We Make The City's Grid, Derrick Adams Edition Print for HELP USA, 2024
Ed. of 20 + 4AP
Dims: Image ~ 29 x 11 in,
Paper 31.5x 13.5 in.
Limited Purchase Two Per Person
Made exclusively for HELP USA to benefit therapeutic services designed to address traumas experienced by homelessness and formerly homeless people in New York City. We Make This City's Grid edition print was inspired by Adams' 25' x 9' ceramic mural permanently installed in the lobby of HELP ONE, a brand new affordable and supportive housing complex which opened in Brooklyn, NY in 2023.
Derrick Adams was born in Baltimore in 1970 and lives and works in New York. Adams works with HELP USA to address traumas experienced by homeless and formerly homeless people in New York City.
Adam's large-scale mural, We Make the City's Grid, 2023, a 25' x 9' ceramic tile mosaic is the artist's first time working in this medium and was commissioned by HELP USA and permanently installed at HELP One, a brand new affordable, and supportive housing complex which opened in 2023 in Brooklyn.
In 2022, Adams established two initiatives to nurture the arts and culture in his native Baltimore. The Last Resort Artist Retreat is a residency program committed to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative. The Black Baltimore Digital Database is a multipurpose physically and digitally accessible space dedicated to cataloging and archiving cultural contributions by Black Baltimoreans, both historical and ongoing.
Permanent collections include the Baltimore Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
Exhibitions include ON, Pioneer Works, NY (2016); Network, California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Patrick Kelly, The Journey, Studio Museum in Harlem/Countee Cullen Library, NY (2017); Sanctuary, Museum of Arts and Design, NY (2018); Transmission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2018); Where I'm From, Baltimore City Hall (2019); Buoyant, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (2020); Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas: Packaged Black, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021); LOOKS, Cleveland Museum of Art (2021-22); and I Can Show You Better Than I Can TellYou, FLAG Foundation, NY (2023). Adams has received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2009), Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem (2016), Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2018), and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2019).
