Artist Portfolio

A showcase of Ari's latest works.

SANespresso

The work represents “globalization” which is the production and distribution of modern goods and services. It is a welcome development for many people in that it offers them access to products that they would not otherwise have. ... And the exposure to foreign cultural goods frequently brings about changes in local cultures, values, and traditions. why I use the San as my representation is that they are the native people of Southern Africa, where I am from. Coffee is commodity that is is consumed across cultures we can all identify with it and the reason why I used a Nespresso machine is that it represents modernization. It’s sad but ancient cultures and traditions are slowly disappearing across the globe.

Change the World By being Haring

This works brings two artists from two generations and combines a powerful statement on One wanting to be somone else.

The Bitcoin King

His Royal Highness

Fuck NWA

Compton Police returning the message

The Rise of Bitcoin

This work by Ari Hersch is a play on French painter Hubert Roberts work, A landscape with Ruins of the round Temple, It showed a statue of Venus which has now been taken down in Ari's Work and replaced with new sculpture representing Bitcoin. And the other monument of Marcus Aurelius has been defaced with graffiti

Just another exploited being

Just another axploited being portrays how Wild animals are being used and exploited to the detriment of their freedom.

I want to break free

I want to break free, the famous words by Freddy Mercury. The work portays a person with a duck tube making the best of a conflict situation.

Where is the love?

The depiction of a young boy, holding a rose and protea, Love and South Africa. A revolution of unity between all who inhabits the land.

Is this what it's come to

Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper
140cm x 100cm

It's no child's play

Its no childs play is portayed in such a way that it would be a mural on a kids bedroom wall. The Bomb and balloons exists has proved to be a diastrous weapon that often kids see and are attracted to the balloons which results in harming the child.

Chevrons condensed

Chevrons condensed is a play on a famous Andy Wahol Pice of the Campbells Tomato soup. This piece by Ari Hersch is putting emphasis on The Chevron Corpoartion and their 2021 oil spill in the San Francisco bay area.

Gucci Hood

A pair opf sneakers hanging on telephone lines or Power lines once was sign to show others where Drugs can be bought back in the hood. A gucci sneaker today is worn by those with money, the elite class and is showing a clash between the old and the new, The poor and the rich.

Let Go

Sometimes we just have to let go.

In the midst of chaos

As kids we often played with water balloons, water pistols. Lets go back to the days when we had fun and did not hate one another.

Think of yourself as a queen, from a long line of royalty

A work that portrays a child's dream.

BEHIND EVERY CHILD THAT BELIEVES IN HIMSELF, IS A PARENT WHO BELIEVED IN THEM FIRST

A work that shows a parents love and belief in their child, and that one can alsway rely on a parent.

He wore a million faces all to hide his own

A work that portays the feeling of wanting to be someone other than yourself.

The mouse job

Mixed Media, Acrylic on Aluminium
96cm x 66cm

Sport has the Power to change the world

Sport has the Power to change worldis a fun portayal of a serious conflict that has inhabited the earch for Centuries. Sport has proven to be a way to break barriers and to create dialogue. Bandminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beachMixed Media, Acrylic on Aluminium
96cm x 66cm

KAWSan Edition 2

KAWS an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs. The KHOI San of Southern Africa meet in the Ari Hersch Work. The San are formidable and incredible hunters. Its a story opf two worlds meeting.

KAWSan Edition 1

Hope

Hope resemble a yopung child standing on top of an armoured vehicle called the Casspir which was used during apartheid.

Ukucabanga

Acrylic & charcoal on canvas
1m x 1m

Can you hear it

Acrylic & Charcoal on canvas
1m x 1m

Life is sweet

acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas
1m x 1m