Derrick Adams, "Sing It Like You Mean It"

Derrick Adams

Sing It Like You Mean It

Archival pigment print

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This limited edition by Derrick Adams features a digitally collaged composition, printed on smooth printmaking paper and featuring his trademark illustrative, vibrant portraiture.

Year: 2016
Edition of: 20
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 36 inches
Authentication: Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

About the Artwork

This limited edition by Derrick Adams features a digitally collaged composition, printed on smooth printmaking paper and featuring his trademark illustrative, vibrant portraiture.

Sing It Like You Mean It was printed in collaboration with the artist and Lower East Side Printshop. Each print was digitally printed with a lab-calibrated inkjet printer using archival pigment-based inks (this process is also known as Giclée printing).

Curator's Note

In Sing It Like You Mean It, a vintage wood paneled television features a long-haired woman mid-song on a stage reminiscent of a variety show from the sixties. The television test pattern known as EG 1:1990, or Engineering Guideline Alignment Color Bar, staggers to create depth of field for the songstress.

These colors are used for setting a television monitor to reproduce colors and light levels accurately. This interplay between a historical conception of chromatic rendering with a Black singer commanding the stage (we are the viewers) speaks to the heart of Adams’ work.

About the Artist

Derrick Adams (b.1970, Baltimore, MD) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist whose critically admired work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound installations. His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies.

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