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Arturo Herrera BIOGRAPHY
Born 1959 Caracas, Venezuela. Known for: Cartoon style pop culture paintings, collage, sculpture, photography, wall hangings.
Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery. It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his... Read full biography
Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery. It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his essentially one-trick-pony career, exemplified by large droopy wall pieces in thick felt with cutout shapes... Read full biography
Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery. It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his essentially one-trick-pony career, exemplified by large droopy wall pieces in thick felt with cutout shapes based on Walt Disney characters — that you could see if you were so informed. But in his first New York gallery show in almost four years, Mr. Herrera has expanded beyond fashionable,... Read full biography
Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery. It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his essentially one-trick-pony career, exemplified by large droopy wall pieces in thick felt with cutout shapes based on Walt Disney characters — that you could see if you were so informed. But in his first New York gallery show in almost four years, Mr. Herrera has expanded beyond fashionable, pop-culture-inflected inscrutability, heading into riskier terrain that is more personal and experiential. Basically, it's form over concept in these layered, disorienting amalgams of painting, collage and assemblage — whose origins, it should be noted, include the... Read full biography
Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery. It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his essentially one-trick-pony career, exemplified by large droopy wall pieces in thick felt with cutout shapes based on Walt Disney characters — that you could see if you were so informed. But in his first New York gallery show in almost four years, Mr. Herrera has expanded beyond fashionable, pop-culture-inflected inscrutability, heading into riskier terrain that is more personal and experiential. Basically, it's form over concept in these layered, disorienting amalgams of painting, collage and assemblage — whose origins, it should be noted, include the juxtapositions in David Salle's paintings. In Mr. Herrera's smallish hybrids, the cutout felt continues and one recurrin... Read full biography
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Following is a New York Times exhibition review, November 13, 2014., Sikkema Jenkins & Company Gallery
It's never too late to step up your game. Arturo Herrera could have continued with his essentially one-trick-pony career, exemplified by large droopy wall pieces in thick felt with cutout shapes based on Walt Disney characters — that you could see if you were so informed.
But in his first New York gallery show in almost four years, Mr. Herrera has expanded beyond fashionable, pop-culture-inflected inscrutability, heading into riskier terrain that is more personal and experiential. Basically, it's form over concept in these layered, disorienting amalgams of painting, collage and assemblage — whose origins, it should...But wait, there's more...
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