Object Details
- Artist
- BK Adams
- Date
- 2010
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (46 × 61.3 cm)
- Caption
- Compare the depiction of collaborators artist BK “Art Man” Adams and photographer Steven Cummings in this portrait. Cummings wears a dark maroon blazer and a button-down shirt with dark wash jeans. He sits on an upholstered, high-back chair, one leg crossed casually over the other. Adams’s white, paint covered shirt is camouflaged against the abstract canvas he appears to run across. His dramatic pose—one foot on the ground while the other is kicked back behind him, his fingers spread apart like a sprinter—fuses the artist and his work. The paint-covered studio further blurs the distinction between art and reality, with everything from paint cans to coffee cups covered in paint and bearing a stencil of Adam’s goggled and bearded face. While Cummings’s photographs archive Black life in the district, Adams’s work argues that art and life are inextricable.
- Accession Number
- 2011.0005.0006
- Type
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2011.0005.0006
