Danielle Mužina
Madonna del Parto
13 November 2026 – 16 January 2027
Window on Forsyth Vitrine
On view 24/7
Danielle Mužina’s painting Madonna del Parto (2022) is on view in the Window on Forsyth Vitrine at Bruno David Gallery, visible day and night from Forsyth Boulevard in downtown Clayton.
Danielle Mužina is a Cleveland-based painter who makes figurative paintings about place, identity, and crisis, drawing on her experience as a queer woman from a Croatian immigrant family. In her Pink Apocalypse series, groups of women respond to ambiguous social, bodily, and environmental events beneath an unnatural pink sky, some bearing magenta wounds, as a metaphor for an unstable present.
Working in oil and acrylic on panel, she turned to these subjects after Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony and the #MeToo movement; the work examines how gender performance and trauma shape relationships, selfhood, and the experience of space, drawing on Catholic imagery and her immigrant grandmother’s reflections on crises in the former Yugoslavia. Femme in the End Times grew from a wish to build community and a “safe house” as a queer person; during a Feverdream residency in Cleveland, tableaux vivants staged with community members became source material for paintings and a 2026 mural.
Bruno David Gallery began representing Mužina in October 2024 and opened her solo exhibition Femme in the End Times, with a catalogue, on 7 February 2025.
THE WORK
Danielle Mužina
Madonna del Parto, 2022
Oil on panel
44 x 60 in. (111.8 x 152.4 cm)
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