By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
In the process of curating a group show with the theme of nests two things occurred- 1. I found a beautiful nest on the ground when I was walking my dogs. Tufts of white cotton batting were woven into the twigs and leaves. 2. I rediscovered a catalogue a friend had given me years ago with the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly featuring his alla Macchia series of vibrantly colored and patterns from splotches of color in large vessels. Working with both the actual nest and the photos and drawings featured in the catalogue this large Nest painting/drawing evolved.
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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