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 graduated from Cooper Union and received an MFA in Visual Art from UCLA 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 is well known for her photographs 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,[10] about the life of porn star Skye Blue. In 2012 she directed the 26-minute documentary Mein Schloss[11]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2014 Location, ACME,[12] Los Angeles

2012 Director, Drammens Museum,[13] Norway

2010 Runaway, Gerhardsen Gerner,[14] Berlin

2007 Phantom Instrument, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin The Lesson, The Apartment, Athens, Greece Player’s History, Taka Ishii Gallery,[15] Tokyo, Japan The Sky Observer’s Guide (with Amy Cook), ACME, Los Angeles

2006 Make-Believe, Aspen Art Museum,[4] Aspen Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

2005 The Rainbow Hour, ACME, Los Angeles

2004 Virgin Sacrifice, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Unsolved Problems of Gravity, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2002 Unknown, Casey Kaplan, New York Young Photographer, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin Different girls, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo Di Caprio, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Amy Adler: Centerfold, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2001 Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo diCaprio, The Photographers’ Gallery, London Record of the Year, Art Statements, Art/32/Basel, Basel

2000 Chapter & Verse, Casey Kaplan, New York different girls, No Limits, Milan, Italy

1999 Only One, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo Why Would I Lie? Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Nervous Character, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1998 Focus Series: Amy Adler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Problem Child, Entwistle Gallery, London

1997 Once in Love With Amy, Casey Kaplan, New York

1996 What Happened to Amy? Casey Kaplan, New York

1994 Photographs, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles

Selected group exhibitions

2014 Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art

2013 The Very Large Array, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

2012 Accrochage, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin

2011 Goldmine, University Art Museum, Long Beach The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2010 Tracks and Traces, Galleria In Arco, Turin The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York DarkHorse, PHIL, Los Angeles

2009 Wall Rockets, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Drawing the Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego RE:NEW, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara

2008 Nord Nord West, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin

2007 Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Multiple Vantage Points, Southern California Women Artists, 1980–2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

2006 Hollywood Is a Verb, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

2005 High Drama: Eugene Berman and The Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens

2004 Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Monument To Now, Desde Foundation, Athens Subway Series, The Bronx Museum, New York Paper, Patricia Faure gallery, Los Angeles

2003 Something More Than Five Revolutionary Seconds, Fodazione Davide Halevim, Milan 160 Meisterzeichnungen, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida

2002 The Image Regained: Painting and Photography in the Eighties and Nineties, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano LA on My Mind, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles supersonic & alien, galleria s.a.l.e.s., Rome Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan, New York Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena

2001 New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens The Americans-New Art, Barbican Gallery, London Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston 1998–2001, Deste Foundation, Athens

2000 Urs Fischer with Amy Adler, Delfina Project Space, London Garden Party, curated by Laurie Simmons, No Limits Events, Milan Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea Casey Kaplan 10–6, New York Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1999 I’m not here: Constructing Identity at the turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A., 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham

1998 Still and Otherwise, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Where is your rupture? The Swiss Institute, New York

1997 Spheres of Influence: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA Los Angeles The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan, New York

1996 Stream of Consciousness: 8 Los Angeles Artists, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles Gender, Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle Skin Deep, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles A Glimpse of the Norton Collection, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica Self-portrayal, Post, Los Angeles Greatest Hits, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley

1994 Summer 1994, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles SuperWoman, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas

Film

2012 Mein Schloss[16]- Written and Directed by Amy Adler. 26-minuted documentary film Film Festivals: Outfest 2013, USC First Look FIlm Festival (winner Outstanding Documentary award), Portland Film Festival 2013, LA Shorts Fest 2013, 12th International Student Film and Video Festival in Beijing, 2014 Fargo Film Festival, Ethnografilm Festival,[17] Paris, France 2014.

2009 Ready For Love- Written and Directed by Amy Adler. 6-minute documentary film Film Festivals: Outfest 2009, MixMexico 2010

Works in public collections

Books

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Roberta (May 12, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Amy Adler". New York Times. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Amy Adler - 2006 - Archive - Aspen Art Museum". Old.aspenartmuseum.org. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hammer Projects: Amy Adler - Hammer Museum". The Hammer Museum. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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  7. ↑ "Amy Adler". Visarts.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Reflecting on Life's Darker Side". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "ACME. - Amy Adler". Acmelosangeles.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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  11. ↑ "Mein Schloss -". Meinschlossmovie.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "ACME.". Acmelosangeles.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "Amy Adler i Nøstetangenrommet -- Drammens Museum". Drammens.museum.no. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  14. ↑ Gerhardsen Gerner. "Gerhardsen Gerner". Gerhardsebgerner.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  15. ↑ "Taka Ishi Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー". Takaishiigallery.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  16. ↑ "THE FILM – Mein Schloss". Meinschlossmovie.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  17. ↑ "Ethnografilm Festival". Ethnografilm.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  18. ↑ "Twin Palms Publishers". Twinpalms.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  19. ↑ "Amy Adler (MOCA Focus Series)". Mocastore.myshopify.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  20. ↑ "Amy Adler - Taka Ishi Gallery / タカ・イシイギャラリー". Taka Ishi Gallery. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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