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Artist Profile: Irwin Susskind Irwin Susskind has worked as a graphic designer at Lippincott & Margulies. Inc., a firm that specializes in developing corporate identities, where he designed logos for Fortune 500 in the United States and world wide.   His artwork has been exhibited at the Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York City and in the Members’ Gallery in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Irwin Susskind c/o: www.centerforbookarts.org

Artist Profile: Jacqueline Rush-Lee Jacqueline Rush-Lee is a sculptor from Northern Ireland who lives and works in Hawaii (USA). Jacqueline has been working with books for fifteen years and is recognized for working with the book form through artwork features in blogs, magazines, books and international press. Selected bibliography include: BOOK ART: Iconic Sculptures and Installations Made from Books; PAPERCRAFT: Design and Art with Paper and PLAYING WITH BOOKS: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Re-Imagining the Book. Jacqueline’s work will be featured in ART MADE FROM BOOKS, Chronicle Press, 2013 by Laura Heyenga, writer and former editor for SFMOMA. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction in Ceramics and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with a background in [‘O’ level] drawing and painting from Northern Ireland. She exhibits her artwork nationally and internationally and her work is in private and public collections, in...

Artist Profile: Donna Ruff   Donna Ruff grew up in Miami Beach, and moved to New York to pursue a career in graphic design and illustration. She earned an MFA from Rutgers University, where she focused on printmaking and installation. In 2010 she moved to Santa Fe, NM. She has been chosen to create site-specific installations at the Eldridge Street Project on the Lower East Side of New York, PS 122, and for ArtSPACE in New Haven, Connecticut. Exhibitions include Speaking Volumes at the Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin; Fireworks at the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey; Paper[space] at the Philadelphia Art Alliance; Qville, at the Flux Factory in Long Island City, NY; 4th International Graphic Trienniale in Prague; and Feedback: Artist to Artist at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, as well as numerous gallery exhibitions. Recently her work was purchased by the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has curated several exhibitions, including Off the Wall>Rethinking the Print at the...

Curator/Artist Profile: Paul Forte Paul Forte’s career began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970’s. Primarily a visual artist, he also writes poetry and essays. Forte has exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California   (1975, 1976, 1983); A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada (1978); 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, California (1981); The Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California (1986); The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut (1991); the Kim Foster Gallery, New York City (1998); Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York City (2007 & 2008); and The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California (2011). Forte’s work is included in the Sol Lewitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (artist’s books); and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, among others. Forte has lectured on his work at Hera Gallery in Wakefield, Rhode Island; The University of Rhode Island; The Rhod...

Artist Profile: Claire Dannenbaum Claire Dannenbaum is an academic librarian and visual artist living in Eugene, Oregon.  Her current work explores the conceptual life of books through manipulation, destruction, reconstruction, and collage. Claire’s bookwork has been exhibited in Oregon, California, and Rhode Island.  She was awarded a Celebration Foundation grant in 2012.  Working as a librarian continues to be a rich source of inspiration for her projects.   Previously, Claire was a filmmaker and her work has screened internationally. She has participated in public panels, been a visiting artist, won a few awards, and has films in university libraries on both coasts. www.ephemerarium.wordpress.com

Artist Profile: Doug Beube Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist working in bookwork, collage, installation, sculpture and photography.   Since 1993, he has been curator of a private collection, The Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection: The Book Under Pressure, in New York City.   Beube has taught classes at Parsons The New School in artists' books, collage, mixed media, and photography and given workshops at Penland School of Crafts , in Penland, NC , Haystack Mountain , Deer Isle, MN and The Center for Book Arts in New York City . He regularly lectures on his work throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Prior to receiving an MFA in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, graduating in 1983, he was a darkroom assistant to Minor White in Arlington, MA. Doug has exhibited nationally and internationally and his bookwork and photographs are in numerous private and public collections. In the fall of 2011 a monograph entitled, Doug Beube: Breaking the C...

Transformed Volumes An Exhibition of Artist’s Bookworks Curated by Paul Forte June 15 th to July 13 th 2013 Opening Reception Saturday June 15th 6-8pm The idea for this exhibition of artist’s bookworks occurred to me after reading Garrett Stewart’s insightful book, Bookwork, Medium to Object to Concept to Art, a 2011 survey of recent developments in the way that artists engage with and transform books into art.  Garrett’s key concept, indeed the raison d’ etre for what may be a new genre, is “de-mediation,” a term that has a familiar ring, summoning the holy grail of Conceptual art first proposed in 1967 in an article in Art International magazine by critics, Lucy Lippard and John Chandler: “de-materialization.” And there is an intriguing connection or similarity between these two concepts; the former designating the reduction of media to its material support or basis, the latter, the reduction or minimization of the material basis of art (iron...

Hello!  My name is Lindsey Bailer and I am very excited to say that I am the new intern at the Hera Gallery!  I just graduated from the University of Rhode Island a few weeks ago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to do something in the arts.  My dad, a RISD alumnus, was always nurturing and guiding my artistic tendencies.  Throughout my URI career, my focus was mainly in digital photography.  I love creating images that advertise ideas and/or opinions. Besides actually creating art, I have a strong desire to educate the public on the importance of art and the influence it has on our day-to-day lives.  I realized this desire during my treatment at Hasbro’s Children’s Hospital after being diagnosed with cancer during my senior year of High School. While undergoing chemotherapy, I was exposed to the healing power of art – art both displayed throughout Hasbro and art created in the comfort and security of...

CALL FOR ENTRIES Having a Wonderful Time! Announcing the Third Annual Hera Gallery Artists’ Postcard Fundraiser This summer, Hera will hold its third annual postcard fundraiser! We are seeking artists’ postcards created as original works of art to sell at $15 each for benefit of the gallery. Postcards will be displayed in the gallery from July 17-20, 2013 . An opening reception featuring music, food, and fun will be held on Saturday July 20 , from 6:00 to 8:00 PM . Following the event, postcards will be permanently on  sale in the gallery.  Please create postcards for this event and recruit other artists to  aid in this effort. You may contribute individual postcards or  editions of postcards. They can be stamped and sent through the mail,  put in an envelope, or delivered to the gallery. Postcards will be  accepted on a rolling basis. The deadline for inclusion in the show is Friday July 12 . All cards become the property of ...

Closing-of Show-Reception Amanda Swain Bingham " Shadows: Travels Without Skin "   The Colo Colo Gallery  June 1, 2013, 6-8 pm   29 Centre Street , New Bedford, MA 02740.

Join us in celebrating the countdown to our 40th Anniversary where we will share "What Was, What Is, What Will Be" for Hera Gallery! Our annual meeting that will celebrate the past 39 years is this Saturday, May 18th starting at 6:00pm!