26.5.23 - 'Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings' opens today at The Hepworth Wakefield
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings opens today at The Hepworth Wakefield.
Hurvin Anderson first painted a Birmingham-based barbershop in 2006. Over the last 15 years, Anderson has repeatedly reworked the same barbershop in a multitude of ways to explore key painting styles, shifting from figuration to abstraction, and experimenting with the classic genres of still life, landscape and portraiture.
The exhibition focuses on Anderson’s Barbershop series of paintings as a lens through which to understand his wider practice and central concerns of memory, identity and nationhood.
Alongside the Salon Paintings exhibition, Hurvin Anderson Curates displays 20th century paintings drawn from public collections in the UK to take visitors on a journey through the artist's formative influences and highlight the importance of art historical references in his work.
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings
Exhibition dates: 26 May–5 November 2023
The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk
Wakefield
WF1 5AW
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Hurvin Anderson first painted a Birmingham-based barbershop in 2006. Over the last 15 years, Anderson has repeatedly reworked the same barbershop in a multitude of ways to explore key painting styles, shifting from figuration to abstraction, and experimenting with the classic genres of still life, landscape and portraiture.
The exhibition focuses on Anderson’s Barbershop series of paintings as a lens through which to understand his wider practice and central concerns of memory, identity and nationhood.
Alongside the Salon Paintings exhibition, Hurvin Anderson Curates displays 20th century paintings drawn from public collections in the UK to take visitors on a journey through the artist's formative influences and highlight the importance of art historical references in his work.
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings
Exhibition dates: 26 May–5 November 2023
The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk
Wakefield
WF1 5AW