Nadya Volicer

Nadya Volicer received a BFA in Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art and a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has created site-specific works for many spaces, including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA and Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and permanent installations at Sheridan College in Sheridan, WY and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. She has been awarded several residencies including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE and the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC, and received a Pollack-Krasner Foundation award. She lives and works in Boston, MA.

Whether found, passed down, or leftover, scraps tell a story of time passing. Off-cuts from a process give evidence of method and materiality. Remnants of a life recall memories and mortality. I assemble these oft-forgotten fragments to turn time into something more tangible.

With scraps of wood, paper, and fabric, I make sculptures, room-sized installations, and works for the wall that reference portraiture and tapestry but often spill onto the floor.

My current work draws heavily upon photographs from my family archive, which I translate into large-scale textile works through appliqué and embroidery using secondhand clothing, fabric scraps and domestic artifacts. I layer images to conjure not a memory, but the feeling of memory: hazy, uncertain and inscrutable. In this way, I let the past dwell in the present.

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