By
Nanci Hersh
Piece description from the artist
Weight/Wait was born from the practice of returning to water, sitting, watching, and learning to be patient with what cannot yet be resolved. The image moves the way a pond moves: spiraling outward from a turbulent center, with koi threading through nets and webs that catch the minutiae of living. Written into the composition in the artist's own hand, the title holds a double meaning, the burden we carry and the act of stillness itself, suggesting that waiting, practiced long enough, becomes its own kind of release.
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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