Carmen Herrera, Angulo Rojo, 2017; Acrylic and aluminum, 84 x 120 7/8 x 19 in.
© Carmen Herrera; Courtesy Lisson Gallery
Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY

Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales is a Public Art Fund project currently on view in City Hall Park. It is the first public art exhibition of outdoor sculptures by New York-based artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915, Havana, Cuba), which is made possible in part by the Fuhrman Family Foundation.

Known primarily as a painter, Herrera began the series in the 1960s with a group of diagrammatic sketches as a way to envision large-scale monochromatic sculptures that would extend the experience of her luminous paintings into three dimensions. With Estructuras Monumentales, this remarkable artist is now able to share her powerful structures with wide ranging audiences for the first time.