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Derrick Adams
The Queen of Spades (Edition B)
- Estimate
- $2,000 - 3,000
$2,772
Lot Details
The complete set of two pigment prints in colors, on Hotpress paper, the full sheets with text, all contained in the original red cloth-covered folio.
2015
both S. 15 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (38.7 x 29.2 cm)
Both signed dated and numbered 'II/II P.P' in pencil on the reverse (printer's proofs, the edition was 18, there were also 3 artist's proofs) published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including: Holding Court; and Countess N and Lizaveta Ivanovna
Derrick Adams
American | 1970Through 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.
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