Hera Gallery

Celebrate SWAN (Support Women Artists Now)Day at  Hera Gallery . Join awesome Rhode Island based female artists Mara Trachtenberg, Babs Owen, Kara Dunne and Kirstin Lamb in a panel discussion of their work, their lives, and how the two intermingle.  Brooke Erin Goldstein Art and Design  will be moderating the talk. This is an insightful event not to me missed revealing the inner workings of the contemporary artist. Want to know more about our Panelists, our Moderator or SWAN Day check out the following websites: http://www.womenarts.org/ swan http:// www.maratrachtenberg.com/ http:// www.barbaraowen.net/ http://www.nitsrik.com/ http://www.karadunne.com/ http:// brookeeringoldstein.com/ Hera Gallery will be collecting  paper good items to benefit the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County for the duration of the exhibition in honor of Women's History Month. We invite the public to bring paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, or Lysol wipes to...

TONIGHT 7PM! Artist Talk with Jill McLaughlin, Mara Trachtenberg, and MJ Yeager!

Hera will be open tomorrow, but NEXT WEEK will be the opening of "New Visions"! Opening reception will be September 6th from 6-8pm. Exhibiting Artists include Jill McLaughlin, Iris Donnelly, MJ Yeager, Connie Greene, Elizabeth Lind, and Mara Trachtenberg. Enjoy a sneak peek of Mara's work depicted above!

Hera Gallery will be open 10-4 today, but the reception will be  NEXT Saturday, August 2nd from 6-8pm. Why the delay? Because Hera President, Mara Trachtenberg, has an artist's reception for her exhibition at the Colo Colo Gallery in New Bedford! Join us in celebrating her work from 5-8pm TONIGHT at Colo Colo!

Come see Hera Vice President, Mara Tractenberg's untitled sugar sculpture and many more intricate pieces at our Small Works exhibition! Gallery open today 1-5 and Saturday 10-4!  "Untitled" by Mara Tractenberg All works are $300 and under as well as TAX FREE! Exhibition will be on display until 12/21.

ARTWORK DOCUMENTATION Offered by Mara Trachtenberg 15 pieces of your artwork documented by a professional photographer.  You will have a CD of high quality, well lit images that are portfolio ready.   All images will be in JPEG format.     Valued at $200, this service and many more will be up for bid at the Fundraising Silent Auction & Small Works Opening Reception Saturday, November 23rd at 6pm.

Hera Gallery member, Mara Trachtenberg will have a solo exhibition at the Sarah Doyle Gallery entitled A Decadent World. The exhibit opens March 25th and runs until April 20th with an opening reception Thursday April 4th at 6:00pm.   See more of her work at:  www.maratrachtenberg.com  

Hera Gallery Presents Associate Members Exhibition Opening Reception Saturday, December 1 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm December 1- December 22       We invite you to the opening reception of our December Associate Members Exhibition on December 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. The Associate Members Exhibition will feature the artwork of Joan Bishop, Linda Denosky-Smart, Carl Dimitri, Paul  Forte and Mara Trachtenberg.  Joan Bishop Cat & Crow  Acrylic & Mixed Media Linda Denosky-Smart  Interior acrylic on canvas, 2012 Carl Dimitri Forgotten Epoch Paul Forte, Ringing Silence, 2012 Mara Trachtenberg, Circus Add to your events on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/events/487799094586784/?notif_t=plan_user_joined   Hera Gallery, 10 High Street, Wakefield, RI Gallery Hours Wed to Fri 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm Free and open to the public for more information pleas...

Hera Gallery member, Mara Trachtenberg will be exhibiting at the Midwest Center for Photography in  Wichita, Kansas from September 28th to October 12th, 2012 UPCOMING EXHIBITION "MIDWEST PHOTO EMERGE” Opening Reception: September 28, 7 - 10 p.m. Find out more about the exhibit here Mara Trachtenberg , Bunny Topiary

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...

Hera Gallery is excited to be welcoming a new member to our community! Mara Trachtenberg is an artist and educator focusing predominantly on photography. Her work depicts highly saturated vignettes, documenting surreal moments of seemingly picturesque fantasy. Upon further inspection these idealized glimpses reveal a darker side dealing with impermanence and mortality. The images below are from her 'The Suspense of Reanimation' series, which illustrates the specific moment in a fairy tale when the protagonist is hovering in a space framed by 'the metaphoric death of an inadequate self and rebirth to a higher plane of existence (Bruno Bettleheim).' She uses a rabbit corpse to portray these moments, making her metaphors more accessible to the viewer. Sleeping Beauty , digital C print, 2005 Princess, Digital C print, 2005 The images below are from her series 'A Decadent World,' which blends the realm of culture an nature together into a decadent confection. ...