Overlaid / Understood: A Hera Member’s Exhibition

Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 8 | 6:00 - 8:00

On View: August 8 - September 5

Hera Gallery is proud to present Overlaid / Understood: A Hera Member’s Exhibition, featuring the work of Viera Levitt, Maggy Allen, Alison Meyer, and Abigail Wamboldt.

Overlaid / Understood speaks to the practice of the five exhibiting Hera Artists, who are all working in a two dimensional format across multiple disciplines. Gallery Director Abigail Wamboldt states “These works have been created by coating, spreading, or placing materials onto a surface. While the creative process can sometimes be illusive in its meaning, when an artwork is completed, it is frequently articulated as being “Understood”. The emergence of a work of Art from nothing to something is the act of creative realization and understanding.”

Wamboldt speaks further about her own work in the exhibition “I am drawn to the two dimensional format because it feels like a window into another world. However, I sometimes feel the need to break the frame and bring the world of my imagination into a three dimensional installation. I gravitate towards tactile materials that allow me to become physically immersed in the experience of producing an artwork...”

For artist Alison Meyer, the world of photography and image making has captivated her from a young age. It all started when a 35mm point and shoot camera was gifted by her grandparents to her, on her ninth birthday. Since then she has always found herself taking and creating pictures and photographs associated around metaphors in memory and meaning.

Maggy Allen describes: “My work is inspired by the figure with a particular focus on anatomy as seen in MRI imaging. This includes individual internal organs, musculoskeletal structures, vasculature, and the spaces between. The complex shapes and kinetic energy these corporeal forms present intrigues me, and I explore their essence through abstract imagery. Drawing on layered vellum, a skin of sorts, I reveal things that are otherwise hidden. The use of MRI scans as a primary source material allows me to delve beneath superficial appearances and transform physical structural details into abstract visual expressions...”

Viera Levitt writes “Moving away from the clean geometry of brutalist architecture that I tend to photograph, I turned toward the archives—and the tangible memory held within our local history. My focus settled on the very structure housing this gallery: a former textile mill. I began documenting the physical remnants of its past—remnants I have been surrounded by for twelve years as a Hera Gallery member since we moved into this building—from the stone walls and pathways floating like a river between them to the ghost of a fountain that once stood nearby.