Don Hershman
Out of Line #4 2026
36 x 24 in.
$7,200.00
The Award-Winning San Francisco-based artist brings four bodies of work together in a New York solo exhibition tracing the evolution of line as structure, emotion and identity
Artist Don Hershman will present = OUT OF LINE =, a solo exhibition opening Thursday, October 1st, 2026 and runs through Tuesday, October 20th, 2026, at One Art Space in Tribeca. Curated by MaryAnn Giella McCulloh 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.
Artist(s): Don Hershman
Title: Out of Line #4
Medium: Acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas
Date: 2026
Dimensions: 36″ x 24″