“I never met a straight line I did not like” Carmen Herrera, 2010
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an extensive survey show of works by the Cuban painter Carmen Herrera. One of her most comprehensive exhibitions to date, this will include historic paintings from the 1940s through to the present day. Born in 1915 Herrera continues to draw and paint every day from her home in New York City.
Recognition came late for Herrera; a story not uncommon among women of her generation. After seven decades of painting, her work was finally revealed to a wider audience through shows in New York and in the UK at IKON Gallery, Birmingham in 2009; Herrera was instantly recognised as a pioneer of Geometric Abstraction and Latin American Modernism. Her compositions are striking in their formal simplicity and heavily influenced by her architectural studies at the University of Havana, Cuba from 1937 to 1938....Combining line, form and space, the geometric division of the canvas with shapes or lines, complemented by blocks of colour, form the structural basis of each work.
More recently Herrera has begun to experiment with raw canvas, the untreated surface replacing one colour within her paintings, as seen in Amarillo, (2010). These monochromatic works reinforce the importance of the texture and surface in her paintings.
Carmen Herrera’s paintings are held in international public collections including: the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.); El Museo del Barrio (New York); Tate Modern (London).
Entrada actualizada el el 13 nov de 2015
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