Stephanie Hirsch
ARTIST NAME
Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.
Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Stephanie Hirsch | Wherever You Go,
April 16th - May 30th, 2026
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present, Wherever You Go, There You Are, a series of beaded works by Stephanie Hirsch exploring emotional patterns and the inevitability of self. In her newest series, Hirsch’s work is a meditation on the patterns we carry, the stories we tell ourselves, and the excuses we make as the same lessons repeat.
The exhibition takes its title from the well-known phrase popularized by Ram Dass, which speaks to the simple truth that external movement cannot free us from our internal landscape. Wherever we travel — geographically, socially, or emotionally — our inner world travels with us. Hirsch’s work examines this internal terrain. Geography changes. Relationships evolve. Status shifts. Yet the deeper structures of the self remain, quietly repeating their patterns until awareness interrupts the cycle.
Gradient color pallets remain central to Hirsch’s practice and emit emotion, holding tension and release, light and shadow, contraction and expansion. Within these compositions, language appears quietly. Phrases such as “The lesson repeats as needed,” and “I am made of all the things the world could not take from me” surface almost like thoughts rising to consciousness. The words do not dominate the image but emerge from it, translating emotional atmosphere into reflection.
ARTIST NAME
Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.
Continuing her long-standing use of beads as symbolic seeds, Hirsch is expanding her practice to large-scale sculptural flowers and botanical forms. These flowers bend, twist, and arc rather than grow in perfect vertical lines, mirroring the way human growth unfolds. In Wherever You Go, There You Are, each flower functions as a marker along an interior journey — a moment of recognition where awareness interrupts repetition.
Stephanie Hirsch is a New York-based mixed media artist whose conceptual works explore themes of self-transformation and awareness. Stitching together words and imagery representing notions of strength, courage, humanity, and renewal, Hirsch uses philosophical phrases to reveal that what we experience is shaped by our consciousness rather than what we see in the physical world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries and museums, has participated in various art fairs, and is part of several permanent collections including the Newcomb Museum at Tulane University, and the Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida.
Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.
Stephanie Hirsch
If You’re Seeking Anything Outside of Yourself You’re Taking the Long Way Home, 2025
Embroidery and beads on canvas
39 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches
Everything Will Come to You At Just The Right Time, 2025
Embroidery and beads on sculpted canvas
83 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
Deeper You Go, The More Powerful You Become, 2026
Stephanie Hirsch
The
Embroidery and beads on sculpted canvas
24 3/4 x 82 inches
Wherever You Go, There You Are, 2025
Embroidery and beads on canvas
40 x 48 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
Stephanie Hirsch
The Deeper You Go, The More Powerful You Become, 2025
Embroidery and beads on canvas
40 x 48 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
Life Takes Time, 2025
Embroidery and beads on sculpted canvas
21 1/4 x 71 3/4 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
The Deeper You Go, The More Powerful You Become, 2026
Beads on canvas
40 x 40 inches
Wherever You Go, There You Are, 2026
38 1/2 x 40 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
Beads on canvas
65
Stephanie Hirsch
The Lesson Repeats As Needed, 2025 Beads on canvas
x 65 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
I Am Made of Everything The World Could Not Take From Me, 2026
Beads on canvas
48 x 48 inches
I Am Made of All The Things the World Could Not Take From Me, 2026
Embroidery and beads on sculpted canvas
82 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches
Stephanie Hirsch
STEPHANIE HIRSCH
1970 Born in New York, New York
EDUCATION
1992
B.A. in Art History and Costume Design, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2015
Awakening, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Transformation, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Meditation Wheel: Journey to the Center of the Soul, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY
2021
Badge of Honor, Toshkova Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
2020
Memes are the Modern day Ancient Scriptures, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2019
King Kong was a Woman, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2018
The New Gallery, Charlotte, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2021
25thAnniversary Exhibition, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York
2020
Summer Mood curated by Natasha Schlesinger, Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY
2019
#artsoundmeditation, curated by Stacy Engman, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2018
The Ideal Feminine/The Feminine Ideal?, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
Objects of Desire, Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY
Senses and Perception, Mana Contemporary, Newark, NJ
Flora, Cornell Art Museum, Del Ray Beach, FL
Samuel Owen Gallery, Nantucket, RI
Gallery Valentine, East Hampton, NY
2017
Luminance, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Art Miami, Miami, FL (Lyons Wier Gallery, NY)
The New Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2016
Art Miami, Miami, FL (Lyons Wier Gallery, NY) Women of Newcomb, Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane, New Orleans, LA
2015
ArtMRKT Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY (Lyons Wier Gallery, NY)
