Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American geometric abstractionist who achieved recognition late in life, dies at 107

Carmen Herrera, an American artist originally from Cuba, has passed away. Renowned for her geometric abstract sculptures and paintings, her art features flat color planes arranged in shapes such as rectangles, triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms, often creating a sense of balance or tension. Notable works include 'Black & Orange' (1989) and 'Equilibrio' (2017). Her large aluminum sculpture 'Estructura Verde' (2018), inspired by a painting from 1966, is currently displayed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Born in Cuba in 1915, she studied architecture in Havana and later moved to Paris and New York, where she met Barnett Newman and shifted away from figuration around 1950. Her first painting sold at age 89. In 2004, her work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), followed by a solo show in 2007. A significant survey of her art took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016, alongside other international retrospectives. Her style incorporated elements of hard edge, op art, and neo-concretism.