Hermine Ford

Hermine Ford (b. 1939, New York, NY) works and lives in New York, NY and Nova Scotia, Canada. She holds a B.A. from Antioch College (1962), following her education at Yale School of Art and Architecture (1960-1961). Hermine Ford’s past exhibitions include solo exhibitions at 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), and group exhibitions at 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.

 

“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 down from their own weight, or are pushed over, stepped on, shot at, blown up, smashed. Yet, the pure material remains. The materials are reused down through the ages. Architecture and painting and sculpture are made from these raw and recycled materials. An artist's eye and hand moves over the materials while at the beach, or visiting an Italian city, or in the studio, remembers them as they used to be and rearranges them: the broken buildings, the stones, the tiles, the pigments. In my work I'm re-imagining the past, making it present.”

—Hermine Ford