Intrigued with how structures in the built environment contrast with the natural world, Babette Herschberger works intuitively to create minimal, abstract compositions which emphasize color, form and surface. Considering her collage process as a way of drawing within painting, Herschberger’s works often incorporate informal and banal materials, such as found cardboard and product packaging, which she transforms through boldly colored planes and forms generating works that suggest objects, structures and landscapes. Her signature bold color palette and experimentation with form result in exhibitions that transcend traditional presentation. Her works are unconventionally placed throughout space, like the visual rhythms of sheet music, pieces are arranged to create melodic relationships.

In her exhibition Taproot, Babette formally introduces the viewer to her ceramic work, a medium she has pursued for several years alongside her painting practice. Her aim with this exhibition is to convey her language in the use of a variety of materials and mediums.

ABOUT BABETTE HERSCHBERGER
Herschberger has exhibited widely across the US and was an artist in residence at ArtCenter South Florida/Oolite Arts in Miami. In 2021 Herschberger’s work was included in Skyway and exhibited at the University of South Florida’s Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also exhibited at the NSU Art Museum/Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Gulf Coast University Gallery, the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, and has been represented during Art Basel/Miami at the Pulse and Scope art fairs. Her work was published in New American Paintings, edition #112, and is in the collection of Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design as well as a number of corporate collections. Babette completed her AS in graphic design with honors at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.