Nancy Azara

Annunziata Jean Azara (October 13, 1939 – June 27, 2024) was an American sculptor. Her work involved sculpture using 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's other art pieces involved collages, banners, prints where she continuously reshaped the elements and materials. Azara worked and carved in wood for many years because of the presence and symbolism inherent in trees and because the metaphor of the tree is a "stand-in" for herself. This statement and representation of tree as “self” and woman was timely in a world which is losing touch with its primal essence.