By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
In Coast, I was drawn to the meeting place between land, sea, and sky—the space where edges dissolve and everything feels in flux. The painting moves between structure and surrender, echoing the natural rhythm of tides and the shifting light that defines a shoreline. Threads of deep color anchor the piece, while soft veils of peach, coral, and aqua drift across the surface, inviting a quiet sense of wonder.
It’s about the beauty of transition—how boundaries blur, how what’s solid becomes fluid, and how we find ourselves somewhere between being grounded and letting go.
Nanci Hersh is a mixed-media artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores how personal experience intersects with collective memory, and how moments of change, rupture, and renewal take form through material, process, and repetition. Through layered surfaces and tactile constructions, her work traces a process of discovery and transformation, where meaning accumulates through making and unexpected connections.
Hersh has exhibited nationally at venues including the Delaware Contemporary, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York, the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, and the Monmouth Museum in New Jersey. She is the recipient of three Purchase Awards from the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and three Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grants. Her work is held in public and corporate collections including Johnson and Johnson and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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