Light of Mine

Alexander Harrison

BornNationalityBased In
1993AmericanBrooklyn
Biography

Exploring questions of race and personal and universal notions of home, Alexander Harrison creates small-scaled, subtle yet stark acrylic paintings, often placing his subject within the dazzling composition of frames, windows and arches. They often feature recurring symbols, such as fruits, flowers and figures. Harrison’s work is racially charged iconography. His vivid painting Welcome to New York (2019) depicts a Black cowboy taking a bite out of an apple. From inside the apple, a small but sinister worm emerges. Harrison’s trompe l’oeil paintings are at once spacious and claustrophobic, drawing on his experience growing up as a Black man in the American South. The familiarity of rural landscapes and everyday objects becomes twisted in the eerie atmosphere of the artist’s dark surrealism. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Let the sun in
Alexander Harrison
Let the sun in, 2019
61 x 45.7 x 5.1cm
Spring n’ Fall
Alexander Harrison
Spring n’ Fall, 2019
122 x 106.6 x 5.7cm
Quiet
Alexander Harrison
Quiet, 2019
25.4 x 25.4 x 5.7cm
Gimme Flowers
Alexander Harrison
Gimme Flowers, 2019
20.3 x 20.3 x 5cm
The Moon
Alexander Harrison
The Moon, 2021
76.2 x 76.2cm
Butterfly “Spring Breeze”
Alexander Harrison
Butterfly “Spring Breeze”, 2019
40.6 x 40.6 x 5cm
Golden Hour
Alexander Harrison
Golden Hour, 2019
61 x 46 x 5cm
Light of Mine
Alexander Harrison
Light of Mine, 2021
91.4 x 76.2cm
If I Had one Wish
Alexander Harrison
If I Had one Wish, 2021
12.7 x 17.8cm
Midnight Picnic
Alexander Harrison
Midnight Picnic, 2021
12.7 x 17.8cm
Counting Sheep
Alexander Harrison
Counting Sheep, 2021
20.3 x 20.3cm
Blue Bruise
Alexander Harrison
Blue Bruise, 2021
20.3 x 20.3cm
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