By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
Like the flotsam and jetsam that wash ashore entangled and intertwined, I am interested in our interconnectedness and how our individual stories are part of something larger than self. I have always found my center in and near water growing up near the Jersey shore, living surfing in Hawai’i for many years, and now, our backyard pond is a sanctuary for me to sit, meditate, practice yoga, and paint.
Life in and around our pond, as well as, nearby White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania where we hike with our dogs is continually moving and changing with the weather, the seasons, as well as moment to moment. Constantly in flux, with life shifting above and below the surface, nets, webs, and nests are created with mixed media and found objects to hold, filter, and catch the minutiae of our 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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