Nancy Azara
| Nancy Azara | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 Brooklyn, NY |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater |
Empire State College Finch College |
| Known for |
Sculpture Collage |
| Movement | Feminist Art Movement |
| Website | nancyazara |
Nancy Azara (born October 13, 1939) is an American sculptor. 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.
Azara was born in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of Finch College, NY; Empire State College, SUNY and also studied at the Art Students League of New York and at the Lester Polakoff Studio of Stage Design.
After graduating from Finch, she became a costume designer for the theatre. Known for her artwork that encompasses feminism, healing and individual connection to the divine, she developed her political views and signature style as a part of the 1970s feminist art movement in the United States. She was included in the feminist publication Heresies and most recently in the Women's Art Journal
In 1979, Azara co-founded a feminist art school, The New York Feminist Art Institute 1979-1990 with Miriam Schapiro, Carol Stronghilos, Irene Peslikis, Lucille Lessane and Selena Whitefeather. Azara says, “It was our intent to examine the expression of many of the issues relating to gender, self and identity in art. For my first workshop there, I devised a way to share my experience of recording images and ideas in a class called Consciousness- raising, Visual Diaries, Art Making.”
Azara recently exhibited her work I am the Vine, You are the Branches at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn Heights, NY and Of leaves and vines . . . A shifting braid of lines at SACI Gallery in Florence, Italy. Azara has been included in notable exhibitions such as the traveling exhibition in 2006, How American Women Artists Invented Post-Modernism. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
In 2004, she was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton, NJ to create a piece that honored the doctors’ service. The work stands 28 ft. (total) long x 6.5 ft. high x 8in. deep and is in a long corridor near both the operation room and the emergency room of the hospital.
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