Nancy Azara
Silence (2008) is about beautiful “pretty words” which women often use to protect themselves, to shroud the real meaning of what they want to say. The sculpture is a portrait of the mouth in speech.
Hand/Palm (2018) is made from three separate pieces of wood. Two battered and broken pieces which are shattered inside and only held together by its “outer skin” (birch bark). The other panel has in the center middle a log from a young tree with a carved small open red hand pressed into it which says to the viewer “Stop, here I am.”
Nancy Azara is a sculptor, a feminist artist, working primarily in wood, mixed media collage and prints. Her sculpture is made of carved, gilded, assembled wood, while her collages are composed of mylar, paper, paint and the occasional found wood object. Azara’s densely layered art engages with memory, personal history and the cyclical nature of time.
Nancy Azara’s work has been shown extensively, most recently in a solo show The Meeting of the Birds at Kaaterskill Gallery, Hunter Village, NY, Ink: New Prints at Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Curated by Laura G. Einstein, and Labyrinths of the Mind at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, NY. Upcoming: Solo show at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY in 2020. She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art available through Red Wheel/Weiser. She teaches workshops and classes in art making and meditation.
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