Notes From The Coast
Hera Gallery is currently exhibiting work by Kathie Florsheim and Barbara Pagh through September 5th. Stop by Wednesday - Friday from 1-5pm, and Saturday from 1-4pm. You can also view their extensive bodies of work on our website! https://www.heragallery.org/
Both artists are exhibiting new work this fall after they recognized shared interests in the coastal environment.
Pagh voices she decided to revisit the theme of the Rhode Island coast:
“For Matunuck Intervals, I began in September by walking on the South Kingstown 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.”
Florsheim, who is showing photographs from a new series called Precious Remains, uses few words to embody the ephemeral nature of her subject matter:
“To make the fleeting tangible…
To grab the transitory, squeezing it.
Hold on for dear life.”
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