Fixing My Face, 2025

Artspace and Monacelli are proud to present Fixing My Face, 2025, a new limited-edition print by acclaimed contemporary artist Derrick Adams.

Fixing My Face is a 21-color silkscreen with aluminum leaf and metallic ink, limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered prints. The edition reimagines an original painting from 2021, showcasing Adams’ signature approach to figuration with Cubist-inspired angular planes, perspective play, and distinctive colorwork.

'One thing I really loved about this work, that I was really excited about, is the way the subject was both the environment as well as the subject. So, the figure and the environment on this piece is together, the same. She takes up the whole of the picture plane and she creates a thing where she’s also a portrait and a landscape.' —Derrick Adams

The limited edition of Fixing My Face comes with a signed copy of Adams’ first-ever monograph published by Monacelli, which includes 150 of the most significant works from the artist’s career, along with four newly commissioned texts from cultural luminaries.

Over the past twenty-five years, Adams has demonstrated a unique ability to both synthesize and celebrate Black American life and culture in a formally rigorous body of work. Referencing, reviving, and amplifying Black American culture, Adams is an avid spectator; he stockpiles his observations from pop culture, art history, everyday encounters, and personal history to deploy in his art. Opening in April 2026, Derrick Adams: View Master at the ICA Boston will present the artist’s first mid-career survey, offering a sweeping view of his multidisciplinary practice.

Derrick Adams (Baltimore, MD, 1970) has developed an artistic practice that jocundly visualizes modern Black American life. Equally informed by popular culture as he is by the history of modern art, Adams’s work brings the everyday experiences of Black Americans to the forefront, capturing fashionable moments of joy, resilience, and celebration.

Adams has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (2022); The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018), among others. The artist has mounted public installations commissioned through Monument Lab on the National Mall, Washington D.C. (2023), Art on the Mart at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago (2023), Art at Amtrak at NYC Penn Station, New York (2023); MTA Arts & Design at the Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, Brooklyn (2020–ongoing); and RxART at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2019–ongoing). The artist lives and works in Brooklyn.

All our frames are manufactured in the USA, using eco-friendly and sustainably sourced engineered hardwood for durability and a uniform finish that is free of defects. Frames are available in Black or White Satin and Honey Pecan.

All prints are hinged to a conservation quality, acid-free and lignin-free Alpha Cellulose matboard, using an acid-free linen tape. The mat's surface paper is fade and bleed resistant and is attached to a conservation quality foam-core mounting board that will keep the work safe from deterioration over time. Artworks with a deckled or decorative edges will be floated on the matboard, with acrylic spacers to separate the art from the glazing. All mounting is fully reversible, without any potential damage to the art.

All of our frames come with picture quality .090 mm plexiglass, which blocks 66% of UV to prevent color fading from exposure to light, keeping your art protected for years to come. It is now considered the industry standard for artists, museums and galleries throughout the world.

For images up to 30" x 40"

• 1 1/4” wide, 3/4” deep, with a 2 1/2” wide mat.
• We generally leave 1/4” - 1/2” of paper showing around the image, to accommodate signatures and for visual appeal.

For sheet sizes larger than 30” x 40" please contact an Artspace advisor for a custom quote.

Our art editions ship in 7 to 10 business days from New York.

Our framed art editions ship in 11 to 14 business days from New York.

This work is eligible for return within 30 days of receipt of delivery.

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