Adam Pendleton: Who Owns Geometry Anyway?

07 Nov – 19 Dec 2025
New York City, USA
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Friedman Benda presents Who Owns Geometry Anyway?, an exhibition by Adam Pendleton marking the artist’s first collaboration with the gallery and his debut exploration of furniture as form. Known for weaving together expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual rigor, Pendleton reimagines geometry as both language and structure.

Circles, squares, and triangles — recurring motifs in his paintings and sculptures — reappear here in wood, onyx, and granite, transformed into functional objects that merge precision with poetics. The works engage the surrounding architecture through painted geometric interventions, creating a total environment that blurs the line between art and design.

Evoking Isamu Noguchi’s belief that art should be inseparable from its setting, Pendleton’s installation reflects on form, tension, and openness—suggesting that geometry, like meaning, is always contingent, shifting, and shared.

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