Hera Gallery

#MeettheartistMonday Meet Seanna Poirier, a jewelry artist, ceramicist and one of the  artists exhibiting in our current exhibition, Material Roots. Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. Born in Rhode Island I have been creating and working with my hands since childhood. Whether it be drawing, ceramics, painting, or jewelry design I was always making. The tedious nature of art was always very meditative to me and allowed my mind to rest and just create. I majored in metals smithing and jewelry design  while also continuing my love for ceramics at Rhode Island College and graduated with a BFA in 2016. Since then I have been working in the jewelry field with fellow artists and creating my own work on my free time at my home studio in Coventry, RI.  What do you want people to walk away with after experiencing your work? To see the beauty in not...

#MeettheartistMonday Meet Hera artist and President Uli Brahmst   “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein Artist Story Making was always a way to explore the world in and around me. My mother was a bookbinder and my early childhood teacher an artist. Growing up we travelled a lot within Europe and discovering Miro, Matisse and Chagall profoundly shaped my understanding of art - a visual language full of imagination and color. The Geman Expressionists Paula Modersohn-Becker and Kaethe Kolwitz first assured me that the personal and domestic experience of a woman was a valid subject-matter. They did not glorify or beautify, they observed women and gave expression to their inner worlds and social predicaments. I studied art history in combination with psychology before I pursued my masters in...

#MeetTheArtistMonday Meet Hera Artist and new Vice President Chad Amos Self! "Thoughts, ideas and memories are constantly floating around in my mind. The best way for me to organize them is through imagery. " Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I started making objects when I was very young. I was always fascinated with the freedom I experienced building something. I remember loading up my backpack with tools from the garage and going into the woods to build forts out of found scrap wood and debris. These early endeavors were meditative and important to me. They gave me a space to be creative with the limitless resources the forest and my imagination provided me. I make art because I have to make art. Thoughts, ideas and memories are constantly floating around in my mind. The best way for me to organize them is through imagery. I make art because it helps m...

#Meet the Artist Monday Meet Hera Artist, Molly Kaderka Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I think I’ve always been an artist but in high school I was lucky enough to have teachers who showed me that being an artist was a real possibility. I make art because I believe in the power of images to communicate and express the human experience. I received my BFA in painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute and my MFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design.  What do you want people to walk away with after experiencing your work? Much of the content in my work is about what it means to be present. To be here and to exist. With that knowledge comes the knowledge that we will all die. To have knowledge of our own existence means we also have knowledge that we will cease to be.  Our time is temporary, and my work tries to embody that sense o...