Ruby Nell Sales (2022)

How do you make sense on an emotional intellectual and pragmatic level of the visual residue one leaves behind This is a pivotal question for Adam Pendletons recent abstract paintings on view here which involve a process of accumulation in which the surface of the canvas teems with sweeping gestures language drips splatters and moments of erasure in a reflection of how we evolve in life Pendleton has explained that these works verge on the monumental they can take months to make and capture a deep history of marks and impressions Minor moments become major moments because of how they articulate who we are or who we might be at any given moment Its a visual poetics of disruption These paintings Pendleton has suggested ask how do you leverage subvert and deploy your subjectivity We all are doing it all of the time It becomes more interesting when were aware that were doing it