PARIS.- Mennour announced the representation of American artist Adam Pendleton (1984-). A central figure among a cross- generational group of painters, he has redefined the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. His paintings—simultaneously expressionistic, minimal, and conceptually rich—feature both stark contrasts and subtle variations in tone and finish. They are a tangible manifestation of his belief in painting as a powerful “visual and conceptual force.”


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Mennour will present a recent painting at Art Basel in June 2025, and a solo exhibition is planned for autumn 2026 in Paris.

For over a decade, Pendleton has articulated his approach to art through the framework of Black Dada, an ever-evolving inquiry into the relationship between Blackness and abstraction. His visually distinct and conceptually rigorous paintings begin on paper with drips, splatters, sprays, geometric shapes, words and phrases, and inky fragments reminiscent of broken letters. These compositions are photographed and then layered using a screen- printing process, purposefully blurring the distinctions between the act of painting, the act of drawing, and photography. An encounter with any single work, typically composed of two colors on black gessoed grounds, brings forth the immediacy of gestural abstraction, the considered execution of minimal and conceptual art, and the playfulness of concrete poetry.

In parallel, Adam Pendleton is decidedly a polymath who edits critical anthologies, makes films, and composes site-specific exhibitions and sculptural interventions. His work has been shown at major museums around the world. Recent solo and group exhibitions include mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria (2023–2024); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (2023–2024); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2022); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021– 2022).

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington will devote a solo exhibition to him, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen”, from April 4, 2025 to January 3, 2027.


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