Work Details
Roundabout 21-7
2021
acrylic birch
36 X 48
Inventory ID: # 3320
About Howard Hersh
Howard Hersh has spent his creative career exploring the physical structure of art and the effect those structures have on our perceptions. His works play on the tensions between the physical and illusionary worlds and encourage the viewer to move freely within them.
A full time studio artist for 35 years, he was born and raised in Los Angeles, and developed a professional practice in Santa Fe, NM. He now lives and works in San Francisco. Over time, Hersh's work has ranged from organic imagery to geometric, employing oil, acrylic, encaustic, drawing, printmaking, and woodworking.
Howard Hersh is a third generation artist who has exhibited his work in 60 solo shows and 200 group exhibitions throughout the country. His work is also featured in prominent public spaces in the United States, Japan, China, Indonesia, and Africa.
Artist Statement
My work has always had an overarching theme of 'No Separation'. Whether it's been combining imagery, mediums, genres, palettes, or styles, I work towards illustrating an interconnected and harmonious world. Currently, structure is what my work is all about. I employ it as imagery and also as the form itself. That is, I'm building structures that are part of the painting. I'm creating illusionistic space as well as real space, coming off the wall. Using structure as a metaphor, it's so ubiquitous it's used as a noun and a verb.