tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302177877553177632024-03-13T06:06:22.721-07:00Nancy AzaraNancy Azarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08669245443596154800noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330217787755317763.post-23680944727428577202018-10-29T14:36:00.000-07:002018-10-29T14:36:26.761-07:00New Work/ Scrolls<a data-flickr-embed="true" data-context="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/44590399095/in/album-72157702716743595/" title="Azara_7"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1957/44590399095_cb2d2cf67f_q.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Azara_7"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script><a data-flickr-embed="true" data-context="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/44590402805/in/album-72157702716743595/" title="Azara_6"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1905/44590402805_96e7c2936c_q.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Azara_6"></a><script async 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src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1976/44590406415_12f50a6759_q.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Azara_2"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script><a data-flickr-embed="true" data-context="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/44590408975/in/album-72157702716743595/" title="Azara_1_corrected"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1953/44590408975_e366455ef0_q.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Azara_1_corrected"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Nancy Azarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08669245443596154800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330217787755317763.post-10208607513956865342018-10-29T14:33:00.003-07:002018-10-29T14:38:56.172-07:00Sandal and Crow Series<a data-flickr-embed="true" data-context="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/44590435105/in/album-72157674784466568/" title="Sandal and Crow 1"><img 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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This sculpture, assembled, carved, painted and gilded wood is inspired by traditional totems, especially those of Native American artists, so that it is about family, present and past, about nature and its relationship to healing and about a wisdom gleaned from a spiritual reach into the unknown. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have chosen an eagle feather to be central to this work. Eagles fly the highest in the sky and are revered because of this. The four feathers are from one feather, traced and carved into old barn wood and gilded with gold leaf, four times for the four directions. This eagle feather was given to me by an Ojibway artist friend many years ago. It has since been a talisman for me and hangs in an honored place in my studio. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tibetan Buddhist master Pema Chodron writes "All of us are eagles who have forgotten how to fly." This sculpture evokes this desire, communicating with the eagle trying to remember "how to fly."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Central to the work is a vibrant red leaf from a catalpa tree at the "heart." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below that are family history masks, one imposed upon the other like individual Etruscan death masks all together, ancestors in a stack, one layered over the other, all my relations. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <u>Four Gold Feathers</u> there are also fertility symbols such as seed forms; a spiral, a vision quest to somewhere; and a link to the future with my granddaughter's hands, traced and carved into the silvery whitish tall posts which frame the work on either side, some in dark shadow, some in shrouded light, and one gilded with gold like the feathers. </span></div>
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<br />Nancy Azarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08669245443596154800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330217787755317763.post-28986667380612615952012-12-21T10:15:00.001-08:002012-12-21T10:15:17.447-08:00Nancy Azara's photostream<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/5989286529/in/photostream/" title="Twins" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6124/5989286529_15665fee11_s.jpg" alt="Twins" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/5989845064/in/photostream/" title="Third Moon" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6010/5989845064_c573ea8ac7_s.jpg" alt="Third Moon" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65848225@N08/5989830072/in/photostream/" title="DSCN3314" style="display: block; 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Here are some photos from the talk I gave at the Kleinert / James Center for the Arts at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Wonderful audience and great Q & A!</div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Nancy Azara</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> is a sculptor whose work has been reviewed in the <i>New York Times, Art In America, Art Forum, and Sculpture Magazine</i>, and has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of <u>Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art</u>, (Red Wheel Weiser).</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div>Nancy Azarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08669245443596154800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330217787755317763.post-91400067065487286972011-09-12T12:15:00.000-07:002011-09-12T12:15:47.870-07:00Essay by Lilly Wei about my recent sculpture "Third Moon"<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Nancy Azara’s poetic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third Moon</i> is the most recent edition to what might be called a trilogy, at least so far, more might be coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is visually and conceptually related to two earlier works, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dawn/Light</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leaf Altar for Nunzia (1913-2004)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter two are memorials, as is this one, although each in its own way. When Azara made <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third Moon</i>, she was thinking of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, an interrogation of the nature of illusion and reality, of shadows mistaken for substance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Enveloped by a soft nocturnal radiance created by applying white paint over aluminum leaf in combination with encaustic and a touch of color, the nearly monochromatic silver and rose of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third Moon</i>—the same as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dawn/Light</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leaf Altar</i>—is a further instance of what has lately become her palette of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The support, a seven-foot square panel, is of wood and slightly larger than life but not intimidatingly so, the surface delicately carved with images of leaves, branches and pods to create an all-over pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Lilly Wei<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">August, 2011</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Nancy Azarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08669245443596154800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330217787755317763.post-66435424747939087742011-07-11T18:07:00.000-07:002011-07-29T22:34:33.569-07:00Castle Series<div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsguI9TVIkj_p1Cs43YEQlZiXT_9TWRutXpOQQm08GCC_h13ixWrWnTJFJGUep9OcskSSXxx4YaWETihx7fRX9YdyzMMig-y6y6GFPJY2F_i37SZve1Tj2Y2yw335y465GVetoQeqZnw/s1600/email_Springtime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsguI9TVIkj_p1Cs43YEQlZiXT_9TWRutXpOQQm08GCC_h13ixWrWnTJFJGUep9OcskSSXxx4YaWETihx7fRX9YdyzMMig-y6y6GFPJY2F_i37SZve1Tj2Y2yw335y465GVetoQeqZnw/s640/email_Springtime.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">These collages on my mylar were begun last May and June during a residency at the castle in Umbertide, Italy at Civitella Ranieri. They were made during a time when it was cold and rainy everyday and eyen though it was beautiful, it was uncomfortable, damp, chilly, very unpleasant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">They represent a mood, an assault on my body by nature with its relentless late spring rain and chill. Something about Italy with its tradition and history and its beauty juxtaposed by its cruel weather during this time spurred on this work.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">The <strong>Castle Series</strong> is made by rubbing with both water soluble and non-soluble caran dáche oil pastels, on mylar over carverd luan (wood) plates. Taken from the foliage around my studio, I traced the leaves and collaged them on the surface. The wood plates themselves are carved in such a way that their surface resembles tree limbs, trucks and bark as well as leaves. They span from 4 feet, some vertical and some horizontal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Leonie Bradbury, (Director of the Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA) has described my collages as: "mixed media collages drawings seamlessly combining a contemporary printmaker´s aesthetic with organic mark making".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Estos collages se iniciaron el pasado mayo y junio (2010) durante una residencia en el castillo en Umbertide, Italia en Civitella Ranieri. Se hicieron durante una temporada en que hacía frío y llovía todos los días. A pesar de que era hermoso, era incómodo, húmedo, frío y muy desagradable.</span></div><div class="almost_half_cell" closure_uid_h6dxtt="1484"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Representan un estado de ánimo, el asalto a mi cuerpo por la naturaleza con su lluvia incesante y frío a finales de la primavera. Algo en Italia, que con su tradición e historia y su belleza se yuxtapone por su clima cruel durante este tiempo estimulando así este trabajo.</span></div><div class="almost_half_cell" closure_uid_h6dxtt="1484"></div><div class="almost_half_cell" closure_uid_h6dxtt="1484"><span style="color: #4c1130;">La Serie del Castillo se hace con la fricción usando dos tipos de pasteles: de óleo soluble en agua y no soluble caran d´ache, se marcan sobre la madera cincelada en las placas. Tomando muestras de la vegetación alrededor de mi estudio, tracé las hojas y los collage en la superficie. Las placas de madera están tallada de tal manera que su superficie se asemeja a las texturas de un árbol, troncos y corteza, así como las hojas. Que van desde 4 a 8 pies, vertical y horizontal de algunos casos.</span></div><div class="almost_half_cell" closure_uid_h6dxtt="1484"><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Leonie Bradbury, (Director del Colegio Montserrat de la Galería de Arte, Beverly, MA) ha descrito La Serie del Castillo como: " collages mixtos, dibujos a la perfección la combinación de la estética contemporánea de un grabador con la hechura de la marca orgánica. </span><br />
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