Derrick Adams

Party Guest 1 (We Came to Party and Plan Series), 2020 [Artist Proof]

Edition of 50

Screen print, relief, fabric, collage

24h x 18w inches

Party Guest 1 (We Came to Party and Plan Series) was created with screen print and relief printmaking methods. The background and the figure are screen printed on paper. The figure's shirt is book cloth that has been screen printed to create the dot pattern, cut out, and collaged to the background. The party hat is relief printed on thick paper, cut out, and collaged to the background. Signed by the artist.

Please refer to a diagram that points out the different processes: https://uwmadison.box.com/v/Adams-Party-Guest-1-diagram 

Featured in Forbes on August 14, 2020

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Artist bio

Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist working for more than twenty years in painting, collage, prints, sculpture, installation art, performance, video, and sound. Recently hailed as “trailblazing” by Departures Magazine, his practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self image and forward projection. In 2019, Derrick Adams unveiled a permanent public art installation at the Nostrand LIRR station of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, featuring over thirty colorful glass panels depicting Adams’ rendition of the Crown Heights, Brooklyn, community, where he lives and works. In 2018, Adams collaborated with Pyer Moss to challenge social narratives and evoke dialogue through fashion.

A recipient of the 2018 American Family Fellowship from the Gordon Parks Foundation, a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and 2014 S.J. Weiler Award, Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Marie Walsh Sharpe alumnus. His art is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Hudson River Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art.

Instagram: @derrickadamsny