The Wailing Sisters
The Wailing Sisters, is a solo presentation of a larger body of work, that was exhibited at CES gallery as part of CES Residency, a residency program for underrepresented Los Angeles-based artists and a unique initiative conceived to support the evolving LA art community. CES Residency continues the gallery’s overall mission of supporting emerging artists.
"The Wailing Sisters is an outcry to all of us in pain, which as Ruznic knows, is all of us. She stains canvases with deep, earthy colors, pulling figures from the Rorschach puddles and pushing and pulling them into situations and narratives. Ruznic has an athletic arm and her marks are confident; abstract symbols for arms and eyes float in a logic broth. Other bodies are crazy-quilted together melting mythically into the landscape. The Wailing Sisters, an excerpt from Ruznic’s most recent body of work titled Soil as Witness, depicts a group of spiritual beings that emerge from the dirt to observe human drama, transmogrifying and absorbing ethereal material before returning ceremoniously to the earth, an endless inter-dimensional cycle. Ruznic’s paintings feel fresh, as if the viewer glanced in the mud and they suddenly materialized, but their content has existed for centuries – oral history passed down through time in dyed pictograms on ceremonially burned fabrics." - CES Gallery press release
The Wailing Sisters, is a solo presentation of a larger body of work, that was exhibited at CES gallery as part of CES Residency, a residency program for underrepresented Los Angeles-based artists and a unique initiative conceived to support the evolving LA art community. CES Residency continues the gallery’s overall mission of supporting emerging artists.
"The Wailing Sisters is an outcry to all of us in pain, which as Ruznic knows, is all of us. She stains canvases with deep, earthy colors, pulling figures from the Rorschach puddles and pushing and pulling them into situations and narratives. Ruznic has an athletic arm and her marks are confident; abstract symbols for arms and eyes float in a logic broth. Other bodies are crazy-quilted together melting mythically into the landscape. The Wailing Sisters, an excerpt from Ruznic’s most recent body of work titled Soil as Witness, depicts a group of spiritual beings that emerge from the dirt to observe human drama, transmogrifying and absorbing ethereal material before returning ceremoniously to the earth, an endless inter-dimensional cycle. Ruznic’s paintings feel fresh, as if the viewer glanced in the mud and they suddenly materialized, but their content has existed for centuries – oral history passed down through time in dyed pictograms on ceremonially burned fabrics." - CES Gallery press release
