Marie Navarre

"find us soon" black and white photography moon sky clouds tree silhouette

2020

Marie Navarre remembering the way, 2021 archival digital print on Surface Gampi, Rives BFK 25.5" x 25" unframed 28.75" x 27.75" framed Edition of 5 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...

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Julianne Swartz Placement (Disc), 2007 C-Print 13.5 x 17" unframed 14.75 x 18 inches framed Edition of 8 Often working with materials that could be purchased from the local hardwa...

Binh Danh Buddhas of Bayon #3, 2017 Daguerreotype (exposed from an enlarger) 8" x 6" / 11.25" x 9.25" framed Edition of 3 Binh Danh’s work expresses his i...

Binh Danh Entrance to Angkor Thom, 2017 Daguerreotype (exposed from an enlarger) 8" x 10" / 13" x 14.75" framed Edition of 3 Binh Danh’s work expresses h...

Gerald Berghammer - Limited edition of 9. Archival fine art pigment print. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white ...

Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Single tree in Golden Field, California, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by ar...

Black and white fine art waterscape - landscape photography. Giant rocks in the surf on the beach in Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and num...

Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Architecture detail from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, title...

Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Famous group of cypress trees in autumn on the hills of Tuscany, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, date...

Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...