ARTIST STATEMENT

John was raised on a dairy farm in Elizabethtown. After receiving degrees in English and Theology and finding verbal expression frustratingly limiting, he began to seek personal expression through sculpting. The response to his work was immediate and gratifying, and he spent the next decade sculpting and driving taxi in New York City, NY. In 1977 Hertzler returned to Lancaster County to work the family dairy farm and pretty much put sculpting on hold. In 2000, he began to sculpt again in earnest above the heifer pen on the second floor of the bank barn. "It just feels good to be sculpting again," says John. Now semi-retired, he continues to "discover his voice," through his work in alabaster, marble and wood.

RESUME

EDUCATION
1964 BS in English, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
1972 Master in Theology, Union Seminary, New York, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008
Heart Knowledge, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
2006
Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
John Hertzler, New Work, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
2004 John Hertzler and Ruth Bernard, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
1991 Messiah College, Grantham, PA
mid-1970's
Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg, PA
Hagerstown Art Museum, Hagerstown, MD
Pennsylvania State Museum, Art of the State, Harrisburg, PA

COLLECTIONS
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Cognitive Learning Center, Elizabethtown, PA

PRESS RELEASES  click on entry to read

John Hertzler, Elizabethtown College - January 2006
Ruth Bernard, painter, and John Hertzler, sculptor - November 2004