Douglas Navarra

october 18 - noveMBER 16, 2025

Opening Reception:

Saturday, october 18, 2025  |  5 - 8:00 pm

IN THE MAIN GALLERY and front GALLERY | 

solo exhibit: douglas Navarra  

We are pleased to present Present Tense : Past Participle, a solo exhibition of new works by Douglas Navarra. The exhibition brings together Navarra’s dual practices of drawing and ceramics, each rooted in history yet charged with the immediacy of the present. Navarra’s work unfolds across two intertwined platforms: drawing on found papers, many more than a century old, and the making of vessels in clay. Both practices are acts of mark-making that respond to surfaces already imbued with history.

“...Across both drawing and ceramics, my practice is concerned with the layering of time, the reactivation of histories, and the interplay between preservation and transformation. Whether inscribing new marks onto aged paper or shaping clay into vessels that recall and revise their lineage, I aim to hold “then and now” together in the same frame. The works are not simply objects but embodiments of memory, presence, and renewal, reminders that our past is never fixed, but always in flux through the lens of the present moment. It is here where marks and forms hold time softly. Memory and tradition whisper across each surface, as the work breathes in the present, carrying renewal into a future of possibility.”

Navarra lives and works in the Northeastern United States and has exhibited his work across the country at museums, galleries, and universities. He has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and is a three-time awardee of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Fellowship. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, and Rutgers University.
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