Curated by studio artist / writer / DJ Dennis Kane
Adam Pendleton
re contextualizing language and history
Untitled (WE ARE NOT), 2021, Silkscreen ink on canvas
This week’s art selection features the work of Adam Pendleton. Adam’s work uses text and images to examine the glut of codes we negotiate and the hierarchies of power embedded in them.
“Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist (whose) work centers on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present and, as the artist has explained, “a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.””
Photo Credit:
Pace Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together
Elephant Art, Pope L. and Adam Pendleton, Art Can Mobilize Your Body
Idea Stream, Adam Pendleton’s “Black Dada” at MOCA
Art Forum, The Parallax View: The Art of Adam Pendleton
Moma, History Is Never Finished: An Interview with Adam Pendleton
Galerie Eva Prenhauser, Adam Pendleton
Portrait Credit: New York Times, Adam Pendleton is Rethinking the Museum
Wade Guyton
digital inkjet abstractions
This week’s art selection features the untitled works of Wade Guyton. Guyton uses an inkjet printer for his large paintings, letting the printers mistakes and inconsistencies arise. Initially his work was geometric, minimal and abstract; more recent offerings focus on the mundane: his studio, the daily paper, the incidental, juxtapositions of the everyday. Printed out in variations, a feedback loop that frames the process of absorbing images into the mind, examining what constitutes “representation” in our digital reality.
“Digital technology and indistinct copy-right laws have set off avalanches of artistic appropriation. But amongst bouts of nostalgia, bland remakes, reenactments, and reconstructions that mindlessly rehash old formulas and found objects, Guyton’s work stands out as a subtle reminder of the complexities and uncertainties of our time.”
Photo Credit:
Matthew Marks Gallery, Wade Guyton
Artnet, Wade Guyton
Emergent Mag, Reena Spaulings, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, Wade Guyton, New York City
Warwick Collection, Wade Guyton
Zabludowicz Collection, Wade Guyton
Ignant Magazine, The Work Of Art In The Age Of Compulsive Reproduction: Two Decades In The Oeuvre Of Wade Guyton, Thomas Pirot, Anna Sinofzik
Erica Baum
photograph poetry
For the first Wednesday art post, Kane has selected the photo collage work of Erica Baum. Erica is represented by the New York gallery Bureau. Baum’s work is a quiet but intensely resonate examination of looking, fragments, slices, folds, traces. Dynamics of power enfolded in the mundane. A sly challenge to the habits and presumptions of form.
Untitled (Simbolismo), 1994, (Blackboards), gelatin silver print, 20 × 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York.
Erica Baum, A Methode of a Cloak, 2020, exhibition view, Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf
“Erica Baum’s photographs examine the ways we use language to classify, index, and assert knowledge. Working primarily with obsolescent media from the twentieth century—card catalogs, player piano rolls, sewing patterns—Baum isolates serendipitous interactions among fragments of text and the surrounding visual field. Her carefully disorienting framing, as well as her more active interventions, grant a poetic charge to these encounters. ”
Photo Credit: Bureau NYC
Artviewer, Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Quote Credit: Rajesh Parameswaran, BOMB Magazine