Amy Adler

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Amy Adler
Born1966 (age 58–59)
Nationality American
Education The High School of Music & Art
Cooper Union
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California

Amy Adler (born 1966) is an American visual artist. She works in multiple mediums, using photography, film and drawing. [1] She is currently a professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. [2]

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She has had one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [3] the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, [4] and the Aspen Art Museum [5] [6] as well as galleries worldwide.

Early life

Adler was born in 1966 and raised in New York City. [7] She attended The High School of Music & Art (now known as the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School) in Manhattan, [2] and graduated in 1984. Adler graduated from Cooper Union and received an MFA in Visual Arts from UCLA and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from USC. [2]

Works

Adler's photographs are shot from her own drawings. [3] 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. [8] The original drawings for the photographs, were destroyed. [8] [9] 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, [10] from 2014, she uses location shots as source material for her drawings. In her drawings and photographs, Adler has always worked intensively with the medium of film. During her study of Cinematic Arts at USC from 2009 to 2012 she began making her own films. In 2012 she directed the 26-minute documentary Mein Schloss, [11] [12] [13] and in 2016 she directed the 15 minute fiction film, Tear Jerker. [14] [15]

Exhibitions

Adler's first one-person museum show was at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 1998 as part of their "Focus Series." [3] Other solo shows include a "Hammer Project" at the UCLA Hammer Museum, where her project, Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo DiCaprio, was on display in 2002, [7] [16] solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, [4] the ACME Los Angeles, [17] [18] [19] [20] the Aspen Art Museum in 2006, [5] [21] and a solo project at the Drammens Art Museum in Norway in 2012. [22]

In the spring of 2005 Twin Palms Press released a monograph of her work entitled, "Amy Adler Young Photographer." [2] [23]

Public collections

Adler's work is in the permanent collections of The Broad, [24] The UCLA Hammer Museum, [7] and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, [25] the Deste Foundation, [26] LA County Museum of Art, [27] the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, [28] Pérez Art Museum, [29] and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. [30]

Bibliography

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Roberta (12 May 2000). "Art in Reivew; Amy Adler" . The New York Times . pp. E.36. ProQuest   2233505305. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Faculty: Amy Adler, Professor". Visual Arts - University of California, San Diego . Archived from the original on 3 October 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Knight, Christopher (12 December 1998). "Reflecting on Life's Darker Side; Amy Adler's conceptual hall of mirrors yields compelling visual results in a bit of a mixed show" . Los Angeles Times . pp. F1, F16. ProQuest   421389245. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2014– via amyadler.com.
  4. 1 2 Teagle, Rachel (2006). "Cerca Series: Amy Adler". Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2014– via amyadler.com.
  5. 1 2 "Exhibition - Amy Adler: Make Believe". Aspen Art Museum . 2006. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi (2006). The Sky's Observer's Guide (CD insert essay). Collaboration between Amy Adler and Amy Cook. Aspen Art Museum. Archived from the original on 30 September 2014 – via amyadler.com.
  7. 1 2 3 Isé, Claudine (2002). "Hammer Projects: Amy Adler". Hammer Museum . Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  8. 1 2 Smith, Roberta (17 May 1996). "Enter Youth, Quieter and Subtler" . The New York Times . pp. C.1. ProQuest   430574082. Archived from the original on 9 October 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  9. ↑ Schaffner, Ingrid (November 1996). "Amy Adler - Casey Kaplan". Artforum . p. 99. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2025– via amyadler.com.
  10. ↑ "Artists – Amy Adler". ACME Los Angeles. 2014. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ "First Film 2013 - Screening 1 Films". USC School of Cinematic Arts . 2013. Archived from the original on 18 June 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  12. ↑ "Mein Schloss - Movie". meinschlossmovie.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  13. ↑ Heiress to a German Castle? Uncovering a Family Legend | Mein Schloss - Documentary by Amy Adler (Video). Reality Ends Here. 13 November 2024. Archived from the original on 8 October 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025– via YouTube.
  14. ↑ Adler, Amy (Winter 2015). "[Tear Jerker]". Art Journal . 74 (4): 30–37. doi:10.1080/00043249.2015.1134916. JSTOR   43967680 . Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  15. ↑ "Facebook page for: Tear Jerker". Facebook . Archived from the original on 8 October 2025. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  16. ↑ Knight, Christopher (22 February 2002). "Photos of Drawings of Photos: DiCaprio Twice Removed". Los Angeles Times . pp. F.34. ProQuest   421691740. Archived from the original on 9 October 2025. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  17. ↑ Mizota, Sharon (12 December 2014). "Amy Adler at play with forms at once concrete and abstract" . Los Angeles Times (published 17 December 2014). pp. D.3. ProQuest   1636580008. Archived from the original on 11 February 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  18. ↑ Broersma, Virginia (6 December 2017) [10 December 2014]. "A Roving Locus: This has been a regular consideration in Adler's work: alluding to things unseen while complicating singular definitions of her subjects and mediums". HuffPost . Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  19. ↑ Duncan, Michael (March 2008). "Amy Adler at ACME". Art in America . Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2025– via amyadler.com.
  20. ↑ Duncan, Michael (12 March 2015). "Amy Adler". Art in America . Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  21. ↑ Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi (2007). "Amy Adler: Make-Believe". Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2025– via amyadler.com.
  22. ↑ "Advice on drawing - Amy Adler in the Nøstetangen room". Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History . 1012. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  23. 1 2 "Products: Amy Adler, Young Photographer". Twin Palms Publishers. 2005. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  24. ↑ "Art: Amy Adler". The Broad . Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  25. ↑ "Artst: Amy Adler". Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . Archived from the original on 19 July 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  26. ↑ "New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection". DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art . 2001. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  27. ↑ "Angel, Amy Adler [1991]". Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  28. ↑ Stiff, Burl (10 July 2007). "New works added at MCASD". The San Diego Union-Tribune . pp. E.9. ProQuest   272990221.
  29. ↑ "Photography: Once in Love with Amy, Amy Adler [1997]". Pérez Art Museum Miami . Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  30. ↑ "Exhibitions - Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art". Santa Barbara Museum of Art . 2014. Archived from the original on 20 March 2025. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  31. ↑ AMY ADLER (B. 1966) DIFFERENT GIRLS #9, Christies
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