Joyce Gordon Gallery 12-Year Anniversary Exhibition Sept. 4 – Oct. 31, 2015

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Yearbook- 12th Anniversary flyer_2015Press RELEASE for JGG Yearbook 2015

Fantastic upcoming exhibition at Joyce Gordon Gallery (406 14th St., Downtown Oakland) Sept. 4th (First Friday Opening, 6-9pm) through October 31st, 2015 (with an Artist Talk and Catalog Release First Friday, October 2nd, 6-9pm) !! I am deeply honored to be amongst amazing artists, art supporters, and, of course, Joyce Gordon and my long-time pal, Eric Murphy!   Check it out!!

“We Are You Project” exhibition @ Kean University, NJ, USA

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"We Are You Project" Exhibition at Kean University, NJ, USA

“We Are You Project” Exhibition at Kean University, NJ, USA

Honored to be in this upcoming exhibition with amazing, amazing artists, poets, scholars, musicians, filmmakers, performers and intellectuals. The exhibition takes place at the Human Rights Institute at Kean University, New Jersey, from September 15, 2015 through January 2016…

For much, much more information regarding the Opening Reception, Poetry reading, Guest Lecture, Panel Discussion, and Film Screening:

http://www.weareyouproject.org/

http://www.kean.edu/academics/human-rights-institute/events

Pop Goes The Easel – Redux Exhibition Los Angeles, Nov – Dec 2015

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Dear Friends, This is an early invitation (with postcard attached) for a 3-person exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. It is titled "Pop Goes The Easel - Redux". It runs from the beginning of November through December, 2015. The Opening and Artist Talk is still being "nailed down", but will most likely be on the second Friday of November ( Friday, Nov. 13th)... updates will come as soon as all is in place (including the exact address)! Thank you and Happy mid-August! Best Regards, Gabriel Navar

Dear Friends,
This is an early invitation (with postcard attached) for a 3-person exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. It is titled “Pop Goes The Easel – Redux”. It runs from the beginning of November through December, 2015. The Opening and Artist Talk is still being “nailed down”, but will most likely be on the second Friday of November ( Friday, Nov. 13th)… updates will come as soon as all is in place (including the exact address)!
Thank you and Happy mid-August!
Best Regards,
Gabriel Navar

Artist Spotlight: Gabriel Navar

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I am very grateful and honored to have been featured in Claire St. Hilaire‘s WordPress Blog. She is a very gifted artist.
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Every Life is a Memoir

Gabriel Navar’s artwork gives one a glimpse of the bold, surreal and symbolic world of the subconscious usually reserved for dreams. He draws upon an expansive background of cultural insight, including the American (particularly Californian) cultural experience, art history, his own Mexican heritage and an awareness of the ubiquitous use of, and dependence on, technological devices. Utilizing this wealth of knowledge, along with skills learned from years of study, Navar is able to produce pieces that fuse pop culture, modernism and classical skill with a dash of comic book flair.

One can easily become lost in the trance-like state in which his artwork exists. Part of the magic of his work is its ability to keep one enraptured with enough modernistic style to revive latent emotions while maintaining enough context to satisfy intellectual reasoning. In fact, while gazing into the expanse of Navar’s paintings one not only gains a sense

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