12″x14.5″; gouache, color pencil, found document; 2006. Courtesy of the artist and 68 Prince Street Gallery.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Present Tense: Past Participle
at the 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston, New York, USA
18 October-16 November 2025
Artist Douglas Navarra brings together 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. In his drawings, aged documents—creased, stamped, stained, and written upon—become palimpsests.
19″x25″; gouache, ink, pencil on found paper; 2015. Courtesy of the artist and 68 Prince Street Gallery.
Onto these fragile grounds, Navarra layers his own gestures, engaging in a dialogue between anonymous historical traces and contemporary presence. Each page becomes a meditation on how we encounter our collective past, and how choices to erase, amplify, or transform shape what we bring into the present.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
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