Nancy Gershman

Born 1958 in Manhasset, L.I., NYI am a third generation painter. But unlike my Viennese father and grandmother, I am the first to dip into a digital tool box, and the first to do art for your sake, and not my own. I opened Art For Your Sake in 2004 as a mecca for digital camera buffs to commission wishful reality from the best of their litter. . Today, I create prescriptive photomontages to heal loss and regrets, mend ruptured relationships and cause positive change in behavior. Specialty areas are bereavement, eating disorders and LGBT acceptance. My first love affair with cutting and pasting was for my college thesis which called for a "biotectural" interior collaged from architectural and gardening magazine clippings. My next big epiphany was 20 years later, when I created a tender series of photo collages for my firstborn's bar-mitzvah. This time, in the absence of the "right photos" (i.e. endearing shots of my son Sam with specific family members or family friends), I simply invented them from existing photos I had in my albums. Using this method, I was able to reunite Sam with his grandmothers, Lola and Ilse, who had since passed away. Influences? The MAGNUM photographers of the 30s, the photo-collages of Jacques Prevert, Po...

Hampshire College, Communications and Design, 1978

"For The Brides of Ed: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Art Therapy | EMDR | Prescriptive Art);" hosted by
2014: The University of Chicago Medical Center
2013: The University of Rochester Medical Center
2013: NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City

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2010: Artist exhibited at Open Source: An Expressive Therapies Digital Media Festival, hosted by Illinois Art Therapy Association (IATA)


2008: "Dreamscaping: The Therapeutic Photomontages of Nancy Gershman." Solo show; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago

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