Exhibitions
Hurvin Anderson: Opportunity for Passengers in Miami
Figuration and abstraction come together in Hurvin Anderson's Opportunity for Passengers at the Pérez Art Museum in downtown Miami. Inspired by the murals of Carl Abrahams, the British artist combines vibrant colors with complex textures to evoke memory and nostalgia. The Miami museum features sixteen art panels where the work addresses tensions between the urban and the natural.
His paintings explore universal spaces and the visual repertoire of landscape tradition. The journey stems from inspiration from recent trips to Miami and Jamaica, drawing on the artist's Jamaican heritage. Memory, place, and migration are a Big Three of themes in his iconography, transforming familiar spaces into compelling and intimate visual narratives.
Based on Carl Abrahams' murals at Kingston International Airport, Jamaica's capital, Passenger Opportunity is a clear homage to his Caribbean heritage and a vivid reflection on cultural exchange and displacement. The artist, reflecting on the importance of Jamaica's history and the rich history of the Caribbean in general, began conceiving ideas for the present exhibition during those travels.
"Hurvin Anderson is a painter consumed by craft and interested in the deep history of painting. While we had been discussing a project for some time, this show is the result of the confluence of different journeys with the Caribbean as a focal point," said Franklin Sirmans, director of PAMM, a museum located at the eastern end of Maurice A. Ferré Park, right on the shore of Biscayne Bay.
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