About

Arturo Herrera’s multimedia work engages the legacies of Modernism through the visual strategies of fragmentation, repetition, and reconstruction. “A divided body is richer and more complex than the whole figure,” he explains. His bold, layered compositions revel in the tension between what is revealed and what is concealed, and the mutability of images within different pictorial contexts. Painterly gestures and found imagery adjoin and overlap with flat abstraction and gaps in color, while the ghosted vestiges of bodily figures hint at a familiar presence. Like pauses in a piece of music, …