Hurvin Anderson
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Hurvin Anderson
Welcome Series: Margaritas, 2014Woodblock and Screenprint
Saunders Waterford 425gsm38 x 58 5/8 inches
(96.5 x 148.9 cm)Edition of 30© Hurvin Anderson/Durham Press, 2014Further images
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Durham Press is proud to announce Welcome Series: Margaritas, a woodblock and screenprint edition with artist Hurvin Anderson’s. The print, which measures 38 by 58 5/8 inches, combines 71 woodblock relief and 27 screenprint impressions. It is published in an edition of 30.
Margaritas further explores the imagery from Anderson’s previous Welcome Series paintings and prints. In these works, British-born Anderson depicts scenes from the Caribbean, including his parent’s home country Jamaica, and Trinidad where he held a residency in 2002. The series is unified by the motif of security gates, nearly ubiquitous devices used to protect homes and businesses on these islands. For Anderson, these gates convey both physical and emotional distance – a feeling of living between two places, of returning to a “homeland” as not only a stranger, but a foreigner.
Though his work often returns to the same locations and scenes, Anderson reveals different imagery and techniques with each iteration. Margaritas recalls his 2011 print Welcome Series: Black and White, but the incorporation of color and new screenprint and woodblock elements drastically alter the scene. The suggested oscillation of a fan imparts a sense of movement, the receding lines of the bar deepen the illusion of space, and the numerous colors and rich textures allure the viewer. Nevertheless, the security gate's geometric pattern interrupts the landscape and makes it inaccessible. Through a mastery of both silkscreen and relief printing, Anderson expresses these tensions between desire and restriction as well as abstraction and figuration. Margaritas displays many of the motifs of Anderson’s past works, while also demonstrating his ability to integrate two mediums to create stunning, innovative art.
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BiographyHurvin Anderson | Signing the edition "Welcome Series"B. 1965, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
British painter Hurvin Anderson lives and works between London and Cambridgeshire. He studied painting at the Wimbledon College of Art and received his Masters from the Royal College of Art in 1998.
Anderson’s work shifts between abstraction and representation, featuring pared-down compositions that draw on art-historical traditions of still life, landscape, and portraiture. He often depicts barbershops, parks, beaches, and other social places as a means to explore questions about community, identity, and inclusion, especially as it relates to his Jamaican heritage and the Afro Caribbean diaspora.
Anderson has collaborating with Durham Press since 2009, using screenprint, relief, and intaglio to produce abstracted barbershop scenes, mirrors, and portraits, among other subjects.
Represented by Thomas Dane, London, and Michael Werner, New York, Anderson has held several solo exhibitions at each gallery. His numerous solo exhibitions at other venues include Anywhere but Nowhere, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (2021); They have a mind of their own, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo (2019); Backdrop, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2016); and Art Now: Hurvin Anderson Tate Modern, London (2009). In addition, Anderson has also been included in several group exhibitions such as Life Between Islands, Tate Britain, London (2021); Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2020); and Á Cris Ouverts, Les Ateliers de Rennes – Contemporary Art Biennale, Rennes (2018). In 2017, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize and was subsequently represented in the Turner Prize Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England (2017).
Anderson is represented by Michael Werner Gallery in New York and Thomas Dane Gallery in London. His work is in numerous collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate, London.
