Hurvin Anderson: Peter's Series 2007-2009 September 17, 2009

This exhibition will include seven paintings and nine works on paper by British artist Hurvin Anderson that engage traditions of landscape painting and abstraction. Fascinated with places of social interaction, Anderson captures the unique social and cultural space of a small attic barbershop established in the home of Caribbean immigrants. Like many of Anderson's other works, the pieces in "Peter's Series" started as photographs. These he took one day while waiting for his father to finish getting a haircut. Finding the space both complex and ambiguous, Anderson explored the technical exercise of recreating it many times; continually reducing the interior architecture to its basic colors and simple geometric forms.