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Born 1974 Memphis, Tennessee. Known for: Black racial themed art with puppets, layered texture paintings, installations, mosaics.
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition. Mr. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers — dancers, riders, rowers,... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition. Mr. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers — dancers, riders, rowers, drum-majors — as strivers who navigate the ambiguities that come with their achievement, and the racial scrutiny that accompanies... Read full biography
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