One Time

Arturo Herrera’s works are beautifully composed yet strangely unsettling. Elegant lines create languid, looping rhythms. Although abstract, the shapes they define look vaguely familiar, like something to which you can’t quite put a name. In all of his works, Herrera creates a cryptic mixture of associative imagery by superimposing disparate fragments on top of one another. These include snippets of body parts from children’s animations, cropped landscape elements reminiscent of fairy tale settings, and the silhouetted drips of painterly gestures. The resulting visual jumble, here realized in the humble material of wool felt, triggers personal memories and encourages intuitive interpretations. The work’s enigmatic title suggests both the passage of time and a state of being. Indeed, it is transitory awareness—the process of perception, the realization of disorientation—that most intrigues the artist.