“These sculptures address connection through time and space. They are self-portraits of Nava as lineal artifacts, indicating that our features are sacred living archives of the eternal connections, DNA, and histories that survive through us. Throu
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Crown
Purple rain, 2020
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Ground
Magenta-grey twins, 2022 Acrylic & oil on canvas 66 x 72 inch
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Broken Vessels
“Touching the Sacred” body of works maps a process of awakening through multiple dimensions of connection. Opens with a series of works that reveal an intimate observation of the relationship between my body and what I consider divine energy. I seek
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Touching the sacred
The central theme in my work is the fragility of the human condition. In my work, I touch and examine our awareness to the vulnerability we all experience in our daily lives. Emulating a memory of the body and its fragility, I am building the skin i
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / "Unfolding", The Jewish Museum of New Jersey
Coming Together, 2018
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Written in Skin
Hanging Together, 2017
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Cocoons/Songbirds
Round, 2016
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Eat
Breath, 2014
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Touch
Stephanie reflected, 2011
       
     
Nava Gidanian-Kagan Selected Work Page / Trio