Hera Gallery

Hera Galley is pleased to welcome Emily Humphrey as our newest member. She is currently entering her Sophomore year at University of Rhode Island, where she studies Landscape Architecture. You may remember her as our most recent intern, and she is curating a exhibition focusing on conscientious landscape architecture design. Breaking Out, lino print on cloth, 2011 Flag Study, charcoal on vellum, 2011 Lily on Fabric, charcoal, pastel on bogus paper, 2010

Michael Yefko /// Laundry Grove /// Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood  2012 Artist Statement My sculpture for  Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2012  is a site-specific installation titled “Laundry Grove.” I was inspired by the exhibition’s theme “genius of place,” which Frederick Law Olmsted used to express his views about “the unity between landscape and the social and economic order,” to quote Justin Martin from his biography of Olmsted,  Genius of Place . I see this sculpture installation as an opportunity to extend my own series of work about the built landscape of suburbia, which I see as a strange world of almost religious obsessions with lawns, homes, and social order. As with recent installations of mine—“House and Home,” “Sod,” and “Shed”—“Laundry Grove” continues a body of work that critiques and ponders our relationships to nature and peopled places. I would add that much of my work struggles with my own upbringing in a suburban environment,...

An exhibition of Hera Gallery Members July 7 – July 21 Opening Reception:  Saturday, July 7, 6:00 – 8:00 Hera Gallery has spent the past 37 years bringing contemporary art to Southern Rhode Island, working diligently to promote creativity in our community for nearly four decades. During this time, Hera has resided in the heart of Wakefield; and with the exception of an eighteen-month displacement, Hera has predominantly occupied gallery space located on Main Street. However, Hera Gallery has moved locations and is pleased to welcome the community to our new gallery space located at 10 High Street. In celebration of this new location, Hera is presenting New Ground, which will feature the work of Hera Gallery’s artist members, who are the driving force ushering the gallery into this new location.  New Ground brings together the artists of Hera Gallery in a group show including painting, photography, jewelry, sculpture, printmaking and more. The wide scope of work is ...

Gallery member and sculptor Elizabeth Lind will be exhibiting a work, Pool of Thought, at the Attleboro Art Museum . Her work will be up through the 30th of this month, go check it out! 

Hera Gallery member, Michael Yefko, will be exhibiting in Chesterwood's 2012 Contemporary Sculpture Show. The opening for this exhibition is 4:00 - 6:00 on June 30th. For more information about Chesterwood and this exciting show, click here.

Gallery members, Alexandra Broches and Paul Forte, have been published in the 2012 Ocean State Review .  Each artist has five pieces published in the book, which features the writing of numerous local writers and poets. Be sure to go pick up a copy and have these two autograph it for you! Paul Forte, Juggler's Box , collaged wood spheres, illustration with added found text Alexandra Broches, Beach House, St. George Island, FL, 2011

Hera Gallery is pleased to welcome Paul Forte to the gallery.  A nationally recognized artist who lives and works in Wakefield;   working with visual metaphors, Forte has been an active participant in the gallery prior to his membership. His work  " uses a variety of cultural artifacts as well as the occasional find from the natural world.   [ His] work brings these things to life with an economy of means that relinquishes neither depth of feeling nor conceptual complexity ."  Hera looks forward to working with Paul, and having his creativity and sensibilities reflected in upcoming exhibitions.   Vegetal Man (detail) , collage on medical illustration, 2006 Bucolic Strains , mixed media, 2007 Mantle (After A Fashion) , mannequin, paper butterflies, 2007