This spring, I have been working on a few projects with with fellow artist and mother Rebecca Howell! We are coordinating a small group show at Grace UMC called “The Stories We Share” featuring our newest paintings and co-curating a show of emerging artists for the Chris White Gallery called “Let Me Tell You”.
These exhibitions are presented in partnership with the Taking. Up. Space. Initiative. Women across the globe are exhibiting artwork in the month of May with the support of the Artist/Mother Network and the Thrive Artist Network. There are over 80 exhibitions taking place this year. See more from this initiative by viewing the #takingupspace2022 hashtag on Instagram.
The stories revealed in this exhibition by Nanci Hersh, Jen Hintz Eggers and Rebecca Howell relate to the cycle of caregiving. These three artists explore passage of time, creating and sustaining life, and enduring loss or change. Practices and rituals involved in caregiving can contribute to exhausted bodies and minds, while at the same time, experiencing profound love. The artwork featured here manifests this cycle as meditative tributes, layering natural imagery with lived experience, and painting the darkest fears tucked in the corners of the mind. All lovingly created to share our stories in community.
Nanci Hersh’s work intends to reveal the transitory nature of being. Cascading fragmented patterns, gestural marks, and assorted textures are part of her visual vocabulary to capture an internal and somatic landscape of our experiences.
After seeing anatomical illustrations of the human mammary gland, Jen Hintz Eggers visualized the structures becoming a flower with a stem-like flow of milk. Her series “Mammary Flowers” encompasses a 24-hour period with a painting for each feeding when nursing her infant.
Through layered brushwork Rebecca Howell depicts the lurking fear of loss that has occupied her mind since becoming a parent. She uses the physical nature of paint, combined with well known myths and legends, to process this fear through paint.
The opening reception is free and open to the public, as part of the Wilmington Art Loop. The exhibition is on view and open to the public Monday through Thursdays, 8:30 - 2:00 until May 31st
Friday, May 6th, 5:00-7:00 PM
Grace United Methodist Church, 900 N. Washington St., Wilmington, DE 19801
This open-call exhibition, curated by Jen Hintz Eggers and Rebecca Howell, features emerging female-identifying and non-binary artists participating in group storytelling. Space will be held for the voices and stories of those often relegated to secondary roles in patriarchal society and traditional gallery structures. The story an artist wishes to share and the manner in which they tell it is their choice. These stories will be shown, heard, honored, and revered in this space.
The opening receptions are free and open to the public, as part of the Wilmington Art Loop. The exhibition is on view and open by appointment by calling or texting 302-475-0998 until June 24th
Friday, May 6th, 5:00-8:00 PM, with musical performance by Rebel Natty
Friday June 3rd, 5:00-800 PM, with musical performance by Sug Daniels
Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801