Derrick Adams, Where My Girls At?, 2024 ©Derrick Adams Studio
In its first exhibition in Korea, the Gagosian
Gallery will present Derrick Adams' solo exhibition “The Strip” from September
3 to October 12 at the APMA Cabinet, a ground-level project space in the
headquarters of Amorepacific, to coincide with the opening of Frieze Seoul.
For his first solo exhibition in Korea,
Adams has created a new series of paintings inspired by the window displays of
beauty stores near her Brooklyn studio and around the world. Mannequin heads with colorful wigs make a striking appearance on the
canvas, surrounded by relief-like bricks engraved with layers of paint and
graffiti, forming a frame around the work.
Paintings
that include reflections of signs, sidewalks, vehicles, and roads on glass
evoke a sense of interior and exterior spaces being intertwined. Alongside the
paintings, two sculptures made from actual mannequin heads and wigs are
installed, offering a rich and sensory visual experience. The exhibition's
opening reception is scheduled for Tuesday, September 3, from 5 pm to 7 pm.
Derrick Adams (b. 1970) was born in
Baltimore, USA, and is currently based in New York. His works are part of the
collections of major art institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the
Birmingham Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn
Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the
Whitney Museum of American Art. Adams has held exhibitions at prominent venues
including Pioneer Works (2016), the California African American Museum (2017),
the Studio Museum in Harlem (2018), Baltimore City Hall (2019), the Hudson
River Museum (2020), the Henry Art Gallery (2021), the Cleveland Museum of Art
(2021–22), and the FLAG Art Foundation (2023).
His notable awards include the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2009), the Studio Museum in Harlem Award
(2016), the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2018), and the Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2019).
