2009
Haunch of Venison, Berlin
Hardcover
120 pages
235 × 168 mm
Adam Pendleton is a New York-based artist and a central figure amongst a cross-generational group of painters defining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction in the 21st century. Known for formally inventive and conceptually rigorous works that blur distinctions between the act of painting, drawing, and photography, Pendleton’s paintings and drawings feature a variety of sprayed, stenciled, and layered gestures, as well as textual fragments and fields. A polymath, Pendleton also edits critical anthologies, makes films, and composes site-specific exhibitions and sculptural interventions. For over a decade, Pendleton has articulated his approach to art through the framework of Black Dada, an evolving inquiry into the relationship between Blackness and abstraction.
[Pace Gallery]
Adam Pendleton’s Systems of Display juxtapose a rich archive of found images with fractured words, using screenprinted mirror and glass. The publication produced to accompany an exhibition of these works and Pendleton‘s Black Dada paintings uses this mixture of graphic image and typography as an integral part of its structure, both dividing and illustrating texts and other editorial matter. For the book's cover, a facsimilie of a Sol LeWitt Incomplete Cube was built and photographed, referencing Pendleton's appropriation of these works in his series of Black Dada paintings.
Adam Pendleton: EL T D K was included in the AIGA’s 50 covers 50 books awards in 2010.
Includes an essay by Jena Osman and interview with Krist Gruijthuijsen.
