Photo: Lina Bertucci
Adam Pendleton is an artist, writer, and performer who approaches all his projects as multi-disciplinary hybrids. They can be seen as investigations in search of a dynamic mid-space location between first- person and third-person experiences of knowledge and historical production.
Often working with silkscreen, Pendleton has been noted for his ‘complicating’ use of text and imagery, both appropriated and self-generated. Recent projects, such as History and BAM SPLIT LAB, have brought together diverse political and art historical references with a selection of texts from avant-garde writers, and the artist himself. Through extreme freedom of reference and quotation, together with a dismissal of conventional hierarchies between sources, he aims to create a perpetual de-historicized present tense; one that upsets and imbalances comfortably subjective interpretations of history and culture.
In 2005, Pendleton founded LAB, a think tank practicing research, documentation, art, and design. Among other projects, LAB publishes LAB MAG, an experimental magazine that collects the work of artists, architects, writers and designers.
Pendleton’s autobiographical performance-piece So I Independent in Georgia in the 90’s was published by Yvon Lambert in 2006. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S., notably at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005) and the Studio Museum in Harlem (2005-6). In 2007 he will have a large-scale installation of paintings on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and will be appearing in Performa ’07, New York’s performance art Biennial.
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