August 20 – September 24, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 20th, 6:00 - 8:00pm


Hera Gallery is pleased to exhibit dual solo show by Alexandra Broches and Michael Yefko. Both members of Hera Gallery, Broches will be exhibiting new photographs while Yefko will be presenting a new series of sculptures.

Alexandra Broches will exhibit a selection of photographs from an ongoing series of landscape imagery. As a photographer, Alexandra explores our culture's view of nature and the ways in which we respond to and impact the world around us. Broches' work explores a sense of place, collective and individual memory, and identity in relation to land. She is interested in the domestic, private, and the 'small'. The images displayed in her show were taken on a recent trip through the southeastern United States. Some of the photographs are amusing, ironic, and puzzling; some imply social and political consequences that are of immediate, if not critical, importance.



Michael Yefko's exhibition, Shed, is a conceptual installation of sculpture, paintings, and drawings that explore the idea of the shed in noun and verb form; from the concrete to the abstract. This exhibition continues Yefko's interest in exploring the strange world of suburbia and the many facets of current housing issues, from the personal search for home to the cultural tragedies of the foreclosure crisis.
Shed is an exploration of the sacred and the profane. It is about shedding one's skin, setting the personal façade adrift, and revealing one's humanity through the redemptive act of art-making," says Yefko. For Michael, "the political, cultural, and social turmoil at work in the world presents a challenge and opportunity to us all. We are seeking home in one way or another. Materialism is a facade that needs to be set adrift to reveal deeper perspectives to life. Art can be a catalyst to this effort."

Click here for the images from the opening

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