Arturo Herrera's Night Before Last/Chicago

The final piece in Arturo Herrera’s Night Before Last series, this mural was created for a long wall with horizontal exposure facing the public entrance of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building.  The viewer is drawn into the work by recognizable imagery, and the mixture of familiar and abstract shapes encourages further references and associations. Like most of Herrera’s work, this piece was conceived as a collage, combining the formal languages of popular culture and fine art to reveal relationships between perception and interpretation of visual images.