Maja Ruznic at the Aspen Art Museum 2022

Maja Ruznic in Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper
at the Aspen Art Museum
December 9, 2022—April 2, 2023

Aspen Art Musem
637 East Hyman Avenue
Aspen, Colorado 81611

This exhibition delves specifically into the inherent experimental spirit of drawing. Using fantasy and the subconscious as a point of departure, Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper considers the ways artists express their interior worlds. Placing recent works by Carmen Argote, Naotaka Hiro, Hanna Hur, Jutta Koether, Joshua AM Ross, and Maja Ruznic in dialogue, this show explores how these artists employ the medium of drawing to navigate this theme. These pieces contemplate the intrinsic performative element of drawing, a medium that has the ability to conjure worlds beyond our own with the very physical tools within our own realms. The act of drawing is akin to creating architectural or written plans, which also suggests a kind of potential, giving life to dreams.