{"id":1809,"date":"2023-03-06T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2023-03-06T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:04:45","slug":"gagosian-to-represent-derrick-adams-artist-known-for-vibrant-depictions-of-black-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/gagosian-to-represent-derrick-adams-artist-known-for-vibrant-depictions-of-black-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagosian to Represent Derrick Adams, Artist Known for Vibrant Depictions of Black Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/6177.Derrick-Adams_Headshot_Emil-Horowitz.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Portrait of Derrick Adams with his artwork seen in the background slightly blurred.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto-tag_gagosian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"gagosian\">Gagosian<\/a>\u00a0has taken on the global representation of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_derrick-adams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"derrick-adams\">Derrick Adams<\/a>, one of today\u2019s most beloved artists. Adams will have his first show with Gagosian at the gallery\u2019s location in Beverly Hills, California, in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Adams, who works in mediums such as painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, and public art, is best known for his canvases depicting scenes of Black joy, leisure, and beauty, all done in a distinctive style in which his subjects\u2019 faces are formed via angular and geometric shapes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">His series include \u201cFloaters\u201d (featuring people having fun in a pool), \u201cStyle Variations\u201d (depicting Black mannequin busts that are given distinctive hairstyles), and his most recent body of work, \u201cMotion Picture Paintings\u201d (densely populated scenes that collapse multiple shots from movies made in the artist\u2019s imagination).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cI\u2019m particularly interested in the way that Derrick approaches representations of Black life, thinking about it in relationship to the culture in a way that is expansive,\u201d Antwaun Sargent, a director at Gagosian, told\u00a0<em>ARTnews\u00a0<\/em>in an interview. \u201cIn a Derrick Adams painting, you have any number of references to Black history, Black contemporary life, mundane Black life, but also things like cinema, fashion, and other artists. There\u2019s this real sense of joy. In Derrick\u2019s hands, that\u2019s something that is particularly fresh and original in the way that he explores these different ideas and concepts surrounding Black life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Adams\u2019s upcoming Gagosian exhibition, his first solo in Los Angeles since 2017, will present new work that \u201ccontinues the themes of beauty, joy, and Black history and celebration that Derrick has become known for\u2014all the things that have become signature Derrick Adams,\u201d Sargent said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-full alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Press_MPP_The-Horse-You-Rode-in-On_2022_hires-copy.jpg?w=400\" alt=\"A painting showing a Black man with a green fedora with a feather in the foreground. Behind him is a black-gray horse and two trees. At the bottom reads 'Town &amp; Country'.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Derrick Adams,\u00a0<em>The Horse You Rode In On<\/em>, 2022.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">\u00a9DERRICK ADAMS STUDIO\/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GAGOSIAN<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Adams is currently the subject of a solo show at the Flag Art Foundation in New York, and he has a major public installation,\u00a0<em>The City Is My Refuge<\/em>, on view at Penn Station until June. He recently had surveys at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Hudson River Museum, as well as a site-specific installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a 93-foot-mural commissioned by Milwaukee Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">He is currently at work on a major installation that will be included in the forthcoming exhibition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Beyond Granite<\/a>\u201d that will go on view\u00a0on the National Mall in Washington, DC, this summer, as well as a piece that will be displayed by Art on theMART in Chicago in April. His work is held in the collections of major art institutions, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, which awarded him its Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Speaking on Adams\u2019s seeming omnipresence in museums and public spaces, Sargent said, \u201cThose are the types of artists we represent,\u201d adding that his addition to Gagosian\u2019s roster is \u201ca natural fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Beyond his exhibitions in galleries and museums, Adams also recently established the Last Resort Artist Retreat in his native Baltimore as well as an archive project called the Black Baltimore Digital Database, which is collecting the stories of cultural contributions by historical and contemporary Black Baltimoreans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Sargent added, \u201cDerrick has always been someone that\u2019s been engaged in the art community, and I am excited for him join the gallery because his mission and his vision is something that we don\u2019t shy away from and that we want to encourage and enhance as a gallery artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gagosian\u00a0has taken on the global representation of\u00a0Derrick Adams, one of today\u2019s most beloved artists. Adams will have his first show with Gagosian at the gallery\u2019s location in Beverly Hills, California, in September. Adams, who works in mediums such as painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, and public art, is best known for his canvases depicting scenes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-artist","category-auction","category-events","category-gallery","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gagosian to Represent Derrick Adams, Artist Known for Vibrant Depictions of Black Joy - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gagosian\u00a0has taken on the global representation of\u00a0Derrick Adams, one of today\u2019s most beloved artists. 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