To Protect and Serve, 2012 by Lavar Munroe
Lavar Munroe is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, and a hybrid medium that straddles the line between sculpture and painting.
Munroe was born in Nassau, the Bahamas where he lived in community of Grants Town until 2004. In his youth he was challenged by the many stigmas and stereotypes associated with that community: a world of gang violence, drugs murder. Today his work reflects on the environment of his upbringing as he maps a personal journey of trauma and survival overcoming obstacles through self-determination, self-discovery and personal development. Though his creative work is inspired by the past, Munroe’s loud, energetic and unapologetic visual language confronts contemporary society and strained and difficult relationships between formal authority and the people of the ghetto.
To Protect and Serve, 2012 by Lavar Munroe
Lavar Munroe is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation art, and a hybrid medium that straddles the line between sculpture and painting.
Munroe was born in Nassau, the Bahamas where he lived in community of Grants Town until 2004. In his youth he was challenged by the many stigmas and stereotypes associated with that community: a world of gang violence, drugs murder. Today his work reflects on the environment of his upbringing as he maps a personal journey of trauma and survival overcoming obstacles through self-determination, self-discovery and personal development. Though his creative work is inspired by the past, Munroe’s loud, energetic and unapologetic visual language confronts contemporary society and strained and difficult relationships between formal authority and the people of the ghetto.