STATEMENT:

 

Jennifer MujezinovicInsert Title Here, 2024-2025Oil Painting, PortraitsJuly 24-September 7, 2025I paint because creating feels as natural to me as breathing, like following arhythm I have always known. To me, painting is a heartbeat, steady andinstinctive. As I work, it becomes a song, a chorus of oiled brushstrokes.My work is unique in its starting point. I begin with a blank canvas andfollow instinct. My paintings are like portraits at their surface, but they’renever portraits in the traditional sense. They’re portraits of a feeling. Ofpresence. Of how I experience beauty. I return often to the female figure, drawn to her elegant, elongated, form.Sometimes with a forehead just out of frame, as if caught mid-thought. Icreate cameos, representative of a world of betweens; reality and idealism,classical portraiture and fashion editorials. A careful balance betweendelicacy and strength, softness and sculpture. Profiles frozen in time. My work is honest, I leave the palette visible, the texture present. You cansee the whole process of it, right down to where the oil paint was mixeddirectly on the canvas. Because beauty, to me, isn’t perfection. It’s raw. It’s human.

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BIO:

Jennifer Mujezinovic is a self-taught oil painter and the founder of Clash Art Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana. Her artistic work is renowned for its layered, emotive portraits of women, which merge classical painting techniques with the visual language of fashion.

Drawing inspiration from the elegance of editorial photography and the composure of Renaissance portraiture, Mujezinovic paints figures that feel at once iconic and intimate. Her subjects are often elongated, poised, and just out of frame, evoking the aesthetic of a painterly fashion spread that has been suspended in time.
 

Drawn initially to art through portraiture, she began by sketching faces as a form of emotional expression. In 2007, while living in Valencia, Spain with her young children, Mujezinovic felt an overwhelming need to paint. Since that day, she has never put her paintbrush down. She started with oil on canvas, working without sketches, building each image intuitively through layered brushwork and mood. Over the course of several years, Jennifer and her family relocated to a different European country nearly every year, allowing her to immerse herself in diverse artistic cultures. This constant movement revealed to her the shared emotional language of art in the human experience by observing similar forms, gestures, and expressions of beauty across the world.

 
In 2021, Mujezinovic opened Clash Art Gallery, a contemporary exhibition space dedicated to showcasing both emerging and established artists along with her own work. The gallery reflects her belief in art as a living dialogue. The dual role as painter and gallerist informs her creative process, giving her a unique perspective on both the making and presentation of contemporary art.
Mujezinovic’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows and has been displayed alongside artists including musician and painter, John Mellencamp. Her paintings have been collected privately and publicly across the United States.