By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
Drawing is how I connect my life to my work literally and figuratively. Lines reach, discover and track our experiences and relationships. This drawing is part of a series called (leaving the) Nest. Drawn from shadows created by a large standing nest/net that perched on found and welded objects like a oversized bird bath, this series refers to what we hold on to and what we let go of. In this case, my older son going off to his freshman year in college.
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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