Studio Visit with Artist Derrick Adams

Wed, May 17 / 6 pm

Derrick Adams

Please join MAD’s William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator Shannon R. Stratton in exploring the studio of artist Derrick Adams. Adams is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self-image and forward projection. Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from Pratt Institute, and is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, as well as the recipient of the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, S.J. Weiler Award, and Agnes Martin Fellowship.  He’s exhibited and performed at MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum of Art, PERFORMA, Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and California African American Museum, among many other notable galleries and institutions. Adams’ work is in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Birmingham Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and is available at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Tilton Gallery, New York; Vigo Gallery, London; and Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris.

Please note that transportation will be provided via private motor coach leaving from the Museum at 5:15 pm; please arrive at MAD promptly by 5 pm if you wish to travel with the group to the artist’s studio in Brooklyn. If you prefer to travel on your own, the studio address is 3 MacDonough Street, Brooklyn NY 11216 (ground floor). Please arrive promptly by 6 pm.

Space is limited, and open to two individuals per invitation. To RSVP, email Lucig.Kebranian@madmuseum.org by Friday, May 12.

Please review our health and safety protocols before you arrive. MAD strongly recommends all visitors six months and older are vaccinated against Covid-19 and visitors ages two and up wear face coverings, even if vaccinated. Thank you for your cooperation.

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