Derrick Adams
American • b. 1970
Biography
Through the mediums of collage, video, sculpture and drawing, Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams explores the way mass media affects identity, particularly in the context of African Americans in contemporary culture.
In his collage works mimicking television screens, Adams takes his source imagery from screen captures of old clips from YouTube, which he then uses as reference. “The images come from…everything from ‘Good Times’ to ‘Coming to America’ to Oprah on the news…These images I’m taking from all these shows—from comedy to news or whatever—all are representations of black characterization…These images can be problematic because they’re such a high-animated state that they become more like caricatures of themselves”. In rendering these reference images with blocks of color, Adams confronts the media’s deconstruction of reality.
Insights
Selected museum exhibitions and performances: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA PS1, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Brooklyn Museum, New York; PERFORMA, New York
“Most of my work resides in this idea of how outside influences impact the construction of self-image.”
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Interior Life (Woman)
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Interior Life (Man)
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Figure in the Urban Landscape 37
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Sold for $152,400
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Style Variation 4
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Sold for $215,900
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King, from Game Changing
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Sold for $15,750
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Interior Life (Man)
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Sold for £4,032
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Floater 82
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Sold for $75,600
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Colorbar Constellation 6 (Sanford and Son)
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Figure in the Urban Landscape 2
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Sold for $69,300
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Woman and Man in Grayscale
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Sold for £2,520
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Interior Life (Woman)
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Sold for $10,080
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You've Been Served
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Sold for $78,120
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Party Guest 1 (We Came to Party and Plan Series)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,772
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The Queen of Spades (Edition B)
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Sold for $2,772
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Boy on Swan Float
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,710
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Interior Life (Woman); and Interior Life (Man)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $10,080
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The Institute for Architectural Practices
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $12,600
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Holding Court (The Queen of Spades), Edition A
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,780
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Countess N and Lizaveta Ivanovna (The Queen of Spades), Edition A
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Sold for $6,300
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Interior Life (Figure 13)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £25,200
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Self Portrait on Float
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £9,450
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Floater
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $7,500
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Floater 20 from the series Floaters
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $65,000
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Turtle Floats
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $9,375
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