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Adam Pendleton is American art’s new ideas man

Mak ing marks

PHOTOGRAPHY: JEREMY LIEBMAN WRITER: TF CHAN

ARTIST ADAM PENDLETON

IN HIS BROOKLYN STUDIO

WITH TWO OF HIS SILKSCREEN

WORKS: UNTITLED (A VICTIM

OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY),

2017, LEFT, AND A WORK FROM

THE BLACK DADA SERIES

Billowing above New York’s Randall’s Island Park,

Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter) may be Adam

Pendleton’s best known artwork. It features his easily

recognisable visual style – all black and white, with

declarative text superimposed on found imagery, and

photocopier marks that bear witness to the creative

process. Its message is typical Pendleton, imbued

with the history of America’s racial struggle and given

newfound urgency by recent social upheavals. And (^) »
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