Hera Gallery

Hera Gallery is very pleased to be welcoming a new associate member, Caroline M. Pyle, Jr. Caroline grew up in Rhode Island, where her surroundings inspired her to cultivate her artistic passion. A graduate of Yale University, Pyle has recently relocated to Cincinnati where she continues to work in the field of public health, concentrating on health disparities. A nearly fatal car accident served as a catalyst of transformation for Caroline. Using courage and determination as tools to pull herself through this catastrophic event, Pyle now uses painting as a vehicle to communicate a sense of hope to the world. Pyle has now cycled back to her artistic roots, and embraced her passion for creativity; which was initially a survival tool during her recovery. As Caroline has transformed tragedy into a positive vehicle for growth and development, her creative enterprises have symbiotically begun to blossom as well. A self-taught artist, Caroline gives her emotions a clear voice, allowing p...

Written by gallery member, John Kotula. Just down Main Street from Hera Gallery is The Alternative Food Coop. Like Hera, the Coop is a South County institution that got started in the ‘70’s and has gone through many permutations. These days it is a small, busy market selling organic foods, locally grown produce, bulk items, vitamins, spices, and herbs. It is also one of the best places in town to grab lunch. You can choose from four or five crock-pots full of soups with fanciful names, a cooler of sandwiches and bottled drinks, and a great selection of baked goods. There are only two tables, so stopping in for lunch often involves sitting down with other people and having a conversation about politics, yoga, herbs that aid memory, midwifery, or the scarcity of naturopathic veterinary care. Although the Coop faces heavy competition from health food store chains and expanded natural food sections in the local super markets, it is one of those South County places that offer a sense of com...

Today Hera Gallery hosted an Artisan Craft Sale.  In support of the creativity of local artists, Hera extended its gallery to local makers.  This event also offered the community an opportunity to experience one-of-a-kind handmade works.  The gallery was inundated with ceramics, jewelry, paper goods, textiles, and handmade sculptures.  It was a very warm and festive afternoon.

The Following is a repost from todays Providence Journal. I thought that those of you heading to the Providence Place Mall might find this particular use of commercial and communal space interesting. He wanted a new sofa. She thought the apartment could use more color. When friends stayed over, they often wound up sleeping on the floor. Clearly, everyone agreed, it was time for a change. And so, just days before their secret hideaway was discovered and their exploits became the stuff of local legend, the artists who spent nearly four years homesteading inside Providence Place mall were about to do something that homeowners everywhere can relate to. They were about to redecorate. “We had it all planned,” says Michael Townsend, the lanky 37-year-old mastermind behind what some have called inspired performance art and others, including mall officials, have termed an illegal “violation” of private property. “We had a bunch of new furniture, including a new sofa, new chairs and a very nice...

Check out all of Victoria's hard work! The wikipedia page for Hera Gallery is finished, and can be viewed through the link below.  Enjoy, and happy editing! Click here to go to Hera's Wikipedia page...

Check out the review of our show, Hera Artists and Friends! Thanks to Johnette Rodriguez for taking the time to come down from Providence and experience the show. http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid51818.aspx

Here are some images of the current exhibition, Hera Artists and Friends.  This show gave our gallery members an opportunity to not only display their own work, but to also act as curators and invite other artists to show in the gallery.  It's great to see textiles, sculpture, craft, photography, paintings, and drawings coexisting within the same space.   This show is a vibrant exhibition infused with a sense of life, possibly as a result of the cross pollination of the different works.  The quality of the show has been greatly strengthened by the juxtaposition of works within our small space.  As a result, this exhibition is a conglomeration of ideas, philosophies, medias, techniques, and intent.   Despite all the visual differences, the predominant commonality is that Hera Gallery is the central focal point which has brought about this milieu of artists.  Before the show began, it was impossible to project what the show was going to look like.  We had no idea what works we were ...

Our current intern, Victoria, has created a wikipedia page for the gallery. Wikipedia is an online based reference guide which allows people to add articles to the expanding database of information. We will continue to add information to the current article, as well as to link our article to similarly oriented pages. By linking to other subjects within the Wikipedia network, we will be able to locate Hera within a historical and conceptual context. Be sure to visit the link below to the Hera Gallery wikipedia page. Feel free to edit or add to the provided information, as that is the best way to expand upon the topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera_Gallery

Hera Gallery is please to announce the exhibition, Hera Artists and Friends. This exhibition gives Hera Gallery artists an opportunity to act as curators, as they have invited other practicing artists to participate in the show. As a result, the exhibition will portray the dynamic fabric of the extended artistic community with which Hera is an integral member. Hera Artists and Friends articulates a sense of diversity within an artistic community. Artists will display a variety of different media, showing photography, painting, sculpture, prints, puppets, and much more. Participating will be Alexandra Broches, Barbara Pagh, Beth Nixon, Claudia Flynn, Cynthia Farnell, Darrell Matsumoto, Fran Kaufman, Jeff Bertwell, Jill McLaughlin, John Kotula, Leslie Bostrom, Linda Denosky-Smart, Myron Rubenstein, Nancy Dean, Robert Kizinsky, Roberta Richman, and Troy West. Viewers will be able to see the integration of artistic ideas in the work on display, and Hera Artists and Friends will also visual...

Hera at One Capitol Hill At the Atrium Gallery November 1st – November 30th, 2007 Hera Gallery is pleased to announce the show, Hera at One Capitol Hill, hosted by the Atrium Gallery. This show features the work of Hera Gallery members Alexandra Broches, Linda Denosky-Smart, Jeannette Jacobs, John Kotula, Jill McLaughlin, Maureen Murray, Barbara Pagh, Roberta Richman, and Myron Rubenstein. The artists of Hera Gallery represent an identity of dedicated, passionate, contemporary artists located within our community. Hera at One Capitol Hill offers a unique opportunity for Hera Gallery artists to be represented together in a conglomerate environment. The artists that are affiliated with the Hera Gallery are as unique and varied as the artwork that they create. Photography, printmaking, painting, and mixed media works on paper will come together to create a synchronicity of artworks referencing the individual artists and the ideals that Hera Gallery has been founded on. This exhibition...

We recently had the performance night at the gallery which was associated with the Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Exhibition. The night highlighted the works of local artists, and featured films, video, song, and performances.

Our next show, The Secret Rooms Of The Dirt Palace, is coming together! The show is a collaboration with the women from The Dirt Palace, a feminist cooperative in Onleyville, RI. In conjunction with the opening celebration for the exhibition, there will also be a night of performance artists. It is a very exciting show, as generations of feminists come together to purvey cutting edge arts! It is all coming together in a very fluid, organic fashion. We have just gotten the proof of the show card, and it looks beautiful! I will provide more information as it all develops.

Hera Gallery is pleased to present “Essential Elements”, a national juried exhibition with works selected by Judith Tolnick, director URI Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from July 14th-August 18th. What are essential elements in artmaking? This deceptively simple question is one that elicited a wide range of responses to Hera Gallery’s current show, “Essential Elements”. Though many chose to interpret essential to mean a fundamental sense of form, shape and color, this vibrant exhibition pushes aside traditional concepts to make way for personal interpretation. Juror Judith Tolnick selected work that explores the artists’ perception of “essential elements” within their own conceptual framework. In her juror’s statement she writes, “[t]he exhibition theme moves away from any connotations of “essentialist” aesthetics and engages instead the vital, fundamental, core structures that occupy different artists variously and to distinctive ends.” As Tolnick tucks away any pre-deter...