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ACT VI · ENCOUNTER

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FÀP ESSAYS · INTERVIEW
10 / 2025

ACT VI
Encounter

Artist — Adam Pendleton
Perfumer — Rodrigo Flores-Roux
Medium — Visual Art


»when you encounter my paintings, I hope they conflate process and time.«

The sixth act. The synthesis. The work is finished and on the wall, no longer the painter's alone. Someone arrives. Painting leaves room for whoever comes to it. Process and time, folded into one moment. Every act before it, present at once. The smell of meeting.

Created with Adam Pendleton, from a conversation at the Folie studio in Brooklyn (2025). Six fragrances that translate painting not as image but as state, capturing how Pendleton's practice moves between speed and stillness, and asks us to feel the making as much as the made.

VULNERABLE, CERTAIN · SEAMLESS · RESOLVING · THE SYNTHESIS

MATERIALS
the whole collection, woven into one


Each bottle carries its own artwork.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Adam Pendleton. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE



FÀP ESSAYS · INTERVIEW
10 / 2025

ACT VI
Encounter

Artist — Adam Pendleton
Perfumer — Rodrigo Flores-Roux
Medium — Visual Art


»when you encounter my paintings, I hope they conflate process and time.«

The sixth act. The synthesis. The work is finished and on the wall, no longer the painter's alone. Someone arrives. Painting leaves room for whoever comes to it. Process and time, folded into one moment. Every act before it, present at once. The smell of meeting.

Created with Adam Pendleton, from a conversation at the Folie studio in Brooklyn (2025). Six fragrances that translate painting not as image but as state, capturing how Pendleton's practice moves between speed and stillness, and asks us to feel the making as much as the made.

VULNERABLE, CERTAIN · SEAMLESS · RESOLVING · THE SYNTHESIS

MATERIALS
the whole collection, woven into one


Each bottle carries its own artwork.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Adam Pendleton. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

 
 
 

Photography by ANNA PLA-NARBONA

Adam Pendleton — American artist born 1984 in Richmond, Virginia. A central figure in contemporary American painting, Pendleton has redefined the medium through his exploration of abstraction and process. He started writing poetry at an early age and began painting in his basement, finishing high school two years early before attending the Artspace Independent Study Program in Pietrasanta, Italy. Moving to New York at eighteen, he developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, silkscreen, collage, video, and performance. Pendleton describes his work as "Black Dada"—a phrase coined by poet Amiri Baraka—exploring the relationship between Blackness and abstraction through a conceptual framework that filters ideas from the Black Arts Movement, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Dada. His paintings are created through distilled layering of gesture, fragment, and form, beginning on paper and transformed through screen-printing processes. He signed with Pace Gallery in 2012 at age twenty-eight, the youngest artist to do so since the 1970s. Major exhibitions include Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art (2021—2022) and Love, Queen. at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC (2025—2027). Pendleton jointly purchased Nina Simone's childhood home in 2017 with Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, and Julie Mehretu. He received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2024.

website:
www.adampendleton.net