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Hurvin Anderson
2015

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Jeffrey Uslip

Hurvin Anderson was born in Birmingham, UK, to Jamaican parents. His source material often stems from formative experiences in Birmingham’s Afro-Caribbean community as well as in Trinidad. He is best known for evocative paintings that engage with charged social histories and shifting notions of cultural identity. His depictions of lush Caribbean landscapes and urban barbershops explore themes of memory, place, and the indelible connection between the two. 

This publication features no finished works. Instead, its pages are covered in sketches, collages, photographs and test painting and printing — all at actual size. This means that many pieces are cropped, or others are layered up upon others. Ink-tracings are reproduced on tracing paper; fluorescent orange spray paint is rendered in fluorescent inks. The book is thread sewn up the spine using a sewing machine (in green, red and gold threads), with some red metallic foil across a fluorescent CMYK printed cover that has the texture of a plastic table cloth. 

Print by MM Artbook printing & repro

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