By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
Eclipse was created during the 2024 total solar eclipse. While it was visible along a narrow track stretching from Texas to Maine, here in Landenberg, PA I was able to view a partial eclipse. The energy and excitement around this phenomenon occurred as I was healing from intense treatment for a diagnosis and was considering how to navigate the balance between dark and light, rest and restoration while keeping my head in a healthy place.
Cascading fragmented patterns, gestural marks and assorted textures are part of my visual vocabulary to capture an internal and somatic landscape of our experiences. The layered textures and patterns unfurl as a tribute: an intention to excavate grace and beauty in our ephemeral lives.
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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