Jill Adler
Some Chips

Media: Screenprint on handmade flax paper with blowout, with life-size handmade cotton paper tortilla chips

Artist Statement:
My work is focused on nostalgia, and questions how objects and environments can be altered through the process of remembering them. I’ve dug through the metaphorical trash can of my childhood and early adult life, and have collected everyday objects like packaged goods, food, furniture, and signage. Using handmade paper and printmaking processes, I physically reconstruct these memory objects, giving life to items that have long since been gone. Each piece has a specific narrative woven into it, often involving the people and places I associate most strongly with the original object.

Biography

Jill Adler (b. 1996, Manhattan, New York) received her BFA in Painting, with concentrations in Book Arts and Printmaking, from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019, and is a candidate to receive her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2021. Adler’s work incorporates a wide array of practices, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, bookmaking, and ceramics. She has exhibited in group exhibitions at Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA; Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA; Orchard Art Collective, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Jill Adler currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.