Artist Highlight: Adler Guerrier

Meet Adler Guerrier, a resident Bakehouse artist whose multidisciplinary practice delves into the complex relationships between place, landscape, and the narratives that cultivate our sense of meaning around the two. Through photography, collage, painting, works on paper, and sculpture, Adler creates artworks that engage his lived experience while reflecting, and subsequently challenging, the historical and socio-cultural forces that shape this experience.

Can You Tell Us About Your Artistic Practice?

My practice is focused on the relations between place, landscape, our presence, and the narratives that give life meaning.  Through the use of photography, collage, painting, works on paper, and sculpture, my art practice aims to produce works that engage the reality in which I live, shaped by a particular throughline of history, conscious of the imposition of dominant hierarchies, and indebted to various radical cultural traditions. I try to make artworks that matter to the lives around me, to help them endure conditions we did not choose, and imagine ways to be better. 

Tell Us About A Personal Artistic Project Or Body Of Work That You Are Currently Excited About.

On my studio wall, there is a series of images of sunsets, photographs made from the vintage of Bakehouse and other sites.  When the sky is full of color and awe, a moment is marked, positions and dispositions are sometimes heightened, one temporal cycle signals its end, while another announces itself. There is a dramatic framing of optimism within a sunset. Probing the mundane is exciting.

Tell Us About How You Have Developed As An Artist Since You Began Working At Bakehouse.

Being at Bakehouse allows me to make work and try things and lay them out and see how they inform each other into becoming artworks.  It has been enjoyable.