Visionary Projects Presents:
The Art of Being, The Memory of Becoming

Bridgette Duran, Mary Royall, Studio NAWA, Xavier Allen

March 26 - May 13

OPENING RECEPTION
124 Forsyth St
Wednesday March 26th
6-8pm

Visionary Projects is thrilled to announce the opening of their new exhibition, The Art of Being, The Memory of Becoming. A group exhibition exploring the preservation of memory and transformation featuring the works of four emerging female artists and designers: Bridgette Duran, Mary Royall, studio NAWA, and Xavier Allen. This exhibition invites viewers to explore the delicate simplicities of storytelling through synesthesia gradients, organic wall reliefs and sculptures – with an interplay between one's present experience and the evolution of retrospection.

Inspired by the philosophical wisdom of Ram Dass, the exhibition title reflects duality — the immediate experience of presence alongside the continuous journey of transformation through time. Each featured artist approaches this theme through their unique lens, creating a rich tapestry of visual mediation on being and becoming.

Select Works from Show

  • Surface Chair

    by studio NAWA

    Mirror polished stainless steel

  • Morphic Field - Sandstone

    by Xavier Allen

    Polymer gypsum, marble dust
    2025

  • Horizon Line Series

    by Mary Royall

    Series of 20 individual paintings
    Oil on primed paper
    2025

  • Lipstick

    by Bridgette Duran
    30 x 30”
    Canvas, Fabric, Plaster, Acrylic, Polymer
    2025

[BIO] Mary Royall offers a collection of 20 paintings that translate personal narratives into visual form. Each work is based on a memory associated with a horizon line, gathered from friends, family, and strangers. Royall's process involves immersing herself in these shared remembrances, then translating their emotional resonance into color and form. The resulting series creates a collective meditation on how landscape anchors our most significant moments.

[BIO] studio NAWA bridges the digital and physical realms with "Surface Chair," a design experiment that challenges our understanding of materiality. Beginning in the digital space—where all objects are composed of points, lines, and infinitely thin surfaces—Studio NAWA brings these virtual constructs into physical reality. Through meticulous craftsmanship, a single sheet of stainless steel is forged and polished into a form that continuously dialogues with its surroundings, reflecting and deriving its identity from the space it inhabits.

[BIO] Xavier Allen presents sculptures that translate energy, natural forces, and time into physical forms. Their abstract works flow intuitively along defined edges while expanding into multiple mediums, capturing the moment when ephemeral forces crystallize into tangible expressions.

[BIO] Bridgette Duran presents works that emerge from a deeply physical creative process. Her pieces begin with stretching and draping materials across the floor, yet are conceptually rooted in the invisible electromagnetic fields that surround all matter. Duran's micro-studies visualize the vibrational essence of our universe, rendering tangible the subtle energies that connect all living beings and objects.