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Carter Burden Gallery presents the work of Margo Herr in the exhibition Flowers, Boats and Birds. Herr focused on forms that were personal metaphors for change and the inner spiritual journey. Although her paintings derive from these objects, her work was always a balance of pure abstraction and identifiable subject matter. Poised between these two ideas she expressed the mystery of forms that inspired her through the intensity of her painting technique. Herr’s use of watercolor, collage, and typography in her book jacket designs led to the continual reappearance of these same techniques in …