Chisholm Gallery

Chisholm Gallery & CrossPathCulture at Gallery Hirondelle

Father & Son Collections: Past & Present: Paintings + Prints + Drawings + Photography

October 2-3, 2010
1221 Chestnut Ridge Road
Millbrook, NY 12545
(90 miles north of NYC)

John Hersey, Selected Works,
Cannon Hersey, The Silk Route Series
Samson Mnisi & Cannon Hersey, Selected Works on Paper

A two-person exhibition of works on paper by South African artist, Samson Mnisi and American artist, Cannon Hersey. Working in concert, they have brought their art across South Africa and the USA, to the UK, France, Brazil, Austria, and the Netherlands

SAMSON MNISI work reflects his life as a youth, emerging as a man in a post apartheid South Africa. Infused with a tradition of ritual and tribal marking, his work captures the artistry derived from an ancient tradition of Sangoma empowerment symbols. It is these marks on paper, these scribe-like movements, which are now the remnant visuals of a post-colonial existence in his homeland.

CANNON HERSEY finds his work in art making through writing and photography and printmaking. As an artist recording, collaboration becomes the medium he uses to speak to issues of culture, image and idea. Through his work he creates an objective, that gives rise to a unified idea based in co-dependency. Together Mnisi and Hersey have organized large scale exhibitions, chaired discussions and panels on art, and community. They have forged a union founded in the art they make and a need to express a realization of the spaces they individually occupy. Their art and cultural creation challenges the audience to appreciate more, our co-dependency and the differences that make up who we are and where we are from.