![Black Dada (A/A) by Adam Pendleton](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/24-057-AP-JPG-2_web.width-2000.webp)
Adam Pendleton
An Abstraction
May 3 – Aug 16, 2024
New York
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Adam Pendleton
An Abstraction
May 3 – Aug 16, 2024
GALLERY
540 West 25th Street
New York
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Pendleton’s first solo show at Pace’s New York gallery in ten years, An Abstraction follows a series of significant solo exhibitions by the artist at museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2022; and mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna in 2023. The return to his home city marks a continuation of his career-long project of creating spaces of engagement and “fighting for the right to exist in and through abstraction.”
In An Abstraction, the artist’s 12 paintings and 13 drawings will hang within a monumental, site-specific architecture consisting of five black triangular forms. These sculptural walls will reorder the gallery into new, unexpected spaces and extend the visual language of the exhibited works.
Bringing together the artist’s Black Dada and Untitled (Days) bodies of work, the new paintings and drawings in the exhibition feature a variety of marks—spray painting, stenciled geometric forms, and expressionistic brushstrokes—to blur distinctions between painting, drawing, and photography and propose painting as a documentary and performative act.
Pendleton’s new Black Dada works imbue his iconic black and white compositions with focused and saturated colors. Each of the paintings and drawings in this body of work bears one or more typographic letters from the phrase “BLACK DADA,” rendered in a sans serif font amid the artist’s gestural marks. Continually transposing and overwriting these two modes of inscription, Pendleton cultivates a living library of his own ever-evolving gestures and processes.
Paintings and drawings from Pendleton’s Untitled (Days) body of work will also be featured in An Abstraction. Using collagist strategies of indexing, daily mark-making, fragmentation, and recombination, these works create a cumulative portrait of the artist’s experimentations in the studio.
In spring 2025, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. will present Love, Queen, a landmark exhibition of Pendleton’s work that will anchor the institution’s 50th anniversary year.
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Adam Pendleton
Blackness, White, and Light: Hand-Painted Edition
Learn more about these 40 special editions hand-painted by Adam Pendleton on the occasion of the artist's first extensive European solo exhibition, mounted at mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, in 2023. The catalogue includes texts by by Marianne Dobner, Lynne Tillman, Adam Pendleton, Simone White, as well as a conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler and Adam Pendleton.
Featured Works
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-046-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-046-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-048-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-048-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-102-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-102-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-237-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-237-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-165-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-165-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-144-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-144-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-030-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-030-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-399-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-399-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-171-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-171-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-351-IP-JPG](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/AdamPendleton-PaceNY2024-351-IP-JPG.width-2000.webp)
![Portrait of Adam Pendleton](https://www.pacegallery.com/media/images/2024-01-15-MatthewSeptimus-AdamPortrait-JPG_.width-2000.webp)
Image Credit: Matthew Septimus
About the Artist
Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1984, Adam Pendleton completed the Artspace Independent Study Program in Pietrasanta, Italy, in 2002. His work has been featured at major museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others.