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Marie Navarre

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Marie Navarre’s deep interest in poetry, especially the Japanese form of Haiku, has had a profound influence on her work. She conjures dreamlike images that appear to be from just outside the realm of human observation, like the fragments of a distant memory. She prints her mysterious and timeless images of flocks of birds, grey sky and shimmering endless horizons unmoored from specific times and places, then hand stitches over a background of Gampi paper—a soft, silky Japanese paper that has a satin-like sheen. These enigmatic photographic constructions document the implications of a moment rather than its actuality. The artist understands that her relationship to photography is complex: “I have this trouble of being a photographer but wanting to make the photographs into something else. I still think like a photographer even though in some ways I’m sabotaging the way that photography works. I still begin my artmaking process by making pictures. I don’t know how to begin without the photograph.” At play is the tension of a fixed medium documenting a world in movement.

Navarre has a BA, MA and MFA from Arizona State University. Her work is collected nationally and she has received a number of awards including a Capp Street Project Residency Grant in San Francisco for her collaboration with Jim Campbell on an interactive audio-visual installation.

Marie Navarre - the longing (from "found" series), 2022, archival digital print on photo rag paper, 20" x 14" unframed
Marie Navarre - the longing (from "found" series)
Marie Navarre - mirror, 2021, archival digital print, film positives, Pictorico, colored pencil, PVA, Rives BFK, 24.5" x 17" unframed, 26.5" x 19" framed, edition of 3
Marie Navarre - mirror
Marie Navarre - dark debt, 2021, archival digital print, film positives, Pictorico, colored pencil, PVA, Rives BFK, 24.5" x 17" unframed, 26.5" x 19" framed, edition of 3
Marie Navarre - dark debt
Marie Navarre - find us soon, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 25.5 x 25 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - find us soon
Marie Navarre - remembering the way, 2021, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 25.5 x 25 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - remembering the way
Marie Navarre - breath, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 27.25 by 24.75 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - breath
Marie Navarre - so we live here, forever taking leave (from Rilke), 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 19.5 x 53 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - so we live here, forever taking leave (from Rilke)
Marie Navarre - always just gone, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 16 x 40.75 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - always just gone
Marie Navarre - rending...mending, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 18.5 x 42.75 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - rending...mending
Marie Navarre - from an ancient well (thank you, Abdullah Ibrahim), 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 30 x 38.125 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - from an ancient well (thank you, Abdullah Ibrahim)
Marie Navarre - always there, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 4.625 x 6.875 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - always there
Marie Navarre - bluebird, 2020, archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK, 6.875 x 4.625 inches unframed
Marie Navarre - bluebird
Marie Navarre - breathing the in between, 2010, digital vellum, silk thread, handmade Japanese paper, 20 by 77 inches framed
Marie Navarre - breathing the in between
Marie Navarre - learn from the pine (from Basho) (SOLD), 2016, rag paper, Japanese washi, archival digital print on vellum, silk thread, 24.5 by 64 inches
Marie Navarre - learn from the pine (from Basho)
Marie Navarre - turning towards the light, 2016, rag paper, digital washi, digital vellum, silk thread, 18.5 by 67.5 inches
Marie Navarre - turning towards the light
Marie Navarre - Songs and cries, 2010, film, gampi, rag paper, silk thread, antique book pages, archival inkjet prints, 20 by 77 inches framed
Marie Navarre - Songs and cries
Marie Navarre - No here, no there, 2010, film, mulberry paper, rag paper, silk thread, 18 by 40.5 inches framed
Marie Navarre - No here, no there
Marie Navarre - season of longing, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 36.5 by 46.25 inches framed
Marie Navarre - season of longing
Marie Navarre - silent language, 2016, rag paper, digital vellum, digital rag paper, silk thread, 34.5 by 44 inches
Marie Navarre - silent language
Marie Navarre - gravity of memory, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 46.75 by 21 inches framed
Marie Navarre - gravity of memory
Marie Navarre - where we meet, 2016, rag paper, digital washi, digital vellum, silk thread, 19.5 by 34.25 inches
Marie Navarre - where we meet
Marie Navarre - as light passes through us, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 18.5 by 42 inches framed
Marie Navarre - as light passes through us
Marie Navarre - feeling space, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 4.5 by 10.5 inches
Marie Navarre - feeling space
Marie Navarre - broken whole, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 24.5 by 42.25 inches framed
Marie Navarre - broken whole
Marie Navarre - at once, everywhere and nowhere, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 4.25 by 9.25 inches
Marie Navarre - at once, everywhere and nowhere
Marie Navarre - here is there, 2016, rag paper, digital rag paper, digital vellum, silk thread, 5.25 by 4.25 inches
Marie Navarre - here is there
Marie Navarre - Here, now, 2013, digital print on vellum, digital print on rag paper, rag paper, colored paper, silk thread, 46.25 by 37.75 inches framed
Marie Navarre - Here, now
Marie Navarre - Dark reply, 2010, film, silk thread, monofilament, paper, 37 by 21 inches framed
Marie Navarre - Dark reply
Marie Navarre - Disappearance of distance (SOLD), 2010, film, gampi paper, rag paper, silk thread, 24 by 30 inches
Marie Navarre - Disappearance of distance
Marie Navarre - Everything speaks, 2012, found and de-acidified book page, rag paper, mylar and graphite, film positive, gouache, silk thread, 10 by 6 inches
Marie Navarre - Everything speaks
Marie Navarre - Present absence, 2013, found and de-acidified paper, digital print on vellum, soot, graphite, rag paper, 10 by 7.57 inches
Marie Navarre - Present absence
Marie Navarre - We who are only shadows and shades, 2004, film, paper, thread, 20 by 17 inches
Marie Navarre - We who are only shadows and shades

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