SONJA NAVIN
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Contents Copyright © 2003-2013
STATEMENT
My work strives to capture a point in time, that when manipulated through the process of paint, reveals an instant that would have passed unnoticed. It is somewhere between representation and abstraction that an image expresses what I cannot with words.
I started painting as a way to record and study places. This evolved naturally from my work as an architect. Eventually, the figure found its way into my painting. My paintings are personal narratives or visual diaries. I can communicate in a language of my own making.
ARTIST BIO
Selected Exhibitions:
2013
“The Insistence of Color”, Solo Show, November 23, 2013 - January 5, 2014,
ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“City Streets”, Group Show, July 12 - August 19, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Small Works”, Group Show, March 10 - April 8, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
“Vestige & Vision”, Solo Show, July 12 - August 19, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Introductions 2012”, Juried, March 10 - April 8, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Hand You My Heart”, February 14 – March 14, The Little Raven Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jackson Place Salon, Solo Show, February 1 – April 30, San Francisco, CA
2011
“Tiny”, November 3 – December 23, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“City Streets”, August 10 – September 4, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Roseark Gallery, April – May 2011, West Hollywood, CA
ArtSpan Benefit Art Show and Auction (selected for Live Auction), March 26, San Francisco, CA
2010
Open Studios, October 23 & 24, San Francisco, CA
“Views of the City”, June 4 – June 30, Artist-Xchange Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Paint a Better Tomorrow” by Invisible Hand of the Philanthropist, fundraiser for Nepalese Youth
Opportunity Foundation, March 21, Foster City, CA
“Let : Familiar Be New”, March 5 – April 30, Greenhouse Cafe, San Francisco, CA
2009
Open Studios, October 24 & 25, San Francisco, CA
Education:
Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1995
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1992
