By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
March 2020 the world changed. So did my artwork.
The pandemic has thrown us into a uniquely surreal and voyeuristic world presenting an opportunity for everyone to be their “unmasked” selves—for better or worse.
Zoom changed how we interacted and gave us a new perspective—weirdly intimate, both authentic and contrived at the same time.
With every screenshot captured, I found a different story, a new perspective, and a recognizable silver lining—illuminating the humor, boredom, pathos and beauty that has kept us all connected.
While Ms. Dee may be a dance Teaching Artist, she makes a color statement from head to toe where ever she brings her magic. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to notice that in the Zoom Room her outfit matched the couch.
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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