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| Adam Pendleton, video still from My Education: A Portrait of David Hillard, 2011-2014. Image via pacegallery.com. |
April 4 – May 3, 2014
534 West 25th
Street
New York,
NY
From Pace
Gallery press release:
Pace
Gallery is pleased to
present an exhibition of
new works in
various media by
Adam Pendleton. On display in his first exhibition in New York since
2010, are four new 10-by-5 foot silkscreens on mirror polished stainless steel,
a large “painting” made in black silicone as well as a video installation, My Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard,
(2011-2014).
Adam Pendleton
is known for his
investigations into uses of language and history, through
works that reconfigure and shift
text and image to challenge accounts recorded
by widely accepted chronicles and as a
means to present the images and voices of those whose views
have gone largely under recognized. He continues this practice in My Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard,
a multiple large-screen v1deo installation filmed in Oakland, California in
2011.
The subject
of this work, David Hilliard, is a lecturer, educator, and founding member and
former Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party. In My
Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard,
Pendleton films Hilliard as he takes the viewer through the Oakland
neighborhoods that were home to the Black Panther movement, from the lots, houses,
and storefronts where the Black Panthers set up free meal programs for the
area's youth to the site of a fatal gun battle that took place on April 6, 1968,
two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. That day, in a confrontation between Oakland police
and members of the Black Panthers, two policemen were seriously wounded, as were
others on both sides of the battle, and Black Panther Treasurer Bobby Hutton was
fatally shot. Recorded history states that the Panthers initiated the firefight
through an ambush. Hilliard, who was present
at the time, states that the Panthers were followed and surrounded by police, who
initiated the fight.
In quiet,
contemplative tones and shot in black and white, My Education: A Portrait of
David Hilliard uses multiple camera angles to reveal different, contrasting
views of the same subjects, and the film raises questions and invites discussion about a fraught moment in American
history that continues to ripple through society. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
provided the original funding for My
Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard.
The
exhibition also includes four works that look closely at the random and arbitrary
disturbances that currents and wind play on the surface of water. The s1lkscreen
ink on mirror polished stainless steel pieces, all from 2014, are studies of
pattern and light that, through the reflective media, incorporate the viewer
and environment into the oversized
panels. Three of the four pieces are untitled, and the last is For David.
Black Sun (2013-2014) is a work that inverts the expected.
Based on a drawing of the sun by the late Sun Ra, the work captures the sun as
a series of circles and whirls with jagged spikes that break out through the edges
of the star. Cast in black silicone, Black
Sun synthesizes the limits of representation and abstraction.
For nearly
ten years, many contemporary thematic exhibitions have included work by Adam
Pendleton (b.1984, Richmond, Virginia). Most recently his work was featured in
the touring exhibition, Radical Presence:
Black Performance in Contemporary Art, which originated at the Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston (2012- 2013).
Adam
Pendleton has been included in significant
exhibitions in America and Europe including the Palais de Tokyo's La
Triennale (2012), where his video installation
BAND was presented following its
premiere at The Kitchen, New York (2010);
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New
York (2012); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New
York (2010); The Generational: Younger
Than Jesus, New
Museum, New York (2010);
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through
the Black Atlantic, Tate
Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino South Tyrol, Italy
(2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists
and the Civil Rights Legacy , High
Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008);
Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto
Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery,
London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Rolf Since
1967, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, ICA, London (2007);
Resistance Is, The Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York (2007); Frequency, Studio Museum of
Harlem (2005-06); and Double Consciousness: Black
Conceptual Art Since
the 1970s, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston (2005).
Adam
Pendleton's work is found in numerous
public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago; the Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San D1ego; and The University of
Chicago, Illinois.
The artist
lives and works in New York City and Germantown, NY.
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