This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of
British-born Jamaican artist Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965). Anderson is
known for painting lush and loosely rendered observations of scenes and
spaces loaded with personal meaning.
Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson is best known for his
brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes and interior
scenes--particularly those relating to his upbringing in the
Afro-Caribbean community in the Midlands of England, as well as more
recent trips to the Caribbean. Anderson's luscious paintings have
hybridity at their heart. A tug-of-war plays out between abstraction and
figuration, nature versus the manmade, beauty and menace, and his
British and Jamaican heritage.
Born in the United Kingdom as a member of the Jamaican diaspora,
Anderson relates to the Caribbean as both insider and outsider, aware of
the mythmaking that the idea of lost or future paradise generates. This
book, Anderson's first major monograph, has been carefully curated by
the artist himself and includes paintings, sketches, source material and
ephemera, and studio shots. The volume also features a foreword by
Courtney J. Martin, an in-depth and deeply considered essay by art
historian Catherine Lampert, poems by Roger Robinson, and an illustrated
chronology.
