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Email PageMaxi’s Wall/Fierce Gatherings
January 8, 2008- February 2, 2008
Reception: January 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nancy Azara
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StA.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Gallery Artist, Nancy Azara’s solo exhibition, Maxi’s Wall/Fierce Gatherings. The exhibition will be on view in Gallery II from January 8 – February 2, 2007 with an opening reception on Thursday, January 10th, from 6–8 PM. Exhibition essay Fierce Gatherings by Margaret Sheffield.
Maxi’s Wall, Azara’s 10’ x 12’ x 3’ monumental work consists of a powerful group of twenty forms. Through forms, symbols, colors and a stunning combination of materials and techniques - carved and painted wood, aluminum, gold, palladium leaf and encaustic - the artist evokes the spirit of African, Asian and Native American art often based in the context of ritual practice or ceremony. Holland Cotter has described similar work of Azara’s as having a “Byzantine or South Asian splendor” (The New York Times). The tall, vertical forms in this most recent work, inscribed with organic shapes and markings, suggest a group of human forms – a tribe or symbolic community.
Azara’s signature themes of growth and change also characterize this very personal work, as it was inspired by the birth of her granddaughter Maximiliana (Maxi). Formally, the sculpture feels both solidly grounded but also ascends upward as a metaphor for growth. The beautiful combination of more primitive yet highly conscious chisel marks and dazzling juxtapositions of colors caused the critic Janet Koplos to write of Azara’s art making practice: “The result is a certain tension – as if the wood wants to burst out of this jacket – that heightens the expressionism of the carving and coloring” (Art in America).
Nancy Azara has shown her work throughout the U.S. and abroad including solo exhibitions at Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York City, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon, the SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, the Tweed Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery in Clemson, N.C., the Gwinnett Fine Arts Center in Duluth, Georgia and others. Azara has also written a book, Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, (December 2002, Red Wheel). In 1979 She was a founder and director of the New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFAI) where she taught until 1990. She has been a visiting artist in the United States, Europe, and India, most recently at the Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy and at Chikraneketan in South India (state of Kerala).
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