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Both Curran and Suh share a preoccupation with
allegory, symbolism, and the natural world.
Connecticut artist
Pat Forni Curran will
show, "Gardens",
her recent series of lively, intensely colored paintings
and collage employing animals and natural forms of imaginary
landscapes.
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Pat has said of her work: "I am intimately
involved with landscape sensations. Memory, of the distant past,
or brief indulgences, and of recurring experiences,
intertwine in the work. I am fascinated with how memory, contemplation,
and dreaming alters imagery, how longing and fears
tiptoe into strange and unbidden relationships. Sensations and moods
of nature are charged with potency for underlying emotions about
relationships in life, about reactions and responses to present and
past experiences."
Left: "What Would the Lilies Say?",
by Pat Forni Curran,
24 x 22, collage and mixed media
Printmaker
Hee Jae Suh's recent
"Works on Paper" consist of intimate artist's books
utilizing a variety of printmaking processes in their creation.
The self-portrait is an inexhaustible well of inspiration
for the artist. Suh weaves autobiographical images of herself and
her family into intricately collaged woodcuts that
are both expressive and technically masterful. A sense
of the playfully surreal continues to enliven her
colorful work.
Untitled, by Hee-Jae Suh
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Hera Gallery is an artist-run cooperative gallery and community art educational
center located in historic downtown Wakefield, Rhode Island. Programs are supported in part by The Rhode Island
State Council on the Arts, The Friends of Hera, the Washington Trust Company, and the Hera
Educational Foundation.
All Hera programs are free and open to the public.
The gallery is accessible to persons with disabilities.
Free parking is available. Call 401-789-1488 for more information.
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