Hera Gallery

Position Description Gallery Director The position of Gallery Director, Hera Gallery/Hera Educational Foundation is a part-time paid position (18 hours per week, $12.10/hour). The Director reports directly to the President of the Board of Directors. This position, while an administrative position, is a creative springboard allowing a motivated individual the opportunity to contribute to the local arts community by leading a well-regarded institution. Hera encourages the gallery director to pursue his or her professional interests including associate artist membership (free) in the gallery. The gallery director may also work to develop skills in the following areas: curatorial experience and exhibition design, graphic design, professional level arts writing, website development. Qualifications: • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Excellent organizational skills • Good computer skills—proficiency in Microsoft...

Saturday, November 21st, 5-8pm Curious Surface Opening Reception   & November Fall Fundraiser Join us in a night of art, food, and fun with the Hera artists of Curious Surface : Uli Brahmst, Iris Donnelly, Viera Levitt, Megan McNaught, Barbara Owen, & MJ Yeager Silent Auction of Crafts, Art,  & Local Business Goods/Services: 5-7:45 Wine Surprise Gift Bags Available All Night & The Return of the ARTIST MADE PIE LIVE AUCTION at 7PM!

                     Gene Robinson is a retired locksmith who worked at the University of Rhode Island for over 20 years.  Through the years of raising two daughters and now a grandfather of five, Gene always managed to pursue his passion for photography.  Gene began as a film photographer, but tried digital four years ago and was completely hooked.   Photographing mostly the natural world, Gene has a specific interest in birds.  He attributes this to the moments in his childhood spent with his uncle who raised homing pigeons.  His passion for the natural world shines through every photograph.  He explained that his wish is for others to see the beauty in nature that he sees. He hopes that this inspires them to get out there and experience this beauty themselves, but for those who can’t, he is happy that they can experience some of it through his photographs. I...

OPENING SATURDAY FROM 6-8PM! Alexandra Broches Letters and Pictures from a Box While closing her family home after her father died, Broches found a box containing more letters, photographs and documents than she had previously seen. Her father rarely spoke about the loss of his family and what had happened to this Dutch Jewish family during World War II. So began a project that continues today to construct the family narrative and reflect on the process undertaken to understand who she is and where she came from. The mysteries and memories within the box constitute the foundation of the photographs and personal reflections in this exhibition. Alexandra Broches is a fine art photographer. She lives and maintains her studio in Wakefield, Rhode Island and has been a member of Hera Gallery since 1975.  Barbara Pagh Intervals Barbara Pagh will be exhibiting a new series of prints, “Intervals”. Each one-of-a-kind print takes a tradi...

heragallery.org has been undergoing a major remodel  and is now currently down as we change hosting.  STAY TUNED for the BIG REVEAL!

Due to a combination of illness and scheduling conflict,  we have to postpone tonight's artist talk. Join us NEXT THURSDAY at 7pm!

Hera Gallery is pleased host Relay, a five-week intensive installation exhibition featuring a different artist EVERY WEEK. We invite the public to join us EACH SATURDAY during the exhibition for a reception to celebrate each artist. Week 3: David Namhon Kim, July 7-11 Reception July 11, 6-8pm Installation Hours: Wed 7/8 6-9pm & Thurs 7/9 6-9pm A California native, DAVID NAMHON KIM had brief stints on the east coast for work and education before fully relocating to Providence, RI in 2012. With backgrounds in biochemistry, new media, and fine art, he has worked as a research scientist, high school teacher, and adjunct faculty at RISD and Brown University. A graduate of the RISD Digital+Media MFA program, Kim currently manages the RISD Co-Works fabrication lab while also evolving his personal creative practice.

We've begun Relay Week 2 here at Hera! Mary Kudlak is in town from LA working hard on her installation The Party's Over ! Installation Hours Monday: Until 7 Tuesday: 10-7 Wednesday: 10-7 Thursday: 10-7 Friday: 10-6 With the holiday weekend coinciding with the exhibition, we will be hosting TWO receptions for Mary.  Friday, July 3 6-8pm & Saturday, July 4, 12-3 pm (BBQ!)   MARY KUDLAK is a Los Angeles based visual artist. Her work ranges from 2D prints and paintings to 3D objects and installation work. Focusing mainly on domestic spaces, her work presents the viewer with scenes of everydayness. Sometimes ironic, often comical imagery along with multiple perspectives combine to create playful visuals that the artist carries throughout all mediums. She received her BFA in studio art from the University of Rhode Island and her MFA in printmaking with a thesis in sculpture from Pratt Institute. Her exhibition venues include kunsthalle Galapagos Ar...

Relay kicks off this afternoon with Abigael McGuire starting the work on her jungle of e-waste. She'll be in the gallery from 1-6pm finalizing her prep work tackling most of the physical work Tues-Friday.  Gallery Expanded Installation Hours Mon 1-6pm Tues Collecting Materials in the AM, 1-6pm Wed 9am-12pm, 1-6pm Thurs Collecting Materials in the AM, 1-9pm Fri 9am-12pm, 1-6pm The finished piece will be fully installed and on view Saturday 6/27 10-4 with a reception from 6-8pm. Come stop by anytime she's at work and see this first transformation of the gallery.

Kirby Nunez s is exhibiting in The World’s Smallest Art Gallery* through July 24, 2015. Kirby became an artist slowly and then all at once.   Art was his passion early in life, but by the time he was in high school it began to take a back seat.   He began college at the University of Rhode Island as a Kinesiology major, but soon realized after taking a few art classes, that his passion for art was still there and he wouldn’t be happy doing anything else.   This made him switch from kinesiology and Business to Fine Art and Textiles, and he never looked back.   It didn’t take long for Kirby to start gaining recognition for his art work, and as a junior he was awarded the David Ketner Memorial scholarship for most outstanding junior artist.    Kirby, now a senior at the university, makes art with subject matter that reflects both social and personal issues that are important to him.   His work sometimes deals with the da...

Michael Yefko  Have you been Further on Down the Yellow Brick Road yet? If not, there are so many works to discover here at Hera from Jack Massey and Michael Yefko! Jack Massey Michael Yefko Jack Massey Exhibition is on display until June 20th. Don't miss out on all the works that you can discover just a little further on down the yellow brick road!

Concept: Geometry is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs. In the arts it has referred to the shape and relative arrangement of the parts of something and includes concepts such as the golden ratio and the use of geometric symbols. It can be found historically in Islamic & Renaissance art, folk art quilts, and was embraced as an aesthetic by the great masters of modern art in the 20th Century. It continues to thrive today as exemplified by artists utilizing algorithms and expressing them through visual means. When art and math are used in conjunction, moments of true interdisciplinary coordination occur . This national juried exhibition at Hera Gallery seeks to exhibit a varied perspective on contemporary views of geometry including, but NOT limited to, pattern (whether in data or aesthetic), fractals, string theory, along with the formal vocabulary of geometry from ...

Saturday, June 27th, 7:00pm Dear friends of Hera we are very excited to have assembled a set of 5 portfolios of work by Hera artists to be raffled off this summer to benefit the gallery. 10 Hera members who are photographers or printmakers to do a limited edition of 5 prints. 5 portfolio boxes will be raffled in a drawing to be held on Saturday June 27, at 7pm at 10 High Street. Each work is 11”x14” and is housed in an archival box. The artists who have contributed work are Amanda Swain Bingham, Alexandra Broches, Uli Brahmst, Iris Donnelly, John Kotula, Viera Levitt, Jill McLaughlin, Barbara Pagh, Myron Rubenstein, and Mara Trachtenberg. Tickets for the raffle are $50 and we have limited the number of tickets to 100. You may purchase more than one ticket and do not have to be present to win. Five tickets will be drawn to determine the winners. See the link below for the Raffle PDF and we will send you the ticket stubs. DOWNLOAD RAFFLE PDF FULL SIZE PORTFOLIO...

Elizabeth Richards is exhibiting at The World’s Smallest Art Gallery* through June 12, 2015. Elizabeth Richards is a traditional artist currently residing in Narragansett. Most Elizabeth’s work deals with subjects from nature such as different plants, animals, and sometimes figures and settings to create various scenes with a multitude of symbolism generally involving different cultures’ religions, beliefs, myths, and spirituality. It’s the idea of spirituality and not necessarily religion that she finds interesting. Elizabeth looks through various peoples ranging from Northern Pacific Inuit, Navajo tribes, Greek and Egyptian mythologies, and even modern day movements, such as the punk rebellion, to create a scene and narrative.   Recently she has been focusing on astrology and instances of rare happenings in nature such as albinism, melanism, and different subspecies and what they could possibly represent.   She then creates newer mytholog...

Hera Gallery is pleased host Further on Down the Yellow Brick Road, an exhibition highlighting the work of Hera Members Jack Massey & Michael Yefko. We invite the public to join us Saturday, May 16th from 6:00 to 8:00pm for the opening reception. "The Market is a Snake" - Michael Yefko  "Further On Down The Yellow Brick Road  is an art exhibition at Hera Gallery that will feature works by Jack Massey and Michael Yefko. The two artists will exhibit Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional works that explore temporal aspects of geometry within an entropic reality. As if that was not enough, they will exhibit works that also reveal the humor that comes from a modernist’s utopic sensibility meeting a great wind of change blowing across, through, and against creative freedom. The fear is always that audiences will either read too much or too little between the lines. Both artists admit that one reason for coming together to create this exhibition is that they are w...

Thank you to all of you who have come out to support the WATER exhibition these past few weeks!  Please join us and the regional artists of Water in a closing reception and informal artist panel discussion that includes Michelle Benoit, David Mangels, & Kelsey Miller! Hope to see you there!

Concept: Geometry is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs. In the arts it has referred to the shape and relative arrangement of the parts of something and includes concepts such as the golden ratio and the use of geometric symbols. It can be found historically in Islamic & Renaissance art, folk art quilts, and was embraced as an aesthetic by the great masters of modern art in the 20th Century. It continues to thrive today as exemplified by artists utilizing algorithms and expressing them through visual means. When art and math are used in conjunction, moments of true interdisciplinary coordination occur . This national juried exhibition at Hera Gallery seeks to exhibit a varied perspective on contemporary views of geometry including, but NOT limited to, pattern (whether in data or aesthetic), fractals, string theory, along with the formal vocabulary of geometry from ma...