Hera Gallery Presents: Silent Presence
A Members Exhibition featuring : Molly Kaderka, Viera Levitt, Elizabeth Lind, and Roberta Richman
June 20 - August 1, 2020
Hera Gallery is proud to present Silent Presence, a Hera Member Exhibition featuring: Molly Kaderka, Viera Levitt, Elizabeth Lind, and Roberta Richman. This exhibition will take place at Hera Gallery, located at 10 High Street in Wakefield, RI from June 20th to August 1st, 2020. The public is invited to attend during our adjusted open Gallery hours of 3-5pm, Wednesday through Saturday, however we will not be holding an opening reception to comply with the ongoing COVID-19 regulations for social distancing. In lieu of events, our members will be featured throughout the month on our website with images, videos, and recorded artist talks.
These four exhibiting artists are showing work collectively focused on our human perceptions of both the natural and man-made world around us. Our collective transient experience on earth is actively informed by our daily interactions and our active awareness of ourselves and our impact. The exhibition’s title also touches on the bizarre season of covid-19, which has plagued our reality and studio practices this spring with a looming presence of uncertainty.
Painter Molly Kaderka expresses, “As we collectively face the prospect of thousands of plant and animal species going extinct, due largely to human-induced climate change, I am more and more drawn to the question of how people experience, or refuse to experience, the natural world.” The photographs shown by Viera Levitt depict intimate architectural details and forms within Brutalist Architecture. The raw concrete of these structures offer a duality of beautiful abstraction of light and form, yet also feel imposing and somewhat devoid of warmth. Elizabeth Lind creates sculptures centered on the figure and its environment, whether real or imagined. “Inspired by the timeless beauty of the female form, I explore the context of the female experience - the world and atmosphere in which women live. Fascinated by ancient cultures and the endurance of myths and symbols, I explore contemporary rites and rituals within the context of time.” Artist Roberta Richman uses landscape as initial inspiration, but quickly her own creativity takes priority to the representational depiction. “All of the work, although it starts as a particular landscape, quickly becomes the vision of my imagination. I am never certain when I start a painting, what it will eventually become...Although I carry the image of landscape in my mind, art and nature are not the same. I make no effort to replicate nature in art.”
