Derrick Adams - New Now New York Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2018

  • Exhibited

    Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Derrick Adams: Tell Me Something Good, February 24–April 15, 2017

  • Artist Biography

    Derrick Adams

    American • 1970

    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. 

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You've Been Served

signed and dated "Derrick Adams 2017" on the reverse
acrylic, cardboard, printed paper and fabric collage on paper mounted to archival museum board
31 1/2 x 47 3/4 in. (80 x 121.3 cm)
Executed in 2016-2017.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $78,120

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen

Head of Sale, New Now

212 940 1207

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New Now

New York Auction 9 March 2022