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Heart Wall,” the large installation here [from the exhibition: Heart Wall and other works, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY], is made up of some two dozen upright cut wooden slabs and tree trunks, their surfaces feathered with chisel marks and carved with pictographs and shallow niches.  Covered in gold and aluminum leaf and accented with vermillion, they have a Byzantine or South Asian splendor.

 

Holland Cotter; NY Times

 

 

 

Nancy Azara has exhibited her sculpture 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 such as the traveling Rutger’s University exhibition How American Women Artists Invented Post-Modernism, 2006. Most recently, she curated the outdoor sculpture show Paths: Real and Imagined for the Woodstock/Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY; where she made a 12’ x 12’ x 7’ cedar work, Time/Path.

 

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 2007

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