Votives, Sculptures by Nancy Azara

DATE: Thursday, April 28, 2022/ Show Opening
TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
PLACE: Carter Burden Gallery
548 West 28th Street, #534, New York, NY 10001
Carter Burden Gallery presents Votives, Sculptures by Nancy Azara

In Votives: Sculptures by Nancy Azara, the artist presents carved and painted sculptures from 2010 to the present that record a journey of ideas and memories around the unseen and the unknown, reflecting on
time and mortality through facets of her personal history. Azara’s use of real tree limbs and vines alongside arboreal imagery act as stand-ins for her own presence and as expressions of the dogged persistence of life. Processes of pressing and rubbing, cutting, and pasting, scraping and gouging are evident throughout the finished images and objects. Azara states, “I often balance instinctive marks against more considered decisions, arriving at a dynamic interplay between the deliberate manipulation
of materials and the operation of chance.” Along with her sculptural work, the exhibition features a heraldic crow banner hung in our public installation space On the Wall, depicting birds’ plumage, which
can be exhibited indoors or outdoors.