To Live is to Leave Traces takes place in a storefront art studio, open to the public, in the heart of Jackson Heights.
The Making of “A Cloud Reveals the Moon”, 2018
Derick’s most recent works are made from second-hand clothing, sourced from specific locations and populations. He brings these populations together first as collaborators and then again in the clothing used to create the work. In a sense, these works are collective portraits. Derick celebrates and honors both the individual and the community in each work he creates.
So happy to create a giant photographic print of NIght Sky for the Italian collector Giorgia Lera.
Clothing assemblages wrapped on panels (OK, maybe there is a wig in the first one!). Also, ideas for outdoor sculptures that explore the idea of marking, directing, instructing... but lacking meaning.
Study for a quilt of sorts where the arms project upward.. plus two other drawings from the archive.
I just finished installing the last of 3 sculptures created for Eileen Fisher this summer. Over the course of 6 weeks, I used approximately 3,600 pounds of clothing.
I'm in Seattle today, getting ready to install one of the 3 clothing sculptures I created for Eileen Fisher.
So excited to exhibit the results of this new commission from Diesel. Getting on a plane soon which will get me to the exhibition space just in time for the opening at the YIA art fair.
Studio time in the Paris suburbs for a clothing sculpture commission for Diesel.
The overall shape is that of a thick, free-standing, corner partition. The color vertically transitions from dark to light and the back again. Inside the corner of the structure, shirt sleeves, pant legs, ties etc.. emerge to form bridge-like appendages. These elements express the human need to make connections, and symbolize the idea that we are all one people.