Adam Pendleton’s original and powerful body of work has been described as the embodiment of a new era. His multifaceted projects, which include painting, collage, film and publishing re-contextualize historical and theoretical positions on abstraction, blackness and the avant-garde. Working predominantly in black-and-white, Pendleton often creates ‘total works’ that envelop viewers and push the limits of contemporary discourse.

A rising star in the international art scene, Pendleton is currently represented by PACE in New York, London and Hong Kong; Shane Campbell in Chicago; David Kordansky in Los Angeles; Max Hetzler in Berlin; Pedro Cera in Lisbon; and Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

The author

Alec Mapes-Frances is a writer living in New York.

Adrienne Edwards is currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Andra Picard is a curator