Episode No. 768 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Derrick Adams.
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is presenting “Derrick Adams: View Master” through September 7. It is the first mid-career survey of Adams’ twenty-year career. The exhibition was curated by Dexter Wimberly and Tessa Bachi Haas. An Adams monograph was published by Monacelli in association with Gagosian, an art dealership chain, last year in anticipation of the exhibition.
Adams’ work celebrates contemporary Black Life in works that emphasize joy and leisure. Among the institutions presenting solo exhibitions of his work are the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. His work is in collection of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Adams’ hometown Baltimore Museum of Art.
Series of Adams’ work discussed on the program:
Instagram: Derrick Adams, Tyler Green.
Air date: July 23, 2026.
Derrick Adams, Braving the Path, 2023.
Derrick Adams, America’s Playground, 2023.
Derrick Adams, Upscale and or Lowbrow (from the Sanctuary series), 2018.
Derrick Adams, Human Structure Casting Shadows pair, 2012.
Derrick Adams, The Same League, 2008.
Derrick Adams, Figure in the Urban Landscape 34, 2019.
Derrick Adams Self Portrait on Float, 2019.
Derrick Adams, Michael Sam, 2018.
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