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Images (Left, Top, Bottom): Installation view of FRESH PAINT: Derrick Adams at the Parrish Art Museum (October 14, 2024–January 5, 2025). Photo: © Gary Mamay. Derrick Adams. Photo: Schaun Champion. Folasade Ologundudu. Courtesy of the Artist.
Talk | FRESH PAINT: Derrick Adams
In conversation with Folasade Ologundudu and Parrish Executive Director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut
November 15, 6 pm - 7:30 pm
$20 Adults & Resident Benefits PassHolder | $10 Members | $18 Seniors | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate the installment of FRESH PAINT featuring Derrick Adams’ work on view in the Creativity Lounge, join us for a conversation in the Lichtenstein Theater with artist Derrick Adams, Folasade Ologundudu, who was commissioned to write the text that accompanies Adams’ work, and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Parrish.
FRESH PAINT spotlights the latest works by both emerging and established artists, fostering a direct response to contemporary issues and cultural movements, on a rotating basis. FRESH PAINT is a collaboration with the FLAG Art Foundation and is accompanied by educational initiatives, including ARTscope, a teen council program offering participants a comprehensive exploration of the visual arts, career pathways, and practical experience in museum operations.
About Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams’ work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance.
Derrick Adams received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. In addition to his critically acclaimed art practice, Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded to in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
About Folasade Ologundudu
Folasade Ologundudu is an independent producer, writer, curator, and multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice seeks to uncover ideas related to the universal human condition through text-based work, photography, and film. She has written art criticism, profiles, interviews, and essays for ArtForum, ARTnews, Cultured Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and Frieze, among other publications. Ologundudu is also the founder of Light Work, a creative media platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture. Through her podcast, Everything Is Connected, she holds conversations with artists, curators, and entrepreneurs deeply rooted in visual arts and community building.
Friday Nights are made possible by The Corcoran Group.
Talk | FRESH PAINT: Derrick Adams
In conversation with Folasade Ologundudu and Parrish Executive Director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut
November 15, 6 pm - 7:30 pm
$20 Adults & Resident Benefits PassHolder | $10 Members | $18 Seniors | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate the installment of FRESH PAINT featuring Derrick Adams’ work on view in the Creativity Lounge, join us for a conversation in the Lichtenstein Theater with artist Derrick Adams, Folasade Ologundudu, who was commissioned to write the text that accompanies Adams’ work, and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Parrish.
FRESH PAINT spotlights the latest works by both emerging and established artists, fostering a direct response to contemporary issues and cultural movements, on a rotating basis. FRESH PAINT is a collaboration with the FLAG Art Foundation and is accompanied by educational initiatives, including ARTscope, a teen council program offering participants a comprehensive exploration of the visual arts, career pathways, and practical experience in museum operations.
About Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams’ work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance.
Derrick Adams received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. In addition to his critically acclaimed art practice, Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded to in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
About Folasade Ologundudu
Folasade Ologundudu is an independent producer, writer, curator, and multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice seeks to uncover ideas related to the universal human condition through text-based work, photography, and film. She has written art criticism, profiles, interviews, and essays for ArtForum, ARTnews, Cultured Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and Frieze, among other publications. Ologundudu is also the founder of Light Work, a creative media platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture. Through her podcast, Everything Is Connected, she holds conversations with artists, curators, and entrepreneurs deeply rooted in visual arts and community building.
Friday Nights are made possible by The Corcoran Group.
