{"id":12501,"date":"2025-07-14T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:27:58","slug":"carmen-herrera-the-paris-years-at-lisson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/14\/carmen-herrera-the-paris-years-at-lisson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmen Herrera, &#8216;The Paris Years&#8217; at Lisson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before settling in New York in the mid 1950s, Carmen Herrera transformed her practice from biomorphic to geometric abstraction during a five year stay in Paris (1948-1953).\u00a0 Work from that time at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lissongallery.com\/exhibitions\/carmen-herrera-the-paris-years-1948-1953\">Lisson Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea sees her experimenting with variations on each style not in a linear progression toward purged form but rather with a varying vocabulary of geometric and curving shapes.\u00a0 Seen here, the largest piece she\u2019d made to date, Early Dynasty\u2019 (1953), employs just two colors in a play between foreground and background shapes that creates lively spatial complexity. (On view in Chelsea through Aug 1<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/0bbd8f52-bb38-5902-19b2-9082ba0be99d.jpg\" alt=\"A pattern of non representational shapes in red and black on a canvas.\" width=\"3319\" height=\"3321\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Herrera, Early Dynasty, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 x 1 \u00bc inches, 1953.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before settling in New York in the mid 1950s, Carmen Herrera transformed her practice from biomorphic to geometric abstraction during a five year stay in Paris (1948-1953).\u00a0 Work from that time at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea sees her experimenting with variations on each style not in a linear progression toward purged form but rather with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/14\/carmen-herrera-the-paris-years-at-lisson-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carmen Herrera, &#8216;The Paris Years&#8217; at Lisson Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[336,8536,11405,9340,856,33,3144,11406],"class_list":["post-12501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract-art","tag-carmen-herrera","tag-early-dynasty","tag-lisson-gallery","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-paris","tag-paris-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3fD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}