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Pink Thing of The Day: Shocking Pink By Carmen Herrera

Shocking Pink 1949
Photo By Gail

Shocking Pink (1949) By Carmen Herrera is your Pink Thing of the Day, not because it is an all-pink thing, but because of its lively title!

Herrera is a 101-year-old Cuban American artist who has a retrospective of her work, Lines of Sight, up at the Whitney Museum in NYC through January 9th, 2017, if you want to see more of her amazing paintings and sculptures.

Carmen Herrera, Lines of Sight at The Whitney Museum

Installation Sculptures 2
Installation View (All Photos By Gail)

Most of the better-known artists of the Geometric Abstraction school of art — such as Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, and Frank Stella — are men; but that doesn’t mean there were no equally talented  women artists working alongside these giants, just because we don’t know about them. Continue reading Carmen Herrera, Lines of Sight at The Whitney Museum