Femme In The End Times

Bruno David Gallery

Feb. 7, 2025 - Mar. 22, 2025

7513 Forsyth Boulevard
St. Louis, 63105
PHONE 314-696-2377

www.brunodavidgallery.com

Bruno David is pleased to present Femme In The End Times, an exhibition by artist Danielle Mužina. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an in-depth exhibition history and bibliography.

The work in “Femme In The End Times” exhibition continues to ask questions about gender-based oppression through envisioning fractured, pink-drenched parallel worlds where characters confront personal and collective agency. In these new additions to her Pink Apocalypse series, she delves further into the rituals, relationships, and acts of care that emerge as survival strategies when structures crumble. These paintings juxtapose moments of vigilance, intimacy, and transformation to question how we navigate our tenuous present

Mužina says “This work emerged from the heightened urge to nurture community and build sanctuary—a “safe house”— as a queer person, woman, and survivor amidst looming societal and political instability going into 2025 in the United States. Throughout the series, acts of care, rebellion, and change emerge as vital survival strategies – even as motives and outcomes remain ambiguous. Rituals of connection—healing gestures, exchanges of knowledge, and moments of trust—become sources of empowerment and solidarity when external systems fail and environments collapse. Vivid color reinforces the emotional intensity of these imaginings. The dense patterns and shifting planes in my compositions echo the cyclical nature of fear, resilience, and preparation, evoking the emotional and physical precarity felt by marginalized individuals facing layered and ongoing adversity.”

Danielle Mužina is an artist and educator from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her B.F.A at Ohio Wesleyan University, her M.A. at Eastern Illinois University, and her M.F.A. at Miami University. Mužina has studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy, and completed residencies at Chautauqua School of Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Her current Pink Apocalypse series was recognized with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and national scholarly organization SECAC’s Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award in 2021. Her artwork is included in John Seed’s 2023 book More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux, and she recently co-authored Creativity & Hope Amid Educational Restrictions in Viewfinder, the online journal of NAEA’s Museum Education division

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