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I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You, a solo exhibition by Derrick Adams, comprises a cycle of sixteen large-scale works from Adams’s new series, Motion Picture Paintings (2020-22). These images extend the artist’s signature deconstructed, cubist-style portraits in a new cinematic direction through freeze framed moments—drawn from movies, media, and the artist’s imagination—and are inscribed with graphic texts reminiscent of film titles.

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Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Adams earned a BFA from Pratt …