Carmen Herrera @ Lisson Gallery

Carmen Herrera’s exhibition features a new body of work created within the last year. It features a large Estructura, along with a number of paintings and works on paper, her most ambitious work to date. Herrera is known for her geometric lyricism and vibrant abstractions, and produces dynamic compositions that convey movement and rhythm through a careful balance of lines, forms and colours. Her work embraces an approach that is at once meditative and reflective, daring and bold, and evokes a simultaneous sense of instability and order, encompassing symmetry and asymmetry, shadow and light. Rather than tricks to fool the eye, her intent is to sharpen it.
Her current work Pavanne, is Herrera’s largest structure to date, originally conceived in 1967 as a monument in dedication to her younger brother, who was dying of cancer.