Essays, Criticism Gabriel Almeida Essays, Criticism Gabriel Almeida

A Farewell to Carmen Herrera

The space of Herrera’s paintings is not the real space we “inhabit” in the gallery or otherwise, but rather the illusory world of images and vision. Hers is the dream ground which, for over hundreds of years, artists have used to tell us stories, to perpetuate the likeness of people and landscapes, or reflect their feelings and visions materialized in objects.

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Reviews, Reflections Grant Tyler Reviews, Reflections Grant Tyler

Lauren Quin in Quickening

The layered surface cascades into itself as quickly as it interrupts itself. It vibrates like a field of electricity, full of chaos and psychedelic apparitions, and yet is held together by an arresting unity which appears to emerge at once from above and below — that is, it appears as calculated as it does spontaneous.

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