Artist Talks with Uli Brahmst and Mara Trachtenberg
July 20th, 7pm @ Hera Gallery
Hold Me
HOLD ME captures a fragile, volatile reality where dark and light are intimately intertwined as they plead for the human soul. In the drawings, sorrow and bewilderment unsettle a timeless world where quiet spirits witness, commune, and comfort.
Throwing ceramics is essentially about holding clay in balance, thereby allowing earth to take shape in the artist’s hands. For this exhibition I created vessels that physically manifest the idea of holding and containing while I explored their different relationships to light and darkness.
About the Artist:
German born artist Uli Brahmst has been living and working in Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic and since 1996 in the United States, where she has made New York City and later Rhode Island her home. Brahmst’s spirited portfolio encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, fiber art as well as site-specific installation. She moves freely between abstraction and the figure, the real and the imagined. Her versatile work is informed by the domestic as well as by current events, and focuses on the empathetic exploration of the human condition in contemporary life.
Brahmst’s work has been shown extensively in the United States and around the world. In New York City she has exhibited in such venues as, Perogi, Lehman College Art Gallery, Rotunda Gallery, Cave Gallery, Cork Gallery Lincoln Center, Exit Art, Art Expo, The German Consulate, Pool Art Fair, the New Art Center and Galleria Galou. Rhode Island venues include the Newport Art Museum, Bannister Gallery, Jamestown Art Center, Providence Art Club, Bristol Art Museum, and Hera Gallery. Other national and international venues include Islip Museum, Islip, CT; the New Jersey Center For Visual Art; Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA; Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas; CORP GROUP Cultural Center, Caracas; Nam June Paik Museum at Tae Gu Teback Gallelry, Korea; 10th International Quilt Festival, Yokohama, Japan; ARWI Contemporary Art Fair, Puerto Rico; Galerie Radost, Prague; and Gallerie R31, Berlin. Brahmst’s most recent solo shows were ON BEING A WOMAN at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus Gallery in 2020, and THE INTIMACY OF CARE at Hera Gallery/Educational Foundation in 2021.
Brahmst is a member of Hera Educational Foundation and Gallery, and an elected member of the Art League of Rhode Island.