Helen Gerardia: Architect of Negative Space Born in Ekaterinoslav, Russia – now Dnipropetrovsk – in 1903, Helen Gerardia’s artistic journey was one shaped by both a rich cultural heritage and the transformative experiences of immigration. Her early life, steeped in Russian traditions, provided a foundational understanding of color and form that would later inform her distinctive approach to abstraction. Moving to the United States as…