Karma presents The World Doesn’t End, an exhibition of new oils and gouaches by Maja Ruznic, on view through August 23, 2024, at 22 and 188 East 2nd Street. Ruznic’s unmediated, improvisational paintings portray alternate worlds in which figures merge with their mutating environments. Titled after a 1990 book of prose poetry by Charles Simic, who, like Ruznic, hails from former Yugoslavia, the new exhibition—gouaches at 188 East 2nd Street and large-scale oil paintings at 22 East 2nd Street—illustrates Ruznic’s visions of life enduring in the face of adversity. As one world is destroyed, another begins, and with it new truths are revealed.