PHT Lighting Design

(Continuation of previous post)

As pendleton.adam’s work shifted — smaller scale, more color — the lighting required a strategic adjustment. A minimal profile track system was integrated to maintain a clean ceiling plane, with controlled spot accents to activate color, texture, and layered text. Cooler color temperatures are still maintained throughout, in keeping with the chromatic intent of the paintings.

A long-term dialogue between artist and light — evolving as the work evolves.

Architect: fredericktangarchitecture
Photography: jasonschmidtstudio

For Adam Pendleton’s 6,000 SF Brooklyn studio, lighting has been an ongoing, evolving collaboration. This mixed-use space — painting studio, library, office, and viewing gallery — functions as a calibrated instrument for his practice.

pendleton.adam wanted no visible tracks and no exposed fixtures, so our original installation relied entirely on concealed, high-CRI tunable white linear sources providing bright, shadow-free, ambient light. This was perfect both for exhibiting the monumental black-and-white paintings he was creating at the time, and for the work spaces.

(See next post for the evolution of the work and the lighting.)

Architect: fredericktangarchitecture
Photography: jasonschmidtstudio