Adams, Derrick

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Derrick Adams

American, (born 1970-)

 
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Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams is a Baltimore-born, Brooklyn, New York-based artist whose critically admired work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound installations. His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image, and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another. Derrick Adams is deeply immersed in questions of how African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism. Adams embraces the idea of "Black Joy" in the work, where the paintings are showing subjects that are both beautiful to look at and portraying black life as successful and joyful.

 

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Figure in the Urban Landscape 19 (Copy)

Adams, Derrick (born 1970–)
Figure in the Urban Landscape 20, 2018
Acrylic, graphite, ink, fabric on paper collage, grip tape, and model cars on wood panel

Figure in the Urban Landscape 19

Adams, Derrick (born 1970–)
Figure in the Urban Landscape 19, 2018
Acrylic, graphite, ink, fabric on paper collage, grip tape, and model cars on wood panel

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