Property from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives
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Derrick Adams
Game Changing
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- $15,000 - 25,000
$25,400
Lot Details
The complete set of four screenprints in colors with gold leaf, on Magnani Incisioni paper, the full sheets.
2015
all S. 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
All signed, dated and annotated 'LESP' in pencil (Lower East Side Printshop archive proofs, the edition was 16 and 3 artist's proofs), published by the Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., New York (with their blindstamp), all unframed.
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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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