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Born in Bosnia, Dragana Crnjak moved to the United States in 1997. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Akron's Myers School of Art in 2002 and her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004. She is a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Professional Fellowship in Drawing and numerous Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council.
Crnjak's wall drawings toy with viewers' perceptions by somehow creating impossible illusions even as they seem only fleetingly present. Her fragmented images, drawn with charcoal directly onto the wall, insist on the almost physical presence of the artist's hand. She has surely and literally left her mark, yet her images might as well be in the process of arriving or leaving by teleportation because of how fragmentary and unstable they appear to be.
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