Derrick Adams 'Fixing My Face' Print Release Details

Artist: Derrick Adams
Title: Fixing My Face
Medium: 21 Color Screen Print
Size: 20 x 20 Inches
Edition: 40
Prices: $4,000

*available Tuesday October 21st, 2025

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Derrick Adams is an American artist born in Baltimore in 1970 who works across painting, collage, sculpture, performance and digital media. He studied at Pratt Institute and earned an MFA from Columbia University, grounding his practice in both fine art and critical theory. His vibrant mixed media pieces celebrate Black joy, leisure and self fashioning, presenting everyday life as a site of cultural richness and resistance.

Adams layers acrylic, fabric, paper and found objects to build portraits and domestic scenes that pulse with pattern and colour. Flat planes of emerald, fuchsia and gold echo African textiles while recalling the geometric language of early modern abstraction. The work often incorporates hair weaves, clothing labels and magazine cutouts, turning consumer debris into signifiers of identity and aspiration. Recurring motifs include crowns, luxury bags and television static, suggesting that visibility and representation are constant negotiations.

Performance remains central to his output.

In 2018 he staged “We Came to Party and Plan” at the Brooklyn Museum, transforming the space into a disco where archival footage of 1970s Black dance shows played alongside live DJs, linking celebration to community organising. Recent exhibitions include “Where I’m From” at the Hudson River Museum and “Motion” at Luxembourg and Dayan, New York, while his collage “Style Variation #25” entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

When he is not in the studio, Adams mentors young artists and curates pop culture archives, believing that creativity is a collective resource. By merging celebration with critique, he invites viewers to recognise that joy itself is a radical act.