By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
As the years passed the layers of netting multiplied and she began to rely on a different kind of memory. The memory of things she knew but no longer saw.”–Monica Ali, Brick Lane
This piece began with the colors of the vibrant autumn sunsets that filters across the yard and trees outside my studio windows. Layering together fragmented patterns, shapes, and lines to celebrate fleeting moments of beauty and grace. Marking time while reflecting on home family, community, and our interconnectedness to all things seen and unseen.
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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