Adam Pendleton
Bio
Pendleton’s work has been widely exhibited internationally in venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, The Kitchen (all New York), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others. His work is represented in numerous museum and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; as well as Tate Modern, London.
Statement
In his paintings, drawings, and other works, Pendleton uses letters, words, drips, splatters, sprays, and collected images as primary materials. His work is a kind of continuous writing, in which language and gestural marks are incessantly recorded, transposed, and overwritten. Blurring the edges between modes of viewing and reading, between representation and abstraction, and between painting, drawing, and photography, Pendleton’s work is a visual philosophy of incomplete postulates. In 2008, he began to articulate his work through the idea of Black Dada, a visual project and ever-evolving inquiry into the relationships between blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
