California-based artist Eva Visnjic possesses an amazing ability to connect with audience through her unique paintings that obviously carry an emotional and personal message. In a way, paintings are signs that convey information regarding the human experience, regardless what that human experience is comprised of. From her relationship with nature, with urban places, structures of social and political nature, emotional exchanges such as love, hate, and loneliness, Visnjic uses painting as a mean of channeling her urgency to connect.
Her depiction and representation of symbols comes together in her work which is rendered in meticulous details, with smooth colorful brushstrokes of paint applied gently to the surface. Precise and delicate, her brushwork gives the effect of a blurry identity, making it look as an object or image that we feel we know. Every art related matter interests, inspires and spurs her on. Painting allows her to take control of things, even if that may be colors, paintbrushes or simply space. In her early beginnings, Eva Visnjic used to paint mainly small pictures of flowers, but with time she started incorporating larger, delicate abstractions that depicted intricate, spectral projections alongside other ambivalent visions.
A set of questions regarding her collection of paintings figurative seems to be one of her biggest motivations for her distinct body of work. Figuration and abstraction, situations that it extends out into the world or that she has no control over, are some of the things that she enjoys most about her work. Most of the planning happens on site, often in public places where her subjects simply live. Painting models is a bit different, as they usually come into her studio, which means she has more control over the situation. Eva Visnjic has been painting her entire life, since the day she could hold a pencil, and throughout her life her passion for art just kept growing, until one day her biggest dream came true and her hobby turned into a profession. Following her dream, she still has a long way to go, but she is optimistic that with enough effort she will eventually get there.
