Luxembourg & Dayan and Salon 94 Have Joined Forces to Represent Fast-Rising Star Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams, a pathfinding artist who works in video,
sound, performance, and painting, is now represented jointly
by Luxembourg & Dayan and Salon 94, the galleries announced
today.

The artist, who has quickly found the attention of numerous New
York galleries, is best known for his striking polychromatic
depictions of African American men and women that explore the
legacies of race in American history.

Earlier this year, Luxembourg & Dayan held a solo show of works
in this style (“Interior Life,” February 26–April 20) curated by
Francesco Bonami, who introduced Adams to the gallery’s
partners.

“[Daniella Luxembourg an I] both feel that he’s a wonderful
artist doing such interesting work,” Amalia Dayan told artnet News.
The gallery will aim to contextualize his work within their
wide-ranging program while broadening his international appeal
through their London gallery. “There is something very
positive and fresh about [Adams’s] point of view,” she added.

The two galleries will inaugurate their collaboration with Adams
via two projects in the coming year. Luxembourg & Dayan will
present a solo exhibition in winter 2020 at its Savile Row space in
London. At the same time, Salon 94 will debut selections from
a new body of work in its stand at the next Frieze Los Angeles art
fair in February.

Salon 94 founder Jeanne Greenberg, who hosted a performance of
Adams’s at her gallery in 2013 for Performa 13, says the dialogue
between herself and Adams has been ongoing.

“Derrick has developed a unique portrait practice from years of
looking closely at friends, passersby, and miles of
painting,” Greenberg told artnet News. “He fills in visual
voids in art history. A bikini-clad African American floating
effortlessly in an inflatable swan with the blue summer sky
reflected in her face is new Zeitgeist imagery. Seems so obvious,
so easy—yet it’s not!”

The artist, who is also represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in
Chicago, had a show this past spring with Mary Boone titled
“New Icons” shortly before she closed her gallery.

Adams, who lives and works in Brooklyn, was born in Baltimore in
1970. He earned a BFA at the Pratt Institute and an MFA at Columbia
University.

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