Lisson Gallery Surveys Carmen Herrera's Final Decade of Line, Form and Colour

Curated by art historian Marie Perennès, a Lisson exhibition gathers drawings, paintings and sculpture that Carmen Herrera made during the last ten years of her life. The presentation positions these late pieces as the culmination of an eighty-year investigation into line, form and colour rather than as epilogues. Herrera was born in Havana in 1915 and trained as an architect during the 1930s. She relocated to New York in 1939 and studied at the Art Students League in the early 1940s. Between 1948 and 1953 she lived in Paris, and it was there that her practice moved away from the lyrical abstraction of her early canvases toward the hard-edge purity that would define her work. A direct contemporary of New York School painters Barnett Newman and Jackson Pollock, Herrera ranks among the great unsung exponents of geometric abstraction, pursuing her sequence with resolve. The show frames that long enquiry as reaching its vital conclusion in the work of her final decade.