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Portfolio
EMMA ADLER
VIDEO WORK PORTFOLIO
SCULPTURE PORTFOLIO
The Billboard Project, 2024
"The Billboard Project," Iron and PCV Board, 2024
This work looks at video game culture and its uses of hypermasculinity as an ad space through symbolism and iconography in popular contemporary media. My work has focused on documenting US culture and American consumerism through video art and forms of advertisement/consumer media. The language of consumerism is multifaceted, and the majority recognize it when trained through hyper-feminine indoctrination. "The Billboard Project" asks how consumerism functions, when and where, how we encounter it, and its influences on the main themes involved around stripper culture, sex worker culture, and drug culture in America.
This work looks at video game culture and its uses of hypermasculinity as an ad space through symbolism and iconography in popular contemporary media. My work has focused on documenting US culture and American consumerism through video art and forms of advertisement/consumer media. The language of consumerism is multifaceted, and the majority recognize it when trained through hyper-feminine indoctrination. "The Billboard Project" asks how consumerism functions, when and where, how we encounter it, and its influences on the main themes involved around stripper culture, sex worker culture, and drug culture in America.
Extension, 2023
4”x1”
Reconstructed and rewired light panel, glass orbs, spray paint
Reconstructed and rewired light panel, glass orbs, spray paint
Till Death Do Us Part, 2022
Map Legend, 2022
Map Legend is a curated collage representing altitude and noise variation in a set terrain, including other abstract elemental variations. Based on a visual analysis of environmental impacts on perception utilizing OCCA's research on color chemistry and its variations based on environmental stimuli such as noise, altitude, light, and background, I created a map key that translates these elements into color signifiers and textural signifiers.
Skull Mirror, 2022
Red Fur Chairs, 2023
Plush, faux fur upholstery custom series for Maddie Ivey LLC and Spillage Village
2020, 2020
Eden, NC
“Eden, NC” is a video piece that consumes the viewer through sensory deprivation, like dissociation in a car ride, a breakup, or a stalker not too far behind us. The elements in this work contradict each other with their gentle, comforting, cozy elements, especially when they are unfocused and fuzzy. Inspired by highway loop videos and European art school aesthetics this homemade road movie depicts artificial ambience through Emma Adler’s connection to this rural desolate town.
Pale
"Pale" is a visually abstract composition that references the subtleties of everyday life—the fleeting moments that define our existence yet frequently go unnoticed. When isolated and decontextualized, these fragments of time reveal profound insights into our shared humanity.
Prosthetic Memory, 2023
"Medicine Cabinet", 2023
Reconstructed light panel, acrylic, resin
2' x 2'
2' x 2'
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