Arturo Herrera’s multimedia work engages the legacies of Modernism through the visual strategies of fragmentation, repetition, and reconstruction. His bold, layered compositions revel in the tension between what is revealed and what is concealed, and the mutability of images within different pictorial contexts. Painterly gestures and found imagery adjoin and overlap with flat abstraction and gaps in color; like pauses in a piece of music, the intentional creation of space amongst forms becomes its own unit of meaning.

In his recent body of cut-out felt collages, Herrera continues to explore the essential nature of negative spaces when reading a work. These large-scale works are composed of a dense network of matte felt overlaid upon an acrylic or collaged abstraction. The apertures created by the felt fragments paradoxically expose the larger work concealed beneath, which cannot ever be experienced in its totality. It is precisely this dependent relationship between the opaque felt cut-outs and the underlying compositions that energize the works in a reciprocal manner.