Adam Pendleton

In a conceptual, multi-disciplinary practice, New York-based artist Adam Pendleton shifts language, forms and images into an arena of artistic inquiry where cultural-political meanings - what is heritage, what is history, what is self-fashioned - are isolated and drawn into conversation. Pendleton works to create a re-historicized present, one that upsets and unbalances comfortably subjective interpretations of history and culture.

Pendleton's most recent body of work, Black Dada, includes ongoing manifestos and paintings. The large-scale, often black-on-black silk-screened paintings combine cropped images of Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Cubes with letters from the title phrase transforming the lines of the cubes into abstract broad bands and the letters from Black Dada into procedurally placed symbols.