Community Art Workshop: Fragmented Poetics
Adam Pendleton’s work involves a striking conversation between mediums, including painting, collage, screenprinting, and book arts. His works incorporate various materials—photocopies of poems and other texts, historical photographs, spray-painted and brushed marks—that are combined, screenprinted, and presented as painting again, changing the visual meaning of each component. Pendleton embraces multiplicity, incorporating paint drips, photocopy irregularities, and unexpected overlaps as a reminder that meaning is never stable The outcomes of this multilayered process resemble visual poems full of fragments of history and identity.
Join us for a two-hour art-making workshop inspired by Adam Pendleton’s multimedia artistic process led by graphic designer and illustrator Danielle Ridolfi. During this hands-on experience, participants will experiment with the power of juxtaposing diverse found materials to create a compelling visual poem using several of Pendleton’s methods, including collage and screenprinting. Each participant will create a composition by cutting and pasting an assortment of visual ephemera, text, and paper using a rule-based procedure that combines artistic choice with elements of chance. Participants will also learn to apply a screenprint texture to their collage to add layered meaning.