NWSA: Art 3-D Comprehensive
Fall
2017/Section 1/Friday/1:10pm - 3:45pm Room 5102
Instructors: Hans Evers & Phillip Lique
Adler Guerrier
Guest Critic for
assignment #3 critique and assignment #4 start up
Adler Guerrier was born in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami, FL, where he received a BFA
at the New World School of
the Arts. Guerrier recently had a solo exhibition at Perez Art Museum Miami,
Miami, FL. He has exhibited
work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL; The Bass Museum of Art,
Miami, FL; Harn Musem of Art,
Gainesville, FL; and The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found
in public collections
including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in
Harlem, NY. His work
Adler Guerrier creates visual
dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier
improvises between form and
function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity,
class, and culture. He calls
upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal
composition
to designate to art history
an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and
juxtaposition in his
immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending
age of
post-demography.
From David Castillo Gallery
Miami-based artist Adler Guerrier (b. 1975)
works in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, prints, and collaged works on paper. Guerrier’s
practice investigates the mutability of text and image and the variability of
meaning. He is as interested in politics as he is in poetics, and his work
explores the rich territory between them. Often using Miami as a physical site
and an embodiment of realized (and unrealized) moments in American political
and social history, Guerrier examines, repurposes, and sometimes fictionalizes
the city through his work. Guerrier’s oeuvre is expansive in its engagement
with the urban environment, art history and materials
"'Formulating a Plot'
... provides a view into Miami as a city with a distinct character that relates
to broader narratives of history"
Thom Collins
Director
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Adler’s Website:
