Hera Gallery

26 th Young Adults’ Exhibition February 2 nd – February 23 rd Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2 nd , 6:00 – 8:00 pm Mark Bowen, Show Your Work, Acrylic, 2013, grade 11, Ocean Tides Providence Campus   Hera Gallery is pleased host the 26 th Biennial Young Adults’ Exhibition . Hera is happy to once again be in downtown Wakefield and have the opportunity to serve our community by presenting an outstanding art exhibit that celebrates the young artists of our community. This three week long exhibition will showcase the limitless range of technique and creative expression of our local young artists. We invite the public to join us Saturday, February 2 nd from 6:00 to 8:00pm for the opening reception of the Young Adults’ Exhibition.   The Young Adults Exhibition features High School students throughout the state, offering young artists a unique opportunity to present their original artwork to the community in a professional gallery setting....

UMBRAS An Experimental Light Installation by Chad Amos Self Wednesday, January 16 th , 2013 5:00 – 8:00pm Hera Gallery presents a one night experimental light installation by gallery member Chad Amos Self, entitled Umbras . The one night show will take place in Hera Gallery located on 10 High Street Wakefield, RI on Wednesday, January 16th. The public is invited to attend that evening from 5:00 to 8:00pm. Umbras is about the ways that light and shadow connect and dissipate against each other. It will be a creation of a space in which objects no longer have value or purpose. The manipulation of the immaterial object is paramount to the success of this experiment. This show will highlight the coexistence between the created visible and the perceived invisible spaces. The ethereal plane that exists where light is created, travels, refracts, dissipates, and returns to shadow. Chad Amos Self will be making an environment using only rudimentary objects to ma...

Nick Bassett’s Paintings on Display in The World’s Smallest Art Gallery through February 1, 2013.  You know Nick Bassett. You may not know that you know Nick Bassett, but you know him. You have seen his stickers adorning stop signs and telephone poles. You’ve seen his tag (nome d’arte?) sprayed on a skate ramp or bridge abutment. You’ve seen him creating a roof top mural in the background of a music video. Nick has the subliminal ubiquity achieved by active graffiti artists. Now if you want to know him face to face - or at least his paintings on canvas – all you need to do is check out The World’s Smallest Art Gallery. Several of his pieces are on display until February 1, 2013. Nick has a doppelganger named Mr. Munk or Munko McFunko. He is an overweight, ugly, older, sourpuss version of Nick. Mr. Munk could be Nick in twenty years if things went really wrong. This character is one aspect of Nick’s art that makes it unique and engaging. Mr. Munk suggests that among all the co...