August 2007

Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce the publication of Portrait, a sculptural edition by Arturo Herrera. The work is composed of three large curvilinear metal cut-outs; each laser-cut from 3/16^th inch mirror finished stainless steel. The trio of shapes is mounted in a horizontal row, floating just off the wall and creating a slight shadow. While the mirrored surfaces reflect the viewer in each, the thin, ribbon-like shapes defy a clear reflection. The artist's title playfully refers to this situation: each piece hints at, and then recedes from, an actual 'portrait' of the viewer. The shapes themselves will seem familiar to fans of Herrera's work. While basically abstract, they are in fact composed from the lines of cartoon hands that have been layered, reassembled and woven into the shimmering tangled nests that make up Portrait.

Arturo Herrera has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including venues at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.

Group exhibitions have included Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Transforming Chronologies: an Atlas of Drawings, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME; MoMA at El Museo, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ; Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy; The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA; Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; ForwArt, Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, BBL, Brussels, Belgium; Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket, London, England; Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL; The Photogenic: Photography through it's Metaphors in Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Urgent Painting, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris France; The Americans, Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London, England; Max2001. All About Paint, Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; NeverNeverLand, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Painting at the Edge of the World, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Políticas de la diferencia. Arte Iberoamericano de fin de siglo, Pavillao Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; Redrawing the Line, Art in General, New York, NY; A Collaborative Art: The Artist and the Printmaking Studio, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX; Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, NY; Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Color Me Blind!, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland & Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany.; From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Life Cycles, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany; Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; TroubleSpot, Painting, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Arturo Herrera and Carla Preiss, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY; Some Late 20th Century Abstraction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA; Arturo Herrera and Steven Rotter, PS 122, New York, NY; and Selections Spring '94: The Sick Rose, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Arturo Herrera is represented in New York by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Other artworks by Arturo Herrera