About

Currently lives and works in Portland, ME.

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Adler grew up throughout New York, Western Massachusetts, and England.  She received a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and a MFA in Fibers & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.

I am a multidisciplinary artist. I use the grid as a tactical mapping system, and a geometric configuration inherited from the past. It is a constant variable that is continually translated and transformed. Utilizing the grid as an accessible visual language, I make work inspired by complex systems and structures of power while challenging expectation through material potential. 

For example, building blocks made of rubber that both generate order and subvert order by being floppy and bouncy when you stack them, even though they look like a cube. This project invites participation and play which democratizes the white cube space and promotes heterarchy. 

I use systems to articulate ideas inspired by chaos and liminality. A between or in-between place that is both in motion and imperceptible. Between is an interaction, tangible and physical.  In-between is a correspondence, it is emotional, nuanced, and hard to determine.

PAST: Co-founder of contemporary art space, Adler & Floyd located in Chicago, IL. (2017-2020) Manager of art studio collective located in McKinley Park, Chicago, IL. (2017-2020)