Adam Pendleton, Untitled (Days for Drawing), 2022
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Description
Who is Adam Pendleton?
Pendleton was born in 1984, Richmond, Virginia. He studied art in Northern Italy. After art studies, he went to New York in 2002, at the age of 18, with the intention of becoming an artist.
Adam Pendleton’s multidisciplinary practice uses text, gesture, and appropriated imagery to reconsider social resistance, avant-garde art, and underrepresented historical movements. Across silkscreen paintings, photographic collage, video, performance, and publishing, Pendleton filters ideas and aesthetics from the Black Arts Movement, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Dada through a graphic, monochromatic palette. The resulting pieces explore Blackness and race from myriad perspectives. Pendleton describes his work as “Black Dada,” a phrase originally coined by the poet Amiri Baraka. He has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, and Johannesburg. His work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Long Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate.
About Untitled (Days for Drawing)
Adam Pendleton’s work is a reflection of how we increasingly move through and experience the world on a sensorial level—a form of abstraction that, in its painterly, psychic, and verbal expression, announces a new mode of visual composition for the twenty-first century. It investigates Blackness as a colour, an identity, a method, and a political subject—in short, as a multitude. His work also poses questions about the legacy of modernism in the present day, reactivating ideas from historic avant-gardes across mediums and moments in time. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the frame of Black Dada, an evolving inquiry into the relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. It’s a visual philosophy that confounds the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange, reminding us that meaning always develops through difference. In the scope of Adam's larger oeuvre as they signal a return to subtle traces of colour. His practice has otherwise been explicitly focused on shades and variations of black and white as of late. Also, as the title indicates, these drawings are a counterpoint to the Untitled (Days) paintings. With an analogous spirit of exploration, they use familiar forms (circles, semicircles, ovals) to build a geometry of attention that is repeatedly interrupted by painterly incident: brushstrokes, drips, splatters, sprays. Where these drawings diverge from paintings, however, is in their pictorial and temporal space. Their visual rhythm has the unmistakable quickness of drawing, driven by spontaneity and happenstance, while the method of their making produces a visual tension between foreground and background, with translucent marks laid down in a sequence that is often impossible to discern.
Auction record
His auction records is $604,800 achieved at Christie’s in 2022. Works by Adam Pendleton are highly sought after with a growing waiting list for his works with global interest from collectors to museums and institutions.
Selected Public Collections:
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Baltimore Museum of Art
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Centro de Art Mayo CA2M, Madrid
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Dallas Museum of Art
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing
Fundación Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura, Gran Canaria
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
Lambert, Avignon
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Paris
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Spinoza Foundation, Paris
Start Museum, Shanghai
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Tate, London
University of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Yuz Museum, Shanghai
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