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Derrick Adams (born 1970) is an American visual and performance artist and curator. Much of Adams' work is centered around his Black identity, frequently referencing patterns, images, and themes of Black culture in America.
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Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams' work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance.
Jewels Dodson visited artist Derrick Adams at his New York studio as he prepared for an exhibition of new paintings in Los Angeles in the fall of 2023. She reports on these works and on Adams’s embrace of joy, humor, and contradiction.
Feb 16, 2023 · In “I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You,” his knockout show at the Flag Art Foundation in Chelsea, Derrick Adams does just that. What he mainly reveals is a new level of maturity and ...
Apr 1, 2021 · Adams, 51, a genial, laid-back dynamo whose multidisciplinary art practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, sound installations, video, performance, and fashion, gained widespread...
Black people—not entertaining, just being, living. Letting people deal with that as reality.'–Derrick Adams. Read More. Derrick Adams celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance.
