Derrick Adams’ How I Spent My Summer is a radiant meditation on leisure, identity, and self-affirmation, seen through the prism of summertime joy. Each of the nine panels forms part of a collective portrait—one that celebrates rest, representation, and the quiet radicalism of pleasure in Black life. Adams, whose practice bridges collage, painting, and performance, uses Pop-inflected color and geometric clarity to transform simple moments into profound cultural statements. The series echoes his ongoing commitment to depicting Black joy as a form of resistance, rewriting the visual history of how Black bodies are seen and where they belong.The final panel closes the cycle with a swimmer beaming at the viewer, goggles resting on a polka-dot cap. The joy is unguarded, real. Together, the nine images form a visual hymn to leisure as liberation—simple, bright, and unapologetically human.For more information on Derrick Adam's How I spent my Summer, contact our galleries using the enquiry form below.