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DOUG NAVARRA: PRESENCE

June 16 - JuLY 15, 2018

Untitled, 2016, gouache, ink, on found paper, 20.5” x 25”

ARTIST TALK saturday, June 23, 3 PM RECEPTION saturday, June 23, 4-6 PM

1. Untitled, 2016 gouache, pencil, ink, on found manuscript 18” x 24” $7,500

2. Ear Buck, 2018 gouache, pencil, ink, perforations on found paper 14” x 27” $6,500

3. Untitled, 2015 gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper 16” x 25” $7,500

4. Untitled, 2016 gouache, ink, on found paper 20.5” x 25” $7,500

5. Untitled, 2015 gouache, ink, pencil, on found paper 19” x 25” $7,500

6. Untitled, 2015 gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper 22” x 22.5” $7,500

7. Untitled, 2014 gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper 21.25” x 24.75” $7,500

8. Untitled, 2017 gouache, ink, pencil, on found manuscript 20.5” x 38.5” $7,500

9. The Void, 2017 gouache, ink , pencil, on found manuscript $15,000

10. Untitled, 2015 gouache, pencil, ink, on Japanese Boro 26” x 26.5” $7,500

Juror, 2018 solo show Artists: Kenise Barnes - director, kenise Barnes Fine Art

Untitled, 2014, gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper, 21.25” x 24.75”

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DOUG NAVARRA: PRESENCE

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

doug navarra, a current resident of st. remy, is originally from Brooklyn, nY. His education includes a BFA from tyler school of Art (temple university), and an MFA from the university of Minnesota. His avocation and prime directive is to convey a metaphor of history in what drawing and painting may be.

Previous solo exhibitions have been at Art Miami with the sandra Gering Gallery (2014), “Marking time,” at Manifest Gallery, cincinnati, ohio (2013), “telegram drawings,” Locust Grove estate of samuel Morse, Poughkeepsie, nY (2010),“Marking time,” recent drawings, ok Harris Gallery, nYc, nY (2009), “new Work”at illinois central college, east Peoria, illinois (2007), and also “Marking time,” recentdrawings, radford university, Virginia (2005)

His list of accolades includes a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1980), two nYFA Fellowships (1985, 2014), a Gottlieb Foundation grant (2003), and two Pollock- krasner Fellowships (1999, 2012). in 2010, he was Air at the Museum of Arts anddesign (MAd) open studio Program in nYc.

www.dougnavarra.com

ABOUT THE ARTIST

I have always defined drawing as making marks on a surface, which leaves the door open for what is a mark and what is

a drawing surface. in my case, i have chosen to work on old ‘found paper’ documents with many of these being more than 100 years old. i inherit a history of mark-making circumstance on these documents in regards to stains, tears, smudges, folds, color of paper, design elements, stamps, gesture, and a narrative, just to name a few. it is a vocabulary of preordained aesthetics that i must react to, develop a relationship with, choose to enhance, delete, adopt, or obliterate, while imposing new layers from my own time and interval of space. in a sense, the drawing becomes a metaphor for how we deal with our past, and our collective history and whether we choose to ignore, change, or embellish it, which can bring its more important components into the contemporary light of day.

When my personal history as a 21st century artist is added to a 150 year old piece of paper, it transforms the context of the page from a minor historical record into a contemporary and self-expressive work of art. this metamorphosis underscores the social purposes these documents served years ago in both time and place, which are no longer tangible; yet an element of their respective histories still remains. each document becomes a foundation for the new work that pays homage to its history and, at the same time, breathes life into the paint that now embosses it with a new layer, adding to the original composition. that retrieval from history is intended to portray a remembrance of our lost and forgotten identities.

My own additions bear a reverence for these changes, which subsequently gives shape to the present, and simultaneously differentiates and joins ‘then and now.’

My work is not about it but because of it.

images (clockwise from upper left):

Untitled, 2015, gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper, 16” x 25” Untitled, 2015, gouache, ink, pencil, on found paper, 19” x 25”

Untitled, 2015, gouache, pencil, ink, on found paper, 22” x 22.5”

Untitled, 2015, gouache, pencil, ink, on Japanese Boro, 26” x 26.5”