Nancy Azara
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Nancy Azara is a sculptor whose studio is in New York City. Her work is carved, assembled and highly painted wood with gold and silver leaf and encaustic. The wood, the paint and the layers that make up the sculpture record a journey of memory, images and ideas. Her work has been shown in New York City, throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her spiritually infused sculpture is carved, assembled, and painted wood with gold and silver leaf and encaustic. Some of her sculptures have also been cast in bronze and gilded, appropriate for indoor or outdoor placement.

One woman exhibitions have been at Donahue/ Sosinski Art in New York City, the Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the SACI Gallery in Florence, Italy, the A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, the Tweed Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, the Rudolph E. Lee Gallery in Clemson, N.C., and the Gwinnett Fine Arts Center in Duluth, Georgia, In addition, she has been a part of 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).

“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.

We are pleased to represent her work at Tri-Art Gallery, and delighted that we could bring such world-class art to this region.