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Derrick Adams
How I Spent My Summer
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- $20,000 - 30,000
$40,640
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The complete set of nine screenprints and digital prints in colors, five with collage, on Coventry Rag and German Etching papers, the full sheets.
2021
all S. 18 x 18 in. (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
All signed, dated and annotated 'BAT' in pencil (the good-to-print proofs, the edition was 20 and 4 artist's proofs), published by the Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., New York (one with their blindstamp), all framed.
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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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