Notes From The Coast

We are excited about Hera Gallery's next exhibition, Notes From the Coast, which opens this Saturday!

Notes From the Coast is a summer exhibition featuring Kathie Florsheim and Barbara Pagh. The show will be held at Hera Gallery at 10 High Street in Wakefield, RI, from August 8th to September 5th, 2020. The public is invited to attend during our adjusted open Gallery hours, Wed-Fri (1-5pm) and Saturday (1-4pm), however, we will not be holding an opening reception to comply with social distancing. In lieu of events, our members will be featured throughout the month on our website in a virtual show that includes images, videos, and a recorded artist talk between Pagh and Florsheim in the gallery space.

Kathie Florsheim earned an M.F.A in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she studied with icons, Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Honors include a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Visual Art Sea Grant award given by the University of Rhode Island, and the Hannum-Warner Travel Fellowship awarded by her alma mater, Mt. Holyoke College. Her professional honors also include a fellowship with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources and a CASE Media Fellowship awarded by the University of Maine. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Fogg Provincetown Art Association, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, and the Newport Art Museum, as well as numerous private collections. She has been a member of Hera Gallery since June 2019.

"To make the fleeting tangible...

To grab the transitory, squeezing it.

Hold on for dear life." 

Barbara Pagh is a printmaker and a papermaker who is a Professor Emerita of Art at the University of Rhode Island. Pagh is a founding member of the Printmakers' Network of Southern England. She has been a member of Hera Gallery since 1985 and served on the Board of Directors. She studied art at Mount Holyoke College and at New York University. She bought her first press in 1975 and now long after she started making her own paper after reading an article in a magazine. She took additional printmaking classes at Bob Blackburn's Printshop and papermaking workshops at Carriage House Handmade Paper. She has exhibited at the Adams Gallery in Taegu, South Korea, and was one of two artists from RI to participate in a national portfolio exchange, East/West.

"For Matunuck Intervals I began in September by walking on the South Kingston town beach and Moonstone Beach on an almost daily basis, using my phone to photograph details of patterns in the sand, sand fences, rocks, piles of slipper shells, burlap bags that form a buffer for a house. The photographs were altered on the computer and became digital negatives that were then exposed onto light-sensitive lithographic plates and printed on a variety of thin Asian papers. I collage the images together in spaced intervals on a larger piece of abaca handmade paper. The Horizons series are collages of dyed handmade papers. Working mostly from memory, sometimes with a photographic reference, I arrange horizontal elements of sky, water, and sand in a minimal composition."