In The House, 2010 (series Head Games). Digital c-print, 36 × 30 inches edition of 3 3 a/p .
Fortress Facade, 2009. Faux brick, metallic silver tempera, glitter, textured spray paint on cloth boxing short and ceramic vase (wall sculpture) 56 × 17 × 7 inches.
Black Intellectual, 2009-2010. Painted faux brick paneling, cardigan sweater, composition notebooks, plexiglass case, eyeglass frames, glitter, tempera and wood sculpture 104 × 24 × 24 inches.
The Hidden Entrance, 2009-2010. Painting faux brick, glitter, cloth zippers, textured spray paint and casted concrete figure (wall sculpture) 96 × 115 × 7 inches.
Four In One (The Same League), 2008. Painted faux brick paneling, hooded sweatshirts, glitter, tempera, wood sculpture, 32 × 48 × 6 inches.
The Statue, 2009. Digital c-print and metallic silver paint overlay, 27 × 17 inches. Edition of 3 plus 3 a/p.
The Root of It All, 2010 (series Head Games). Digital c-print, 36 × 24 inches. Edition of 3 3 a/p.
Monument Resting, sculpture (floor) 2009-2010. Metallic silver tempera painted plaster column, pin stripped trousers, suspenders, shirt collar and top hat, 108 × 24 inches.
Derrick Adams is a New York-based artist who works in a wide range of media, including performance, installation, sculpture, and photography. He is preoccupied with consumer objects and American iconography, all influenced by pop culture, television, education, and his black male experience in the US. The artist scripts peformative identities by using environments, costumes, as well as daily objects he collects and reconfigures. He disrupts their functions and therefore exposes their presupposed meaning.
Adams obtained his MFA from Columbia University and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. He is also an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Welcome to Monument City_, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY (2010);_Go Stand Next to the Mountain, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2010); Sometimes I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2009); and Anew, Performa Visual Art Performance Biennial (2005). Selected group exhibitions are 1968: Then and Now, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY (2008); The Pulse of New Brooklyn, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY (2006), and Greater New York, MoMA/PS1, Queens, NY (2005).
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