Hera Gallery

Hera Gallery is pleased to present “Essential Elements”, a national juried exhibition with works selected by Judith Tolnick, director URI Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from July 14th-August 18th. What are essential elements in artmaking? This deceptively simple question is one that elicited a wide range of responses to Hera Gallery’s current show, “Essential Elements”. Though many chose to interpret essential to mean a fundamental sense of form, shape and color, this vibrant exhibition pushes aside traditional concepts to make way for personal interpretation. Juror Judith Tolnick selected work that explores the artists’ perception of “essential elements” within their own conceptual framework. In her juror’s statement she writes, “[t]he exhibition theme moves away from any connotations of “essentialist” aesthetics and engages instead the vital, fundamental, core structures that occupy different artists variously and to distinctive ends.” As Tolnick tucks away any pre-deter