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).