Carmen Herrera: Colour Me InCarmen Herrera is renowned for her compositions of striking formal simplicity, with crisp lines and precise geometric forms demarcated in vibrant blocks of colour. Continuously seeking to reduce her visual vocabulary, since her mid career Herrera has typically limited her palette to just two colours per painting. These contrasting planes create an optical rhythm, balanced in symmetry and asymmetry across the canvas. Herreras mastery of techniques of

A detailed crop of  Anna Uddenberg's sculpture 'CLIMBER: Pierced Rosebud' printed on a small birch wood tray 27cm x 20cm

we forge them for ourselves

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Herrera was featured in major group exhibitions at Rutgers University in New Jersey

featuring stills from Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape

repetitions or test strips appear - comparable to a proof

The publication is interwoven with full-page colour images and text inserts

here this notion is deliberately stretched and tested

Gregor Muir (Director of International Collections at Tate) and the High Commissioner of Canada in the United Kingdom

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

These works marked an important moment in Herrera’s career

balanced in symmetry and asymmetry across the canvas