Vinnie Hager 'Impromptu' Prints Available

Artist: Vinnie Hager
Title: Impromptu
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 30 (UNIQUE)
Price: $75

 

Vinnie Hager is a Baltimore-born multidisciplinary artist who has turned compulsive doodling into a market-moving visual language. Raised in Millersville, Maryland, he spent solitary childhood afternoons filling notebooks with symbols eyes, envelopes, stars, question marks that still populate his work today. Encouraged by early $25 sales at school, he refined the alphabet while studying at Anne Arundel Community College and later at MICA, where animation and illustration courses fed his fascination with pattern.

Working without preliminary sketches, Hager lays down looping chains of glyphs in Posca pens, Procreate or paint pens, letting each shape dictate the next until dense mandala-like fields emerge. The method is meditative yet urgent; a single canvas or vintage Champion hoodie can be completed in one hypnotic four-hour session. Colour palettes shift between soft pastels and high-visibility neons, but the line remains consistently clean, recalling both hieroglyphics and circuit boards.

During the pandemic he pioneered Instagram “scavenger drops,” leaving free art around Baltimore, then watching followers sprint to claim them an act that converted online buzz into real-world community. The same energy fuels limited capsule releases: thrifted furniture, cut-and-sewn blankets, ski masks and Nike AF1s slathered with his code sell out in minutes, echoing early Supreme hype without the corporate machine.

Hager’s recent Diary NFT project translates seven years of grief into 1,000 unique digital squares, each paired with a physical print, merging Web3 innovation with tangible craft. Whether painting a six-storey Harbour East mural or grip-tape for local skaters, he treats every surface as a page in an ever-expanding sketchbook, proving that sincerity, speed and a sharp eye can transform simple marks into cultural currency.

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.