In 1979, a car accident shifted Howardena Pindell’s approach to art. Then 36 years old and a decade into her career, Pindell was using video, paint, and photography to explore the process of destruction and reconstruction. After a car smashed into the V. W. she was sitting in, she brought an autobiographical perspective to that theme. Pindell began tracing her body, making cutouts of it, and adding these to her large-scale paintings. She took postcards she had collected on trips abroad, cut them into strips, and added them to canvases she would later paint with acrylics. Pindell’s first solo show at a public organization in the U.K. tracks the artistic evolution that began in the 1970s. Two video art pieces—one from 1980 and the other from 2020—are presented with a selection of her mixed-media paintings. —Jensen Davis