensions variable, 2011
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| Slow Reveal; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2008 |
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I am interested in the perception itself, and the processes of sensing in relation to those of understanding. The process of painting for me always exists between discovery and contemplation, memory and invention. While focusing strongly on the visual presence of the work and the physicality of the mark, I am simultaneously interested in the impalpable. The surface confronts a viewer physically first while the image gradually opens up spatial depths and triggers new perceptual shifts and dimensions. The mystery of these interspaces keeps providing inspiration, new visual thinking and potentials.
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| House 12; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2013 |
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| The Day it Rained
Silver,
Charcoal, acrylic on wall, dimensions variable, 2011 |
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Process
– in progress
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| I Thought I Might
Find You Here;
Charcoal, acrylic on wall, 2009 |
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| Untitled; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2010 |
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| Unusual Morning; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2007 |
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| Good Timing; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2013 |
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| Field; Charcoal, acrylic
on wall, dimensions variable, 2009 |
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| House; Charcoal on wall,
dimensions variable, 2007 |
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Bio
Born in 1977 in former
Yugoslavia, Dragana Crnjak received her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She is an
interdisciplinary artist whose work toys
with viewers’ perceptions in wall drawings that somehow manage to create
impossible illusions even as they seem only fleetingly present. She is a recipient of Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in
visual art for 2008, 2011, 2015, Research Professorship from Youngstown State
University, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in
drawing. Her work has been exhibited at Urban Institute for Contemporary
Arts in Grand Rapids, MI; Gallery at Porter, Art Institute of Boston; Kathryn
Markel Gallery, New York City; SPACES gallery in Cleveland; and more. Her work is represented by Page Bond Gallery
in Richmond, VA and Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ.
She had taught art at
University of Virginia and The Cleveland Institute of Art. She is currently
Associate Professor at Youngstown State University, Ohio, teaching painting and
drawing.
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