Adam Pendleton (b. 1984, Richmond, VA, based in New York, NY)

In Adam Pendleton's paintings, drawings, and other works, a visual philosophy of incomplete postulates emerges, flattening the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the idea of Black Dada, an ever-evolving inquiry into the relationship between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. This exhibition features two of Pendleton’s book works. The large-format Anthology (2018) is a limited-edition hand-sewn book of 200 drawings silkscreened on Japanese Shoji paper. The smaller-format As Heavy as Sculpture (2021), based on his installation of the same name at the New Museum in New York, includes language drawn from the protests against police brutality that swept the United States in 2020.

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