Untitled

Working in a variety of mediums and techniques, Carmen Herrera created hard-edged abstract works that reflected her mission to discover "the simplest of pictorial resolutions." Herrera's works reflect the interactions of color and form and that of the works and the space in which they are displayed. Her geometric compositions are informed by her training in architecture in her native Cuba and early sculptures, as well as her five years in Paris between 1948 and 1954. Herrera continued to make art with sharp linesgeometricic forms, and flat planes of color for several decades. Despite the power of her art and the respect of artistic peers such as Barnett Newman, Herrera faced great discrimination in the art world and rarely exhibited her work for most of her life. She sold her first painting at age 89. She later had numerous solo exhibitions before she passed away at age 106. In this untitled intaglio print, Herrera shows the power of her reductive visual language.