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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Derek Fordjour

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Derek Fordjour’s LA MOCA Mural Is an “Invitation” to the Museum

by Matt Stromberg May 3, 2022May 4, 2022

“Sonic Boom,” named after a Historically Black College’s famous marching band, “will have particular resonance in communities of color,” the artist said.

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Derek Fordjour Conjures a Heavenly World

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney December 16, 2020December 17, 2020

In “Self Must Die,” Fordjour’s penchant for lush colors and surfaces dovetails with the theme of churchified rituals of remembrance.

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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections

by Stephen Maine October 24, 2020November 20, 2020

“Looking at the imagery is like reviewing a memory bank.”

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Derek Fordjour Considers the Precariousness of Shelter

Avatar photo by Jack Radley April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

As many grapple with the tension between confinement and the privilege of security, Fordjour’s artworks offer opportunities for relief from, and for contemplation of the uncertainty that lies beyond.

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Wandering the Artist Studios of Dumbo

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 5, 2018May 9, 2018

Open studios events allow a type of intimacy with an artist’s work that is rare.

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A Dreamy Carnival at the Children’s Museum in Harlem

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney November 22, 2017November 24, 2017

Derek Fordjour’s impish and touching installation is so chock-a-block with the minute details of Fordjour’s making that I feel I’m inhabiting his dreamscape

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