Maxi’s Wall/Fierce Gatherings
Nancy Azara

January 8 – February 2, 2007

Maxi’s Wall, Azara’s 10’ x 12’ x 3’ monumental work consists of a powerful group of twenty forms. Through forms, symbols, colors and a stunning combination of materials and techniques - carved and painted wood, aluminum, gold, palladium leaf and encaustic - the artist evokes the spirit of African, Asian and Native American art often based in the context of ritual practice or ceremony. Holland Cotter has described similar work of Azara’s as having a “Byzantine or South Asian splendor” (The New York Times). The tall, vertical forms in this most recent work, inscribed with organic shapes and markings, suggest a group of human forms – a tribe or symbolic community.

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