Continuing it’s commitment to exhibiting work by leading contemporary artists outside the traditional museum setting, The Studio Museum in Harlem, announced a new slate of inHarlem initiatives led by the exhibition Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library’s Countee Cullen Library branch.

At the center of Patrick Kelly, The Journey is Adams’s “Mood Board” series, a new body of work responding to Kelly’s legacy as a formalist who imbued social context and humor into his creations. These abstract collages incorporate Kelly’s vintage clothing patterns, as well as his iconic fabrics, colors and shapes: bold and colorful geometric forms, contours of the female body, and buttons and other embellishments. The works exalt Kelly’s formal excellence while demonstrating Adams’s ongoing interest in deconstructing, fragmenting and manipulating structure and surface.

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The exhibition Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey, is organized by Hallie Ringle, Assistant Curator and is presented at the Countee Cullen Library branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at 104 West 136th Street.

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In conjunction with the exhibition, Adams will present a special public program on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at 6:30 pm at the Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at 135th Street). The event is free and open to the public. Ticket reservations can be made at nypl.org/events.

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Now its second year, inHarlem is designed to explore innovative ways to engage the community while taking the Museum beyond its own walls, and encompasses a growing range of dynamic exhibitions and programs.

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