"Hermine Ford: Follow Me" opens at Nathalie Karg Gallery
Installation view (L to R): Spring Forward (414-2021), 2021, Untitled (403-2020), 2020, Untitled (466-2023), 2023. Photo: Nathalie Karg Gallery
Hermine Ford: FOLLOW ME
September 4 - October 12, 2024
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 4, 6-8pm
Related events:
September 7 at 11a: Exhibition walk through with Hermine Ford and Nora Griffin
September 30 at 1p: Hermine Ford with Tom McGlynn on The Brooklyn Rail
Nathalie Karg Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street
NYC
Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present HERMINE FORD: FOLLOW ME, an exhibition featuring eight works the artist on view from September 4 through October 12, 2024.
Informed by the landscape of Novia Scotia, where she spends her summers, and her time in Rome, Ford’s visceral, colourful abstract patterns, mosaics, and textures evoke the natural and urban world as it stands and its disintegration and renewal. She works primarily with materials derived from the earth, such as wood, stone, minerals, pigment, and metals. Dedicated to reconceptualising raw materials, Ford challenges viewers to reflect on how the past translates into the present day in a constantly changing and adapting world. Her work seeks answers to the question: What is an artist, and who can create art? Through recycled materials, texture, and colour, Hermine Ford’s work insists that Nature is the world’s original, guiding artist withstanding time.
Ford describes her practice as cyclical; “all we are, all we see, is nature. Things grow. Or are made. Maybe by a human being, maybe by a bird or a bee. We make objects of all sizes, buildings, art. Then they get old, sometimes are torn down, even made to disappear, by water, wind, war, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or fire. Or they fall from their weight or are pushed over, stepped on, shot at, blown up, or smashed. Yet, the pure material remains. The materials have been reused through the ages. Architecture, painting, and sculpture are made from these raw and recycled materials. An artist's eye and hand move over the materials while at the beach, visiting an Italian city, or in the studio, remembering them as they used to be and rearranging them: the broken buildings, the stones, the tiles, the pigments. In my work, I'm reimagining the past, making it present.”