Nacimiento: | 1915 en La Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba |
Residencia: | Reside en Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos |
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Ferias en las que participa con OBRA : | Pinta Miami 2018 - Crossing Cultures, Art Basel 18 |
Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan: | Frederico Seve Gallery / Lantincollector Art Center, Lisson Gallery, Tresart |
Organizaciones con obra: | Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) - IDB Cultural Center, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Colección FEMSA |
Profesionales con obra: | Estrellita B. Brodsky, Juan Carlos Maldonado, Tania y Roberto Diaz Sesma, |
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About Carmen Herrera Core to Carmen Herrera’s painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of colour: “My quest”, she says, “is for the simplest of pictorial resolutions” (2012). A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera creates symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement, rhythm and spatial tension across the canvas with the most unobtrusive application of paint. As she moved towards pure, geometric abstraction in the post-war years in Paris, she exhibited alongside Theo van Doesburg, Max Bill and Piet Mondrian and a younger generation of Latin American artists, such as members of the Venezuelan Los Disidentes, Brazilian Concretists and the Argentinian Grupo Madi. Her work also chimes with her peers from the U.S. school such as Barnett Newman and Leon Polk Smith. Reflecting on this period, she says, “I began a lifelong process of purification, a process of taking away what isn’t essential” (2005). While allied with Latin American non-representational concrete painting, Herrera’s body of work has established, quietly but steadily, a cross-cultural dialogue within the international history of modernist abstraction. Carmen Herrera was born in Havana, Cuba in 1915. She moved frequently between France and Cuba throughout the 1930s and 1940s; having started studying architecture at the Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba (1938–39), she trained at the Art Students League, New York, NY, USA (1942–43), before exhibiting five times at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (1949–53). She settled in New York in 1954, where she continues to live and work. Herrera’s paintings were the subject of a large-scale survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA (September 2016 – January 2017), which travels to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20) in Dusseldorf, Germany from 2 December 2017 until 8 April 2018. A selection of Herrera's recent paintings and Estructuras inaugurated Lisson Gallery New York’s 24th Street exhibition space in May 2016. Herrera has also had solo exhibitions at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (2010); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2009); and Museo del Barrio, New York City, USA (1998). She has been included in the group shows 'Post War: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-1965', Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2016); ‘Order, Chaos and the Space Between’, Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona, USA (2013); and ‘The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction’, Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska, USA (2012). She was awarded two fellowships from the Cintas Foundation, New York, USA (1966–68) and a grant by the Creative Artists Public Service, New York, USA (1977). Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; the Tate Collection, London, UK; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; and the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA.
Actualizado
el 17 feb de 2021Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) / Houston, Texas, Estados Unidos
The Perimeter / London, London, City of, Reino Unido
Lisson Gallery New York 1 / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
Nader Art Museum Latin America (NAMLA) / Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
El Museo del Barrio / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
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