Hera Gallery

The Providence Phoenix did a write up of the exhibition, Crossing Currents, that Hera produced in conjunction with The Hive Archive. You can read the review here: Review: 'Crossing Currents: Feminism Now' at URI Showcase sans statements By GREG COOK One of the cool developments of the past decade has been the reassessment and historical embrace of the founding feminist art of the 1960s and '70s. Shows like "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," which toured nationally in 2007; "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968," on view at Tufts University in Boston through April 3; and the RISD Museum's recent surveys of Lynda Benglis and Pat Steir have been well-deserved celebrations of these women's work. They've also made plain that the centrality of video, performance, and perhaps photography in contemporary art owes much to feminist artists of the '70s. And the evidence suggests that post-modernism's int...

Hera Gallery member, Mara Trachtenberg , has been featured on The Food Seen , an internet radio station run by Michael Harlan Turkell, the photo editor for Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn. You can read the short write up below, or click the title to listen to the radio feature! The Food Seen - Episode 42 - Mara Trachtenberg’s “A Decadent World”, sculpted sugar photographs First Aired - 03/15/2011 03:00PM Mara Trachtenberg, a fine art photographer, constructed a series of fantastical 4×5 photos images for “A Decadent World” with sugar as her sculptural medium. Feeding off an early fascination with food, from her Nana’s eastern-European Jewish kitchen (blintzes, latkes, kasha and kugel), to her father’s garden, Mara’s documented slaughterhouses to explore the connection between animal and human, life and death, and in the same vein, been rapt with Food Network’s Ace of Cakes, the plasticity of sugar, and our societal relationship between the culture of food and the nat...

I was ambient listening to NPR this morning as I was in the gallery work on some emails... I heard a story on Here and Now that peaked my interest. Apparently, the University of Iowa may be forced by their state legislators to sell a $140 million Jackson Pollock painting that was gifted to the school in the 50's in order to fun future art scholarships. Although I support scholarships for students, and think that financial assistantship is an important aide, it doesn't seem that the sale would reflect kindly upon the University's opinion of the arts. The legislators should consider the paintings value to be more than just a portable asset. Iowa Lawmakers Move To Sell Pollock Painting To Fund Scholarships (University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6) Iowa legislators are considering a bill that would force the University of Iowa to sell its Jackson Pollock “Mural” painting , valued at $140 million, which was donated to the state-owned...

Here is an article that gives a review of two shows, "Money" and "Finding Objects: A Reappraisal", in yesterdays Independent ! "Review: Two art exhibitions reconsider a culture's concept of value By Doug Norris/Features Editor As changing economic circumstances force all Americans to reprioritize their lives, two local arts organizations are addressing the subject head-on, tackling the notion of prevailing cultural values in separately engaging exhibitions. "Money," which closes at Hera Gallery in Wakefield tomorrow, is a multi-faceted consideration of currency - a word that means both a medium of exchange and prevalence. "Finding Objects: A Reappraisal," at the Courthouse Center for the Arts in West Kingston through Aug. 16, is a compelling meditation on discovering meaning and worth in objects discarded or rejected. Both shows touch upon various aspects of their theme, ranging from the satirical to the angry, the whimsical to the mythi...

There is a really nice article by Bret Warnke about Hera Gallery and the MONEY show in the July 8-9 weekend edition of the Narragansett Times ! You can read it below if you don't have a copy. Congratulations to Susan Hayward, Margi Weir, and Jason Lee Taylor, whose images appear with the article. Remember, the Gallery is also open Saturday 10am - 4pm as well as Wednesday through Friday from 1-5pm. "Hera Gallery returns to Main Street with 'Money' WAKEFIELD- "Burn your money," read a leftist pamphlet from the wild summer of 1968. "Burn your houses and you will be free." Mainstream America would hear none of it. Economic radicalism of this sort vanished, or was marginalized while related movements against the subordination of women, supporting civil rights, and opposing the invasion of Vietnam survived into the 1970's. But the the grand 60's coalitions collapsed and money, which Shakespeare called "a visible God" and "the commo...