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Jonathan Navy

Jonathan Navy earned a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1998, he has taught a variety of digital art courses at Washington University, including Fashion Illustration and Digital Lab for the fashion design program, as well as courses in the communication design program and in the Sam Fox School’s Collaborative Technology Center. Previously he worked with software developers HSC, Meta Tools/ MetaCreations. and Live Picture to develop several major award-winning graphic software programs over a six-year period. These included plug-ins for all of the Adobe products as well as several stand-alone products such as Bryce and Live Picture. Navy has exhibited his work at Mad Art Gallery, and he created the graphics for the poster Commemorating the Papal Visit to the United States in 2000, as well as the lead American Olympic poster for the Torino games in 2006. He loves digital illustration and painting, and continues to collaborate with artists, mostly in 3D modeling and animation, while researching new technologies and their integration into these multiple disciplines.
Headshot of Jonathan Navy.
Jonathan Navy
Senior Lecturer
Email
jrnavy@wustl.edu
Office
Steinberg 03
Box
1031-104-001

Work by Jonathan Navy

A figure in religious garb holding a sculpture of the crucified Christ in both hands.

Poster created for Fine Art Ltd. in St. Louis with Don Wiegand (sculptor) and Columbine Press. Won the 2000 International Gallery of Superb Printing Silver Award for superb craftsmanship.
"PEACE" in a raised, white serif font with soft shadows in the center of the composition: below it, an eagle soars, tracing out the colors of the Olympic Rings. Below this is the text "THROUGH THE Olympic Games", the Olympic Rings logo and supplementary text — "Artist Shan Gray" — all centered.

Lead American Olympic Poster Fine Art Ltd, the official licensee of Olympic art in the United States, commissioned Jonathan Navy to design one of six American posters commemorating the 2006 Olympic Games in Turino. This poster was presented as the lead poster to the International Olympic Committee. The limited edition poster is included in the private art collections of several world leaders and select members of the International Olympic Committee. Quoted from Jack Scharr, Owner Fine Art, LTD. Chesterfield, MO.
Abstract composition of white, brown, yellow, and red hues with shadows scattered across. The colors are rendered in a brush-like texture, as if thick paint.

Digital image from a series on language.
A glossed, fleshy form, the top clipped with wire, against a dark background image of a similarly fleshy form with blood vessels.

Excerpt from an animation made in collaboration with Dr. Ralph G. Dacey, neurological surgeon at Barnes Hospital., June–August 2012

Several examples of brain aneurysm and how they are treated and repaired; modeled, textured and animated in 3D by Jonathan Navy.
A dark pink, fleshy form between a metal apparatus that appears from the top right. The background texture suggestive of a human brain.

Excerpt from an animation made in collaboration with Dr. Ralph G. Dacey, neurological surgeon at Barnes Hospital., June–August 2012

Several examples of brain aneurysm and how they are treated and repaired; modeled, textured and animated in 3D by Jonathan Navy.