Painting in Process

Status

For Sale

Price

On request

Collect24 Art ID

C24-154405

This publication highlights a selection of works by Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera (born 1915) from 2010 to 2020. Herrera developed her signature geometric style over the course of decades spent in New York City and postwar Paris, as well as her hometown of Havana; however, it was only in the early 2000s that she began to receive acclaim for her work. The origins of her process trace back to her early studies in architecture at the Universidad de La Habana in Cuba from 1938 to 1939. She often credited this training as where she learned to draw and to think abstractly, stating, “I wouldn’t paint the way I do if I hadn’t gone to architecture school.” While Herrera’s process is often characterized by meticulous constraint and distillation of color and shape, it is perhaps best described as a perfect synergy of artistic and scientific creativity. This catalogue is published after the exhibition ‘Carmen Herrera: Painting in Process’, 10 Sep – 17 Oct 2020, Lisson Gallery, New York.