Amy Adler

Amy Adler (born 1966) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She works in multiple mediums, using photography, film and drawing.[1] She is currently a Professor of Visual Art at the University of California, San Diego.

Life

Amy Adler was born in 1966 and raised in New York City. She attended Music and Art High School (now known as the Fiorello H. Laguardia High School) in Manhattan and graduated in 1984. She graduated from Cooper Union and received an MFA in Visual Art from UCLA (mentioned in the List of University of California, Los Angeles people) and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from USC. She has had one person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles..,[2] the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego[3] and The Aspen Art Museum[4] as well as galleries worldwide. Her project, Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo DiCaprio,[5] was shown at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2002. In the spring of 2005 Twin Palms Press released a monograph of her work entitled, Amy Adler Young Photographer.[6] Her work is included in several permanent collections including The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Amy Adler currently lives in Los Angeles and is Professor of Visual Art at the University of California San Diego[7]

Works

Adler's photographs are shot from her own drawings.[8] In the 1990s, she developed a translation process, from photography to drawing back to photography. The final product, a unique photographic print of the drawing, became the original. The original drawings for the photographs, were destroyed. This is to be understood as a production process that puts the notions of authenticity and original in question and expanded.

In 2006, Adler inverted this process and now displays the original drawings, but always in relation to the intervention of media. For example, in her oil pastel drawings entitled, Location,[9] from 2014, she uses location shots as source material for her drawings.

In her drawings and photographs, Amy Adler has always worked intensively with the medium of film. During her study of Cinematic Arts at USC from 2009–2012 she began making her own films, creating the six-minute film Ready for Love, about the life of porn star Skye Blue. In 2012 she directed the 26-minute documentary Mein Schloss[10]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2012

Film

2012

Works in public collections

Adler's works have been exhibited at Drammens Museum, Drammen Norway, and at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.[13][14]

Bibliography

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Roberta (May 12, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Amy Adler". New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
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  4. ↑ "Amy Adler – 2006 – Archive – Aspen Art Museum". Old.aspenartmuseum.org. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hammer Projects: Amy Adler – Hammer Museum". The Hammer Museum. August 8, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20140220051618/http://www.twinpalms.com/?p=backlist&bookID=16. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ "Amy Adler". Visarts.ucsd.edu. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Reflecting on Life's Darker Side". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ "ACME. – Amy Adler". Acmelosangeles.com. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Mein Schloss -". Meinschlossmovie.com. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Amy Adler i Nøstetangenrommet – Drammens Museum". Drammens.museum.no. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ "THE FILM – Mein Schloss". Meinschlossmovie.com. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ http://drammens.museum.no/english/advice-on-drawing-amy-adler-in-the-nstetangen-room
  14. ↑ http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2002/hammer-projects-amy-adler/
  15. ↑ AMY ADLER (B. 1966) DIFFERENT GIRLS #9, Christies

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