ADAM PENDLETON/

At first sight, Pendletons series seems to strongly emulate LeWitts in its reliance on synecdoche: each Black Dada painting contai ns a cropped, hence incomplete, Incomplete Open Cube, as well as an incomplete version of the phrase 'BLACK DADA,' represented by on ly a few of its letters, as if gaps had opened up between them. But there are crucial differences. Given LeWitts algebraic compulsi on, incompleteness notwithstanding, autonomy emerges as an unavowed horizon of his work. 'The idea becomes the machine that makes th e art.' No ...[Read more]