Los Angeles-based artist Amy Adler works across the disciplines of drawing, performance, photography, and film. Her practice explores media and process considering subjects that exist between paradigms and identities. Born and raised in New York City, Amy is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. She attended Cooper Union and went on to receive her MFA in art practice from UCLA and an MFA in film production from USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has had multiple international and national gallery and museum exhibitions including solo projects at MOCA Los Angeles, the Aspen Art Museum, the UCLA Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She is Professor of Visual Art at UC San Diego where she has been teaching since 2004. And her current solo exhibition NICE GIRL is on view at the Orange County Museum of Art.
She and Zuckerman discuss Leonardo DiCaprio, family as subject matter, girls, and nice girls, protecting the vulnerable, power dynamics, the vulnerability in making art, self-love, time well spent, drawing in negative, her studio practice, working standing, technique and texture, and how there is always more!