The Studio Museum in Harlem

Adam Pendleton, Collected (Flamingo George), 2009, Photo: Russell Watson

For Collection Imagined, inaugural artist Adam Pendleton (artist in residence 2008–09), used the titles of works in the permanent collection to create Collected (Flamingo George) (2009), installed on the wall of the Studio Museum’s courtyard. Pendleton’s text-based installation challenges the normative function and construction of language, through a process of chance and specificity. This work joins other public works created for the Museum, including David Hammons’s (African-American) flag (2004) on the Museum’s facade and Glenn Ligon’s Give Us a Poem (2006) neon work in the atrium.

Collection Imagined is a new initiative of The Studio Museum in Harlem that activates and reinvigorates the permanent collection. Conceived andorganized by Studio Museum PR Manager and Editor in Chief Ali Evans, with installation direction by Exhibition Coordinator Marc Bernier, this project invites contemporary artists to explore the work, ideas, themes and artists in the Museum’s collection to produce new works of art.

Adam Pendleton lives and works in New York, NY and attended the Artspace Independent Study Program, 2000, Pietrasanta, Italy. In 2008 he had a residency at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum of Art, Boston, MA, and has exhibited at the New Museum, New York, NY; the High Museum of Art,Atlanta, GA; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. He participated in theStudio Museum’s exhibition Frequency in 2005.