Carmen Herrera embraces shape, stepping away from the long history of painting as framed rectangles and transforming a familiar square into a surprising diamond.

Herrera studied architecture and art in her native Cuba. The complexity of three-dimensional space deeply informs her paintings. This can be seen by the white lines appearing to move out from the center of Cerulean. Though flush against the wall, the artist refers to her abstract paintings like this one as “a cut in space.”