Derick Alexander

Derick Alexander is a self-taught photographer and videographer who has worked with many of Tulsa’s music and dance artists to produce their videos. He started out putting his visions on canvas, but was drawn more by the movement he could add to his visual ideas and the way different lighting altered the statements that photographs and videos make. He began creating art as a high school sophomore in 2009 and describes his style as seeking to merge different art forms onto a video platform. Derick says his greatest inspiration comes from music; it paints a picture into his head and he tries to recreate in  video form.

Mr. Alexander works with the state of Oklahoma to assist residents in need of employment. He is also in the planning stages and will soon launch his own moving and cleaning service. Derick is a youth  basketball couch in a competitive league and stresses positive ideals to the kids letting them know that just as they work hard and discipline themselves for the game, they must also prepare themselves and work hard off the court. Derick loves working with and guiding young boys but says, "The greatest gift to me is this opportunity I have to nurture and enjoy my daughter Raelyn."

Greenwood Imagine

The creators of Greenwood Imagine combine live performance, poetry, video, and visual art in an effort to immerse visitors in an experience that dissolves the line between past and present. The artists want visitors to contemplate a world that might have existed if the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre had not occurred. Bringing generational trauma to the surface, Greenwood Imagine envelops viewers in the terror Greenwood citizens felt and asks them to link it to their current moment. Poet Anthony Curtis Brinkley works with artists Ebony Iman Dallas and Derick Alexander in moving viewers to acknowledge the trauma, respect it, and subsequently whisk it away to make room for future ideas and identities. Moving through an entangled temporal landscape, between past and future and in alternate universes, Greenwood Imagine cultivates a space to contemplate the future in a world where the Massacre never happened. The work is inspired by Brinkley’s poem, “When Dreams Lose Wing''.

Greenwood Imagine will be exhibited twice. First, it will show at Living Arts of Tulsa, 307 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK, from May 17 to June 14 with a full presentation on May 29. It will then will show at Rudisill Regional Library, 1520 N Hartford Ave, Tulsa, OK June 15 to June 28 with a full presentation on June 19.