“Penn Station has a bleakness to it – it’s a commuter space that’s not designed to be comfortable.'
gallery in Chelsea. The works there showcase his documentation of day-to-day normalcy and beauty in Black lives, using images from TV, films and advertisements as starting points.
For his 2019 MTA-commissioned "Around the Way" at the Nostrand Ave. LIRR stop, Adams created stained-glass images inspired by his neighbors.Adams grew up in a middle-class Black neighborhood in Baltimore, a close-knit community where “everyone knew everyone’s first and last names,” he said. Becoming a youthful art star who would do signs and murals for his school, and enlisting friends to help him, provided another valuable lesson.
“I went back and forth through all these different worlds, to understand not only what I'm making and how what I'm making affects the viewer, but also what types of viewers are in certain places and how they respond to things based on their exposure to art,” he said. “It all has to do with your understanding of what your role is in each space. And as an artist, you have to understand that your role is not always the same.
Adams calls the acrylic paintings he’s showing at FLAG Art Foundation “the best representation of my work thus far.” As someone whose very first successful artwork featured a television, he freely admits the importance of media in his practice. “I use it constantly,” he said. “I don’t really know a world without TV or media.”
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