Hera Gallery

We are pleased to welcome one of our new members MJ Yeager  to the Hera community. MJ is a local artist and designer. She worked in the design field from 1974 in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington DC and Maine until 1994 shortly after the birth of her daughter is when she and her family moved to Maine. It was then that she retired from the graphic design field and began teaching art to children and adults. She moved here to Rhode Island in 2003 and taught art locally at Quest Montessori School. Teaching provided her an opportunity to fine-tune her own expressive art forms including painting and blended media collage. Her 20-plus year career as a graphic designer may explain her passion for the process of collage. As a designer/art director in the 70s, 80s and early 90s prior to the onset of digital technologies, all of the design and production was prepared in cut-and-paste format and sent to print houses for reproduction. By 1992 all design projects were complete...

We are thrilled to announce our newest member, Amanda Swain Bingham. A native of  Peace Dale, Rhode Island, she received a BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Massachusetts.  She studied documentary photography with Bill Burke and attended Rhode Island School of Design for post graduate studies. Her most recent work is "Travels Without Skin", read more and view some of her work from the series below.  Amanda Swain Bingham SHADOW PLAY/SHADOW SHOW/SELF 2013 I started noticing shadows out of the corner of my eye after the death of my very shy, but adventurous uncle four years ago. These sightings seemed protective, familiar and comical. I started to notice these shadows while doing household chores, allowing me to laugh at my vigorous vacuuming, as if I had friends to laugh with me at my rapid approach to cleaning. My shadow was a Giacometti figure dumping the trash, then an Aboriginal with a spear, unclogging the toilet. I beg...

Hera Gallery is pleased to introduce our newest member, Chad Amos Self. Chad is a recent Fine Arts graduate from University of Rhode Island and a Rhode Island native. You may recognize him from previous juried and member exhibitions at Hera Gallery. His work takes inspiration from, " Shape and line. Light and shadow. Objects do not have to exist in the material world. I try to manipulate the immaterial. It becomes a coexistence between the created visible and invisible spaces. The ethereal plane that exists where light is created, travels, refracts, dissipates, and returns to shadow."  We look forward to working with him. See more at: http://chadamosself.com/

Hera Galley is pleased to welcome Emily Humphrey as our newest member. She is currently entering her Sophomore year at University of Rhode Island, where she studies Landscape Architecture. You may remember her as our most recent intern, and she is curating a exhibition focusing on conscientious landscape architecture design. Breaking Out, lino print on cloth, 2011 Flag Study, charcoal on vellum, 2011 Lily on Fabric, charcoal, pastel on bogus paper, 2010

Hera Gallery is pleased to welcome Paul Forte to the gallery.  A nationally recognized artist who lives and works in Wakefield;   working with visual metaphors, Forte has been an active participant in the gallery prior to his membership. His work  " uses a variety of cultural artifacts as well as the occasional find from the natural world.   [ His] work brings these things to life with an economy of means that relinquishes neither depth of feeling nor conceptual complexity ."  Hera looks forward to working with Paul, and having his creativity and sensibilities reflected in upcoming exhibitions.   Vegetal Man (detail) , collage on medical illustration, 2006 Bucolic Strains , mixed media, 2007 Mantle (After A Fashion) , mannequin, paper butterflies, 2007

We are so pleased to have Michael Yefko as a new artist member at Hera Gallery. Michael has exhibited at Hera numerous times in the past, and you may remember his work from the recent exhibition, Money . Michaels' sculptures and 2-dimensional works tend to reference concepts of dreams, loss, house, and home; he utilizes the symbol of the house as a stand in for the self and as a means to exercise his anger over the loss of the natural world for the sake of the built suburban spectacle . By incorporating loaded symbolic objects such as a house, Michael stimulates the viewer to have a personal connection to the work that carries such a potent context with it. Michael is also a carpenter, a nd has spent much time in his life working on his own home . Considering his attention to detail, craftsmanship, and in-depth knowledge of carpentry and construction, we are elated that Michaels' membership is a sweat equity one. It will be nice to have a capable and informed member to he...

We here at Hera Gallery are excited to be welcoming a new member, Susan Hayward to our midst. Susan is a local artist, working out of Shady Lea studios. She has been a supporter of the gallery for quite a while now, participating in past fundraisers such as the recent Paint By Numbers Lottery (her creation for that event is posted to the right). Recently, Susan has been working with photography as well as creating incredibly intricate beaded jewelry. No matter what media she works in, her attention to detail is exquisite. Look for more information about her on our home page, as well as in the next exhibit at Hera featuring our Associate Members.

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. ...

Hera Gallery is excited to have a new artist member, Elizabeth Lind! Lind has been inspired by the natural world within her reach, drawing influence specifically from sea forms and the human figure. Her work explores the bods between people, such as life, death, joy, betrayal, fertility, motherhood, and the celebration of the aesthetic of forms. Primarily a stone carver, she works multiple stones at once, revealing the potential works of art hidden within the media. She works to find the possibilities hidden beneath the surface of he stones that she works with, revealing fluid, dreamlike sculptures. Lind also works in mixed media sculptures, which she has generously donated to numerous Hera fundraisers in the past. We are glad to have Elizabeth at the gallery, and look forward to the insight that she will bring to the organization.