“Nancy Azara has developed a signature vocabulary of materials (carved wood, paper), colors (red, black, silver, gold) and forms (human, tree and organic in-betweens), which she deployed in a variety of complex and simple sculptural formats in her recent exhibition… Azara coats the raw material with pigment and/or metallic leaf so that its natural color and grain are concealed. 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.”
Janet Koplos; Art in America New York City, January 2000.
Nancy Azara has exhibited her sculpture and book art in New York City throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her spiritually infused work has been shown in one woman exhibitions at Donahue/ Sosinski Art in New York City and at the Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon, the SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy, A.I.R. Gallery in 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 many group shows.
Azara has recently written a book, Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, published in December 2002 (Red Wheel/ Weisers) and an essay, “In Pursuit of the Divine” for The Kensington and Winchester Papers: Painting, Sculpture and the Spiritual Dimension, 2003 (Onerios Books). She was a founder of the New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFAI) in 1979, where she was on the board and taught a workshop called “Consciousness Raising, Visual Diaries, Art Making” for many years. She has been a visiting artist in both 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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