Derrick Adams: Where My Girls At?

Where My Girls At? is a sixty-two-color screen print by Derrick Adams created on the occasion of The Strip, the artist’s debut exhibition in South Korea, presented by Gagosian at APMA Cabinet, Seoul. It pictures a display window containing four mannequin heads wearing colorful wigs, abstracted in Adams’s signature vivid colors and flat, interlocked forms. Exploring themes of representation, style, and beauty, the body of work from which it is drawn is based on photographs of beauty shops both near Adams’s studio in Brooklyn and throughout the world, and titled after classic ’90s tracks by women-fronted R&B groups—702, in this case. Engaging with portraiture, costuming, and pop culture, the image pays tribute to Black women as both consumer and muse.