{"id":13354,"date":"2016-09-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/carmen-herrera-lines-of-sight-opens-whitney-museum\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:19:47","slug":"carmen-herrera-lines-of-sight-opens-whitney-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/carmen-herrera-lines-of-sight-opens-whitney-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Meets Architecture: \u201cCarmen Herrera: Lines of Sight\u201d Opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban-born and architecturally trained, 101-year-old Carmen Herrera has been a practicing artist since she moved to New York in 1939. Why, then, has she only begun to receive due recognition in the last decade?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n Green and Orange, 1958, Collection of Paul and Trudy Cejas<\/i><\/p>\n

According to Dana Miller, former Richard DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a>, Herrera\u2019s identity as a woman and an immigrant explains why she was shut out of the American abstract art canon for years. Miller hopes to change that with \u201cCarmen Herrera: Lines of Sight,\u201d<\/a> opening today. The exhibition presents the first close examination of the artist\u2019s early career, with work spanning 1948 to 1978. In 50 pieces on canvas, paper and freestanding acrylic-on-wood, Herrera displays her signature hard-edge style and unites her architecture background with her abstract practice. Although Herrera never worked in architecture after leaving Havana, Cuba, for New York, a spacial awareness permeates her art.<\/p>\n

\u201cArchitecture school was where she learned to render three-dimensional form and translate it onto two-dimensional canvases,\u201d says Miller, who in organizing this exhibition spent countless hours with Herrera in the artist\u2019s studio. \u201cIn all of these paintings here, she was thinking about them in an architectonic way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n Amarillo \u201cDos\u201d, 1971, Maria Graciela and Luis Alfonso Oberto Collection<\/i><\/p>\n

With the exhibition\u2019s last room devoted to Herrera\u2019s three-dimensional work, like the bright yellow Amarillo \u201cDos\u201d<\/i>,<\/i>1971, Miller hopes the abundance of isometric forms will prompt visitors to reconsider the show\u2019s other two-dimensional works and see their engagement with spacial planes.<\/p>\n

The Whitney began its vigorous reexamination of Herrera\u2019s oeuvre in the 2014 lead-up to the opening of the new Renzo Piano\u2013designed Whitney building<\/a>, purchasing the bold, beautiful Blanco y Verde,<\/i> 1959. Just as she was an outsider to the Whitney circle of abstract artists, which included the likes of Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly, so, too, was she to architectural practice. The fact that her recent ascent into the canon of art history involved both the art and architecture elite, then, is a triumph, an ultimate testament to her validity in both spheres.<\/p>\n

\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n A City, 1948, Private Collection, Siete, 1949, Collection of Paul and Trudy Cejas<\/i><\/p>\n

Whitney Director Adam Weinberg capped off his opening remarks at the exhibition\u2019s preview with an emphatic declaration: \u201cThis is an important show for the Whitney. It\u2019s an important show for New York. It\u2019s an important show for the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just as important for the integration of art and architecture.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarmen Herrera: Lines of Sight\u201d is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from Sept. 16, 2016, to Jan. 2, 2017. Visit the exhibition webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n

All photos by Lucy Wang; top image via <\/i>BlouinArtinfo<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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