Herrera’s show, Pasión (Passion), opens September 27, featuring dozens of these and other brightly colored paintings and metal sculptures, each in some way expressing the idea of passion—whether interpreted as intense emotion, or as represented by a capital letter P for the Passion, the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, a frequent subject of Herrera’s works.
“To do something real, like a good piece of art, the passion comes out,” he says. “And that’s what makes the piece more. It’s like my mom and my dad used to say: from one bad thing, a lot of good things come out of it. So, that’s the way I see my life. A lot of bad things happened when I was younger, and they changed me. They made my art stronger. And I’ve never really followed other artists. I follow my instincts and my passion.”
