Aleah Zerance
Aleah Zerance (b. Harrisburg, PA) is an Italian-American painter known for her reminiscent depictions of everyday life. Her work delves into the quiet poetry of landscapes and interior spaces, exploring themes of memory, nostalgia, and impermanence. With a sensitivity to light and atmosphere, Zerance captures the ephemeral beauty of moments that linger in the mind but remain just out of reach — a delicate interplay of presence and absence that defines the human experience. She has been represented by the Erie Art museum in their 100th annual spring show and has been accepted into residencies in Galway, Ireland and Naples, Italy. The artist lives and works in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Artist Statment
My work explores the emotional residue of familiar settings. I’m not drawn to grand gestures or dramatic moments, but to what lingers after they pass. A room just emptied, a glance not returned, a place waiting without urgency. These aren’t scenes arranged for effect, but situations lived through and remembered.
Painting is my way of acknowledging these situations as I’ve always found the quieter moments to be the most revealing. This has influenced me to work from photographs, memories, and always what’s in front of me.
If there’s loneliness in the work, it isn’t sorrowful. It is a necessary friend, It lives in the distance between events, between people, between how long it takes to get from point A to point B. I return to that distance not to resolve it, but to recognize it as something shared.