ON EXHIBIT
HERMINE FORD: from here and from away
Opening: August 9th at 2 PM
five decades of paintings and drawings inspired by Dunvegan
“To my eye, the pebbles collected in my studio exist independently of their conventional context—the sky, the water, the beach, the sand, the seaweed, the tidal shifts, all the conventional elements that define “beach pebble.”
In my work the identity of these original objects become obscure to the casual observer, and I never identify them publicly as such. I do not want to limit the image to “a picture of a stone.” I want the identity of the image to be open-ended for the viewer, including myself, to experience it as ever-changing, able to morph into other associations. “
“[…] this image became, unintentionally, a very abstract image. This is how I first realized that the difference between what is commonly labelled “abstract” and what is called “realistic” is a false distinction.”
Hermine Ford (b. 1939, New York, NY) works and lives in New York, NY, and Nova Scotia, Canada. She holds a BA from Antioch College (1962), following her education at Yale School of Art and Architecture (1960-1961). Solo exhibitions include: Nathalie Karg Gallery (2024), Furnace-Art on Paper Archive (2022), New York Studio School (2019), Outlet Fine Art (2014), Steven Amedee (2011), and Pratt Institute in Rome, Italy (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: JJ Murphy Gallery (2024), James Barron Art (2023), and Cincinnati Museum of Art (2021). In 2018, she became an elected member of the National Academy of Design. Her work can be found many prominent public collections including Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Hood Museum at Dartmouth, Hanover, Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven among others.