Tim Hamill Lecture: Adam Pendleton

  • Starts: 6:30 pm on Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Adam Pendleton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work mines the histories of art and of social movements to create densely layered, conceptual works. Combining painting, silkscreen, collage, video, installation and performance, his broad output is united by a monochrome aesthetic and an engagement with the limits of meaning in both language and images. In his work, historical avant-garde strategies are recontextualized to address the black experience in America. Pendleton’s Black Dada, an ongoing interdisciplinary project in publishing, painting, installation and more, addresses the possibility of a new avant-garde language for African American experience. Pendleton poses urgent yet open-ended questions about the ownership of cultural history and the legacy of Modernism in the present.

The Tim Hamill Lecture is part of the Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series at Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts. Co-sponsored by the BU Arts Initiative and the African American Studies Program.

Location:
Jacob Sleeper Auditorium. 871 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Registration:
https://www.facebook.com/events/384606745575958/
Contact Name:
Deirdre James
Contact Phone:
(617) 353-2795

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