By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
Frequent jaunts to a bucolic local preserve with my black lab, Dini, and Jack Russell terrier, Maggie are opportunities to embrace small moments and reflect on bigger questions around love, loss, joy, fear and longing. Snapshots from our walks together at nearby White Clay Creek Park are the inspiration for my mixed media paintings.
I work with spray paint and my assorted collection of nets to create undulating stenciled patterns to map out the surface of the canvas or Tyvek®, a synthetic material. This is the basis for subsequent layers of paint and mixed media. at follows is an ongoing back and forth between the emergence of the dog and water. Fluid and entangled lines, disrupted net patterns, reflections and shadows surround and immerse the dog to allow the tangible and intangible to coexist in space.
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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