# @derrickadamsny on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVWYqRsAz1N
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33136832-derrickadamsny-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-10-22T23:43:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Derrick Adams (@derrickadamsny) — https://gondola.cc/derrickadamsny

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The Modern Window: Derrick Adams
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 “What can I reveal that has not been shown? It always goes back to the simplest of things, like normalcy,” the artist Derrick Adams has explained. “Black people—not entertaining, just being, living. Letting people deal with that as reality.” In his paintings and installations, Adams celebrates moments of everyday Black life and explores how popular culture pervades contemporary reality. The starting points for these particular paintings are two popular classics of 1990s Black cinema, Juice and Set It Off.
 
These works imagine a moment in the ’90s in which drivers pass by billboards for the films in distinctly late-twentieth-century models of then-futuristic cars (a DeLorean and a Nissan 300ZX). Gazes ricochet across the paintings: one passenger seems to peer out, engaging us passersby on the street, while another seems to look into the eyes of the towering face pictured on the billboard before him. The joys of cruising in a car, of seeing and being seen, and of being in a world of one’s own making, however momentary, pulse through the works.
 
Established in 2008, The Modern Window is a series of site-specific installations by contemporary artists commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art to engage with the architecture of the window of The Modern restaurant on West 53rd Street.
 
Organized by Lanka Tattersall, lankatatters Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints.

“Joyride I” and “Joyride II” 2021, acrylic on wood panel each 120x60in 

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