Artist Derrick Adams Will Have a Live Talk at the Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery

On Saturday, April 6, 2019 Brooklyn based artist Derrick Adams will talk in a live recording with curator & podcast host Savona Bailey-McClain and audience at the Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.

This event will begin at 3 p.m. Audience members can view Adams exhibition, Interior Life before the talk. The exhibition curated by Francesco Bonami. Inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes "a life which seeks God in everything," Interior Life is an intervention on the intimate spaces of one's mind and home, each an analog for the other.

The exhibition includes new portraits on paper from the artist's ongoing Deconstruction Worker series, installed on custom wallpaper depicting imaginary domestic environments. Adams' spatial exploration of the relationship between the intimate and the infinite finds an ideal setting at Luxembourg & Dayan's New York gallery, which resides in the second smallest townhouse in Manhattan.

Interior Life will remain on view through April 20, 2019. The exhibition is the latest in an intermittent series of Luxembourg & Dayan spotlights on leading contemporary artists whose work inspires fresh thinking about connections between current and historical tendencies in art.

Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, and sound, as well as painting and sculpture. Adams' work focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring the shape-shifting force of popular culture on self-image and forward projection.

Savona Bailey-McClain is an independent curator and producer. The range of McClain's practice has included sculpture, drawings, performance, sound, and mixed media. McClain is the Executive Director & Chief Curator for The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc., a twenty-one-year-old public art organization and curatorial collective serving neighborhoods around the City.

Founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan and joined by Alma Luxembourg in 2011, Luxembourg & Dayan maintains an international presence with spaces in New York and London, as well as presentations at major art fairs. Its unique program focuses on historical exhibitions of significant postwar European artists. In revisiting some artists' careers, the gallery introduces a new audience to their oeuvres while simultaneously generating renewed critical interest.