Encodings: Artists in Residence 2008-09 October 7, 2009

The 2008-09 artists in residence are Khalif Kelly, Adam Pendleton and Dawit L. Petros. Khalif Kelly's paintings depict the allegorical tale of a preadolescent hero and his friends on their adventures in a mythical land. While the paintings' composition and subjects are often borrowed directly from historical old master paintings, they feature hard edges and striations from the low-bit computer graphics that inspire their style. Adam Pendleton's conceptual practice uses language as its medium. Sometimes he works with language literally by combining text and image, and other times figuratively by treating sculptural objects as an alphabet. During his residency, Dawit L. Petros took a series of walks around Harlem. Out of these meanderings came Petros's 'Harlechrome' series (2008-09), which photographically isolates and captures colors and textures from the area to create an abstract and semiabstract photographic archive of Harlem.