84. HURVIN
ANDERSON
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Peter's Sitters 3 2009 Oil on canvas 187 x 147 cm |
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Hurvin
Anderson
Untitled (Black Street) 2000 Oil on canvas 150 x 239 cm |
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Afrosheen 2009 Oil on canvas 250 x 208 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1965,
Birmingham, UK
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London
Studies:
1996-98, MA Painting, Royal College of Art
1991-94 ,BA Hons Fine Art; Painting, Wimbledon School
of Art
1990-91, Foundation, Birmingham Polytechnic
Themes and
style:
A
British painter of Jamaican descent, Anderson has become known for his
interiors and landscapes that bear the hallmarks of his origins. Makeshift
barbershops, public parks, country clubs, botanical gardens and the swimming
pools of his youth are evoked in paint as lingering memories. These "sites
of leisure", as he likes to call them, recur as motifs, sometimes in
series, sometimes years apart, drifting like his imagination through states of
'in-between-ness', adopting the visual languages - and states of mind- of both
England and the Caribbean.
Anderson's work
rightly occupies a place within a rich lineage of British painting; vibrant,
intuitive and atmospheric, yet rigorously structured. The artist continuously
reaffirms this place, perhaps even more vividly than ever in his latest works,
by emphasising the juxtaposition of motifs and networks of grills and grids to
the picture plane.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Art Now: Hurvin Anderson, Tate Britain, London
Hurvin Anderson: Peter's Series 2007-09 Studio Museum, Harlem
2008
Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
Thomas Dane Gallery
2006
Art Basel, Miami
A View on the River Cobre,
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2005
New Paintings,
Thomas Dane, London
2003
The Lime,
David Risley Gallery, London
Thomas Dane, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative,
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Hurvin Anderson / Henriette Grahnert,
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
2006
Crivelli's Nail,
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Archipeinture, artists build architecture,
Le Plateau, Fonds regional d'art contemporain
d'ile-de-France, Paris
Camden Arts Centre, London
2005
Back to Paint,
C & M Arts, New York
EastInternational,
Norwich Gallery, Norwich
Residency at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2003
When in Room,
Lewisham Art House London
2002
Caribbean Contemporary Arts Residency Programme, Trinidad
Cockafuckingdoodledo,
Jeffery Charles Gallery, London
1990 - 2000
Cheltenham Fine Art Research Fellow (Painting)
Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
Awards
Telling Times,
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
1999
Pictures of Pictures,
Arnoldfini, Bristol/Norwich Gallery, Norwich
1998
Forest, The Bull and Last, London
1997
Alkazzi Travel Award, New York
1996
John Crane, New York
1994 - 1995
Inheritance,
Ikon Touring, Birmingham
Fellowships
1994
William Booker Travel Scholarship, Philadelphia
In his own words:
"this is my practice, I paint – and I
try to do other things but I always come back to painting... I find painting a
fascinating thing and a constant battle. It's hard enough to be an
artist."
Representative
Galleries:
Saatchi
Thomas Dane
Michael Werner
Ikon
Anthony Meier
For
more Information:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-the-studio-hurvin-anderson-artist-8901981.html