Artist Feature: Michael Hermesh

Jumping into the New Year, we begin with Michael Hermesh’s new artworks, delivering new acrylic and mixed media critiques of human behavior. 

Whimsy and political commentary shake hands in Hermesh’s artwork. His definition of an artist’s job is to seek truth and portray it. Consequently, the human attempt to capture objective truth – to name it, categorize it and bind it – results in unavoidable subjectivity. 

To our absurd quest, Hermesh advises, “The list of things we know for sure is very small. We cannot be sure of our external reality, and at best our perceptions give us confirmation of our internal narrative.”

The artist continues, “Good art is narrative, (fighting words for some I know), where the outcome is indeterminate. It is not the job of an artist to tell people what to think, it is to see truth and to depict it.”

Find new artwork by Hermesh in the Petley-Jones Gallery as part of our group exhibition, starting January 6th, 2022.