Visnjic: Art for Social Change

With a vision of advancing social change through the use arts, Californian artist Eva Visnjic has set a mission to connect artists and communities through education in the practice of community collaborative arts. The program is envisioned as is a hub for community collaborative arts research and education in the community. The main purpose of the program is to help communities understand the power of community collaborative arts, and show how arts-based projects can be an effective way to achieve goals of community and social development.

Eva shared on Twitter how to use painting loosely and freely in the fresh light of creativity. But before learning to do this, she first took the time to choose the methods and processes that were working for her. As an artist and a teacher, Eva encourages her students to trust in their instincts, and quells their fears about the process of finding one’s own creative voice through painting. Her own artistic interests started early. As a little girl growing up in Bakersfield, California, Eva Visnjic enjoyed support for her artistic endeavors. Both of her parents encouraged her passion for painting and drawing, and with time, just like most artists in training she learned to design, compose, make sketches, and finally put paint to paper with a finished goal in mind. Loose, broad brushstrokes and fresh color is what makes her paintings magical and appealing, instantly captivating one’s attention. By combining her transparent washes of vibrant, flowing color and rich, complex glazes, Eva gets to portray a realistic depiction that retains a fresh, spontaneous quality.

As a contemporary artist she works primarily in the abstract, but often she incorporates human figures into her paintings, in order to create a multi-layered and complicated composition. By doing that, her work preserves detail while maintaining a loose and expressive stroke. As seen on her video profile at Vimeo, Eva Visnjic presents an unified composition which draws attention with its simplistic beauty and luminous colors that she so effortlessly marries together. For Eva, her paintings are a platform to express her emotions, viewpoint, wit or irony. The powerful burst of emotion can be immediately seen in her paintings that seize the viewer’s attention and doesn’t let go.