This spring, SITE Santa Fe presents three exhibitions featuring the works of Carmen Herrera, Arturo Herrera, and Erin Shirreff. Arturo Herrera and Erin Shirreff’s exhibitions are on view through May 27, while Carmen Herrera’s is on view through September 16 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Carmen Herrera: I’m Nobody! Who are you?
This solo exhibition features later works by Cuban-born American abstract minimalist artist Carmen Herrera (1915–2022). The iconic painter dedicated herself to exploring abstraction through minimalist principles for over eight decades, striving for what she believed to be the most basic and pure visual solutions, simplifying compositions to shape, line, and vibrant color. She considered lines not just the building blocks of all shapes and forms, but the power to construct, connect, simplify, and define.
Arturo Herrera: You are here
You are here is the first solo exhibition in New Mexico of German-based/Venezuelan-born artist Arturo Herrera. The exhibition spans almost three decades of Herrera’s work (from 1998 to today), showcasing sculpture, relief, painting, mixed media works on paper, collage, photography, glass, felt wall hangings, and two newly commissioned works: an architectural intervention titled “Split” (2023), installed in the Wallerstein Family Courtyard and Terrace, and “Quarry” (2024), a large-scale site-specific wall painting.
Erin Shirreff: Folded stone
Folded Stone is a solo exhibition of new and recent multimedia works by Canadian artist Erin Shirreff, whose spare, evocative works pose fundamental questions about how art is received and remembered. Though trained as a sculptor, Shirreff works across mediums and centers her practice on acts of material translation, revealing how sculpture’s defining traits — real space and live encounter — adjust when filtered through other formats.
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