Robert Duran: 1970–1977 & Maja Ruznic: Srklet / Karma Gallery
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- Aug 6
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Robert Duran: 1970–1977
Maja Ruznic: Srklet
Karma Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
July 25–September 13, 2025
Two exhibitions from Karma Gallery by artists Robert Duran and Maja Ruznic.
Robert Duran arrived at painting through Minimalist sculpture, creating enigmatic abstract works that bucked the hard-edged trend then dominating the 1960s New York scene of which he was a part. In the following decade, the contours of his colorful glyphs softened and stretched, eventually reaching vertically from top to bottom of his unprimed canvases. 1970–1977 is the first presentation of the artist’s watercolors and acrylic paintings in California, where he was born in 1938.
Maja Ruznic describes her works on paper as “portals,” apertures inviting both the artist and the viewer into her fantastical worlds of morphing shapes, chimerical figures, and saturated color. Painted with acrylic-based gouache on raw Khadi paper, these works are an essential part of the artist’s practice: working small at the beginning of each day in the studio allows Ruznic the freedom to summon new images from her unconscious. The first exhibition dedicated solely to this vital component of her oeuvre, Srklet—titled after a Bosnian word that describes a psychological ache or discomfort—presents a selection of works on paper made this year where color and form fuse into investigations of the mystical, the emotional, and the historical.
