Hurvin Anderson, ‘Peter’s Series: Back’, 2008, Courtesy the artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, Photo: Ira Schrank

British painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, Birmingham, United Kingdom) takes private and public gathering spaces as his primary subjects.

Adam Pendleton’s studio, Dawit Petros’s studio, Khalif Kelly’s studio

An artist’s studio. Not your usual studio, as there are in evidence no brushes, no color, no canvases. Instead is the clutter of found objects…

The above description of David Hammons’s Harlem studio in the early 1990s could also be applied, in fact and spirit, to the Artist-in-Residence studios now occupied by Khalif Kelly, Adam Pendleton and Dawit Petros.

Photo: Russell Watson

Each January, The Studio Museum in Harlem pulls together a group of insightful and highly motivated teens from all over New York to explore the themes of the work of celebrated Harlem Renaissance photographer James VanDerZee.