Ms. Dragana Crnjak
Professor
Art
Bliss Hall
phone: (330) 941-1860
Bio
Bosnian born, Dragana Crnjak moved to the United States in 1997. She received her BFA in Painting from Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, Ohio in 2002 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in 2004. She is recipient of Virginia Museum of Fine Art Professional Fellowship in drawing and multiple Individual Excellence Awards from Ohio Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is collected by numerous private and public collections.
Dragana Crnjak's studio practice has been based in interdisciplinary art practices, combining painting, drawing, design, public art and site-specific installations. Driven by questions of belonging and identity, Crnjak explores perception through mark-making and patterns - tracing fragmented architectural and natural landscapes to suggests spaces in transition - as still being shaped, built or erased.
Research Interests
- Contemporary Painting and Drawing
- Mural and Public Art
- Interdisciplinary art practices
- Abstract and representational painting and drawing
- Pattern / Design
- Memory and Time
- Perception and Cognitive processes
- Abstracted Landscape
- Site specific art/ large scale painting and drawing
Teaching Interests
- Painting
- Drawing
- Interdisciplinary Art
- Mural and Public Art
- Art installation/ Site Specific Art