Ali Herrmann

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Ali Herrmann developed an early interest in the raw beauty of the natural landscape, the ever-changing seasons and the region’s rich flora and fauna. Like a scientist looking through a microscope, she examines the beauty of natural forms to inform her work. “Mother Nature is the greatest creator, she never gives us just one. Nature just keeps pushing forward, persevering, which Herrmann lets inform and approach her practice.

Herrmann describes her artwork as an attempt to emulate what she feels when she’s in nature: gardening, hiking, watching a sunset, or going on a leisurely bike ride. “You can learn a lot by just walking down the street and noticing the roots of a tree pushing through the cracks in the sidewalk. Nature is the force that is going to prevail, not the sidewalk!” All these observations lead to an idea, which lead to a sketch and then become informative to paintings and prints.

Ali Herrmann is a mixed media painter based in Troy, NY. Raised in the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Herrmann developed an early interest in the raw beauty of the natural landscape, the ever-changing seasons, and the rich flora and fauna of the region.

Throughout her nearly 30-year career as an artist, Herrmann has been awarded multiple grants including the New York State Council for the Arts (2023, 2022); A.R.T. fund, NY (2020); Martha Boschen Porter Fund Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, MA (2019, 2014); and a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant (2017).

She has exhibited widely including Ford Studios, VA; The Arts Center of the Capital Region, NY; Albany Center Gallery, NY; Emerge Gallery, NY; and The Berkshire Museum, MA. Her work is in the permanent collections of RCA Screen Gems Productions, CA; Sony Pictures Entertainment, NY; Red Lion Inn, MA; as well as several private collections. Artist residencies include the Millay Arts, NY (2020); Main Street Arts, NY (2017); and the Vermont Studio Center, VT (2007). She studied Fine Arts at Bennington College, VT, achieving a BFA (1998) in painting and printmaking.