Hera Gallery is proud to present Notes From The Coast, a summer member exhibition featuring Kathie Florsheim and Barbara Pagh. The show will be held at Hera Gallery at 10 High Street in Wakefield, RI, from August 8 to September 5, 2020. The public is invited to attend during our adjusted open Gallery hours, Wed- Fri (1-5pm) and Saturday (1-4pm), however we will not be holding an opening reception to comply with social distancing. In lieu of events, our members will be featured throughout the month on our website in a virtual show that includes images, videos, and a recorded artist talk between Pagh and Florsheim in the gallery space.

Both artists are exhibiting new work this fall, after they recognized shared interests in the coastal environment.

Pagh voices she decided to re-visit the theme of the Rhode Island coast. “For Matunuck Intervals, I began in September by walking on the South Kingstown town beach and Moonstone Beach on an almost daily basis, using my phone to photograph details of patterns in the sand, sand fences, rocks, piles of slipper shells, burlap bags that form a buffer for a house. The photographs were altered on the computer and became digital negatives that were then exposed onto light sensitive lithographic plates and printed on a variety of thin Asian papers. I collage the images together in spaced intervals on a larger piece of abaca handmade paper. The Horizons series are collages of dyed handmade papers. Working mostly from memory, sometimes with a photographic reference, I arrange horizontal elements of sky, water and sand in a minimal composition.”

Florsheim, who is showing photographs from a new series called Precious Remains, uses few words to embody the ephemeral nature of her subject matter:

“To make the fleeting tangible…

To grab the transitory, squeezing it. 

Hold on for dear-life.”

Click below to view each artists full body of work:

Kathie Florsheim earned an M.F.A. in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she studied with icons Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Honors include a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Visual Art Sea Grant award given by the University of Rhode Island, and the Hannum-Warner Travel Fellowship awarded by her alma mater, Mt. Holyoke College. Her professional honors also include a fellowship with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, and a CASE Media Fellowship awarded by the University of Maine. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, RISD Art Museum, The Museum of Art at Bates College, the Provincetown Art Association, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, and the Newport Art Museum, as well as numerous private collections. She has been a member of Hera Gallery since June, 2019.

Ms. Florsheim lives and works in Providence, RI.

Barbara Pagh is a printmaker and papermaker who is a Professor Emerita of Art at the University of Rhode Island. Pagh is a founding member of the Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England. She has been a member of Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI since 1985 and serves on the Board of Directors. She studied art at Mount Holyoke College and at New York University. She bought her first press in 1975 and not long after started making her own paper after reading an article in a magazine. She took additional printmaking classes at Bob Blackburn’s Printshop and papermaking workshops at Carriage House Handmade Paper. She has exhibited at the Adams Gallery in Taegu, South Korea and was one of two artists from RI to participate in a national portfolio exchange, East/West.