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 The High School of Music & Art (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, 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. In 2012 she directed the 26-minute documentary Mein Schloss,^[10] and in 2016 she directed the 15 minute fiction film, Tear Jerker.^[11]

Exhibitions

Amy Adler’s first one-person museum show was at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles ^[12] in 1998 as part of their “Focus Series”. Other solo shows include a “Hammer Project” at the UCLA Hammer Museum in 2002,^[13] solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,^[14] The Aspen Art Museum in 2006,^[15] and a solo project at the Drammens Art Museum in Norway in 2012.^[16]

Works in public collections

Adler's work is in the Permanent Collections of the Drammens Museum, Norway;^[17] the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA;^[18] Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece;^[19] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA;^[20] The Broad Art Foundation, CA;^[21] the LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA;^[22] Pérez Art Museum Miami;^[23] and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA.^[24]

Bibliography

• Adler, Amy (2005). Young Photographer. Twin Palms Press. ISBN 978-1-931885-37-9. 
• Adler, Amy (2002). Different Girls (numbered series). Taka Ishii Gallery. ^[25]
• Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman (2006). The Rainbow Hour. Adler, Amy (illustrator). Aspen Art Press. ISBN 0934324360. 

Literature

• Amy Adler at play with forms at once concrete and abstract (The Los Angeles Times,Sharon Mizota, Nov 2014)
• A Roving Locus: A Conversation with Amy Adler
• Amy Adler: at Acme (Art In America, Michael Duncan, March 2008)
• Aspen Art Museum (Amy Adler: Make Believe, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, 2007)
• CD, drawings by Amy Adler (Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Liner Notes "Amy Cook, The Sky Observer√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Guide",
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Rachel Teagle. "Cerca Series: Amy Adler", 2006)
• Adults intrude into make-believe (The Los Angeles Times, David Pagel, September 2005)
• Twin Palms Publishers (Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Amy Adler Young Photographer, 2005)
• Photos of Drawings of Photos:DiCaprio Twice Removed (The Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, February 2002)
• UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Claudine Ise, "Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo DiCaprio", 2002)
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (Paola Morsiani, "Relative Positions: Amy Adler, Liza May Post, Francesca Woodman, 2001)
• Art in Review: Amy Adler (The New York Times, Roberta Smith, May 2000)
• Amy Adler curates Joni Mitchell (Artext, Malik Gaines, May 2000)
• A Thousand Words: Amy Adler (Artforum, M.G. Lord, April 1999)
• Amy Adler: Surrogates (Artext, Liz Kotz, May–July 1998)
• Reflecting on Life's Darker Side: Amy Adler (The Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, December 1998)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Connie Butler, " Amy Adler", 1998)
• Amy Adler (Time Out New York, Linda Yablonsky, September 1997)
• Amy Adler (Artforum, Ingrid Schaffner, November 1996)
• Enter Youth, With Subtlety (The New York Times, Roberta Smith, May 1996)

References

External links

• Official website
• Amy Adler "Art City:Simplicity" on YouTube