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- ‘Love, Queen’ is Adam Pendleton’s first solo present in DC, that includes new work and a significant video work.
- The exhibition blends abstraction, language and protest historical past.
The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC is internet hosting Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, the artist’s first solo exhibition within the metropolis. On view by way of January 3, 2027, the present options new and up to date work, together with a large-scale video set up, within the museum’s second-floor galleries.
Pendleton is understood for mixing portray, drawing, and pictures. He begins his items with ink, shapes, and textual content on paper, then pictures and layers them utilizing screen-printing. The result’s a daring visible language that mixes abstraction, minimalism and conceptual artwork.
The exhibition contains Pendleton’s signature “Black Dada,” “Days,” “WE ARE NOT,” and “Composition and Motion” work. These works typically use solely two colours over black backgrounds, drawing consideration to gesture and language.
Additionally debuting is “Resurrection Metropolis Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?),” a video projected ground to ceiling. The piece makes use of archival photos of Resurrection Metropolis, the 1968 protest camp tied to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor Individuals’s Marketing campaign. Mixed with discovered footage and flashes of geometric shapes, the movie blurs the road between historical past and abstraction. The rating, by Hahn Rowe, features a recording of poet Amiri Baraka.
Curated by Evelyn C. Hankins with assist from Alice Phan, Love, Queen runs alongside the museum’s everlasting assortment.
Hirshhorn Museum
Independence Ave SW &, seventh St SW
Washington, DC 20560
