In my research and creative work, I explore the transitory nature of gestures and their manifolded implications. Working across the disciplines of visual art, dance, and time-based media, my approach aims to expand my awareness of gestures within the complex of artistic, cultural, philosophical and personal registers. Gesture denotes a kind of inscription, a tracing or marking in space and time. Beginning from examining my own body, I consider it both as a creative agent and an archival depository. By that, I establish my body with the role of a carrier, one that is inscribed with unique, complicated histories that can be creatively elucidated through non-verbal performative means. My methods emphasize process, performative gesture and documentation. I experiment with various conceptual, choreographic and performance recording techniques that combine dance, objects, painting, and space that are mediated through various digital apparatuses. Through these materialities and performative strategies, I explore themes of movement, temporalities and embodied experiences. With an attention to the articulation of gestures, I investigate how gestural inscriptions migrate and transition while seeking to study their marginality, (im)materiality and (in)visibility as they cross boundaries of media, bodies, time and space. Poetically and critically, I consider the interrelations between performative action and inscription, and I address the emergence of the body as an archival site through which the very essence of gesture passes.
Nava Waxman
Contact
Education
2018 - MFA in Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada
2007 - Toronto School of Art
1999 - BA Social Sciences & Communication - OPEN University, Tel-Aviv
Awards\Grants\Fellowship
2020 - Thesis nomination, Graduate program, York University Visual Arts & Art History
2019 Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's SSHRC
2019 - CIBC Graduate Research Grant nomination
2018 Ontario Art Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2017 Ontario Art Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2016 Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant Recipient
residency
2019 - The Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence, Toronto
Selected Solo exhibition
2020 Nava Waxman: Variations on Broken Lines, Gales Gallery, York University
2019 Nava Waxman: Choreographed Marks, The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
2018 Nava Waxman: Polyphonies, Sheldon Rose Gallery, Toronto
2016 Nava Waxman: Untitled wall, WallSpace Gallery, Ottawa
2015 Nava Waxman: Traces - JulieM Gallery, Toronto
2014 Nava Waxman: In between Rituals - WallSpace Gallery, Ottawa Canada
2013 Nava Waxman: Personifications - JulieM Gallery, Toronto, Canada Catalogue
2009 Reveries, Encaustic works, Engine Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Inscriptions, Work on Paper, Pennello Gallery, Cleveland
2008 Daily Habit, The Blue Dot Gallery, Toronto
selected Group Exhibition
2020 WayMark, The MFA\PhD 2Yrs Group Exhibition, The Varley Art Gallery of Markham
2019 Between States - Special Project Gallery, York University
2017 Space Within, CONTACT Photography Festival, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto
2015 Migratory Cyclical, JulieM Gallery, Toronto
2012 Contemporary Women Artists XVI – Women’s Caucus for Art, St. Louis, USA
2011 Anong Beam & Nava Waxman: Connections Within Context, Earl Court Gallery, Hamilton.
Consequential Fusion: Message In Wax - Art Centre Morro Bay, CA
Diary Pieces,The Art House, Wakefield, England
Leave Light On - Hovinkartano Art Centre for the Arts, Hauho, Finland
2007 The Legacy of the Circle -McKay Art Centre, Markham Canada
Teaching experience
2019 Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto (Photography)
2019 Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto (History Of Design)
Artistic Residency
2020 - The laboratory for artistic intelligence, Toronto
2020 - Saagajiwe - The Creative Native Project, The Centre for Indigenous Research Creation
Research Presentation
2020 PRACTICE / PRATIQUE The 14th Annual Concordia University Art History Graduate Student's
Association (AHGSA) Graduate Symposium, Montreal. AHGSA Concordia University
2020 Hindsight 20/20: Context & Meaning XIX , The Graduate Visual Culture Association 19th
annual graduate conference, Queen’s University
Collaborative projects
2019 - Variations on Blue Gestures, Nava Waxman, Cinzia Cavalieri, Mahsa Alikhani, Sebastian
Oreamuno
2018 Knowing River - Body Notes , Sheldon Rose Gallery, Ronley Teper, Lo Bil, Nava Waxman
2017 Three strings - Interventions, Alfred Institute, Tel-Aviv Uri Levinson, Adaya Godlevesky and Shlomit
Carmeli
2016 Transitions, Adaya Godlevsky - Petach-Tikva Museum of art, Israel
Elements Of Chance - Interventions, Draw To Perform Symposium, CrowsNest Gallery 2016,
London
2016 Möbius, Draw to Perform, OCAD University, Toronto.
At your Sonic, Sound to Visual, Tomoki Takeuchi & Paris zhang & Nava Waxman, Toronto
Publication
Waymark: MFA Visual Art Digital Publication, York University, 2020
Gateways to Drawing by Stephen Gardner. Nava Waxman: Elements Of Chance , 2018 Thames &
Hudson
Untitled Wall, Nava Waxman, 2016
Traces: Poems to Paintings By James Wagner and Nava Waxman, Ceratonia Siliqua Press, 2015
Black With Sin, Calmly with Virtue, By Seth Apter, North light books, 2011