DON HERSHMAN WILL PRESENT 'OUT OF LINE' EXHIBITION @ ONE ART SPACE IN TRIBECA

 

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Artist Don Hershman will present = OUT OF LINE =, a solo exhibition opening Thursday, October 1st, 2026, at One Art Space in Tribeca. Curated from four distinct bodies of work, the exhibition brings together paintings from The Art of Code Switching (2023), I Am a Barn (2024), Urban Abstraction (2025), and Still/Still (2025) to reveal the evolution of a singular visual language centered on the line. Across barns, city surfaces, still life’s and portraiture, Hershman uses repeated and overlapping lines to build color, rhythm, atmosphere and emotional resonance.

Hershman’s path to = OUT OF LINE = begins with structure. In I Am a Barn (2024), the weathered planks, beams and architectural surfaces of rural barns offered a natural foundation for his developing visual vocabulary. 

Those early paintings transformed agricultural buildings into meditations on resilience, shelter and memory, while establishing the repeated linear marks that would become central to his practice. From there, Urban Abstraction (2025) moved the language into the city, where cropped fragments of walls, garage doors, pavement and graffiti became studies in rhythm, tension and layered surface.

In Still/Still (2025), Hershman turned to everyday objects, using line and color to transform familiar forms into quieter, more meditative compositions. His most recent chapter, The Art of Code Switching (2023), brings that same language to portraiture, applying line to the human figure to explore identity, visibility and perception.

Taken together, = OUT OF LINE = is not just a retrospective, but rather a clear journey of artistic continuity: the story of an artist who has refined one formal element into a broad and expressive language capable of carrying architecture, memory, environment and human experience.

About Don Hershman:

Don Hershman is a San Francisco-based artist who lives a compelling dual life, balancing the concrete position of medicine with the expressive freedom of painting. As a nationally recognized podiatric surgeon, he is known for his innovation, structural focus, and meticulous attention to detail. Those same qualities inform his artistic practice, where the confidence to make decisive marks and navigate complex visual relationships mirrors the demands of surgery.

Working from photographs, Hershman transforms initial drawings through multiple layers of line and color, creating compositions that exist between representation and abstraction. Exploring the interplay of form, memory, and perception, his work balance’s structure and emotion, precision and spontaneity.

Born and educated in Brooklyn and Queens, Hershman credits museum visits through New York City's public schools and the encouragement of his parents for inspiring a lifelong commitment to art. Early encounters with the work of Matisse, Picasso, and Klimt left a lasting impression, fueling a drawing practice that continued throughout his medical career before he dedicated himself more fully to painting in the early 1990s. Since his first exhibition in San Francisco in 1992, he has continuously evolved his practice as a painter.

 Hershman's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the de Young Open in San Francisco and solo exhibitions in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Provincetown. His paintings are held in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.

 For more information, please visit: www.donhershman.com

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ABOUT One Art Space:

One Art Space opened in May 2011 in the heart of Tribeca and has been a distinctive venue for both museum-caliber and emerging artists for 16 years led by co-owner and gallerist MaryAnn Giella McCulloh and Mei Fung, who combine business expertise with art and curatorial skills. Located at 23 Warren Street in New York City, the gallery occupies a versatile ground-level space with a glass façade, offering natural light and an inviting view from the street. This unique and versatile space for exhibitions provides a perfect backdrop for both the artwork and artist to shine.

MaryAnn’s background in creativity stems from her father, Joe Giella, a renowned Batman illustrator hired by Stan Lee, whose artwork featured on two USPS stamps issued in 2006 as part of the DC Comics Superheroes release (The Green Lantern and The Flash). The gallery’s programming mixes storied figures in New York's art scene, most recently Chuck Connelly, Michael Fredo, Purvis Young, Al Diaz, Shepard Fairey, and Andrew Salgado.  Celebrity attendees of previous exhibitions have included Alec Baldwin, Spike Lee, and Ice-T.

One Art Space’s mission is to create a place where the giants of art history and the visionaries of art’s future come together in One Art Space.

For more information, please visit: www.oneartspace.com

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 Photo Courtesy Of Lawlor Media Group