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Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams is a deconstructivist with a thing for pop culture. In a recent body of work, the New York City artist covered an image of Mike Tyson’s massive trunk with a translucent wall of bricks. In the same series, he dressed up stacks of real bricks with hoodies, leather jackets and academic robes. These days, Adams uses clothing patterns, printed shelf liner, pencil, paint and crayon to create landscapes and angular human forms. “The work investigates the relationship between man and monument as they coexist in the landscape as representations of one another,” he writes in a statement. “Man as His Element” at Colburn Gallery, UVM, in Burlington through March 30. Pictured: “Pattern Structure 1.”