Derrick Adams - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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  • “When we get together, it isn’t just to have a party. We might be planning a revolution at the same time.”
    – Derrick Adams

    • Provenance

      Mary Boone Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Derrick Adams: New Icons, March 7–April 20, 2019

    • 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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Floater 82

acrylic and fabric collage on paper
50 x 49 5/8 in. (127 x 126 cm)
Executed in 2019.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$35,000 - 55,000 

Sold for $75,600

Contact Specialist

Patrizia Koenig
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
+1 212 940 1279
pkoenig@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022