Jill Adler
He Used to Get Us Cookies From Gracie's (Grace’s) Market (2021)
Media: Double-sided screenprint on artist's two-tone handmade cotton paper (cut and folded by hand), handmade cotton paper pulp cookies with acrylic paint
Statement: This piece consists of a handmade paper screenprinted pastry box with two painted handmade paper cookies inside, and is an edition of ten. In homage to the boxes of cookies my Dad used to bring home as a surprise for my sister and I when we were younger.
Classic Dadwear (2021)
Media: Folded screenprint on artist’s handmade denim paper
Statement: The handmade paper in this piece is made of 100% cotton denim jeans, which were cut, beaten, and then pulled into sheets. After drying, the sheets were screenprinted and then folded into their final shape. Edition of ten.
Jill Adler (b. 1996, Manhattan, New York) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2021 and her BFA in Painting, with concentrations in Book Arts and Printmaking, from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Adler’s work incorporates a wide array of media, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, and ceramics. She has exhibited work in galleries throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Jill Adler currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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