🫶🏾 #Repost brooklynrail ・・・ Derrick Adams celebrates contemporary Black life and culture through a distinct representational language, often combining planar shapes and patterns to create multifaceted figures that center leisure, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. View Master, the first mid-career survey of his work, offers a sweeping view of his multidisciplinary practice over twenty years. “The show’s namesake, View Master (2025) [serves] as the manifestation of the boundless possibilities the artist seeks to propose,” Lee Ann Norman (lee_ann3) writes in our ArtSeen section. “Charles Harrison, the Black industrial designer who revamped the beloved, classic toy in lightweight red plastic in 1958, is rendered on the lenses of the object in Adams’s vibrant painting. Beneath the logo the sentence, ‘Double consciousness is the dual self-perception,’ is a subtle reminder that our existence can consist of ‘both-and.’ View Master becomes an invitation for Black people to see each ot...