ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nazare Feliciano is an American multidisciplinary artist born in a small town in Portugal. She immigrated to the U.S. in her youth because living as a woman artist in Portugal was inconceivable to her. She graduated with a Master of Fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies of Fine and Performing Arts, from Florida Atlantic University. Her thesis: Bodily Knowledge in Dance Transferred to the Creation of Sculpture, captures the connection of bodily knowledge to the making of art. Working with clay, her artworks stretch the medium to unconventional forms, with sensuality and tension. Her Ladle Vagina series infuses bodily knowledge to clay form in a most visceral way: with inner and outer feeling.
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