Deploying a variety of media including photography, drawing, and video, Adler Guerrier explores the effects of particular geographical, political, and historical environments on identity formation. Combining the techniques of photographic observation with a studio art practice and urban wanderings, the artist maps the places of everyday life with lyrical resonance. Considering walking to be a political and poetic act, Guerrier takes to the streets, capturing images of desolate urban spaces washed in a nocturnal glow and taking pictures of private backyards saturated with vernal colors; he also makes cryptic drawings of himself frequently accompanied by poetic texts such as playing scratchy records and concerted action. Relating his work— typically arranged in groupings— to the fleeting observations of a contemporary wandering flaneur, the artist notes, “My work has to do with movement, narrative, and is also concerned with the perceived and fictional portrayal of places”.
Guerrier received a BFA from New World School of the Arts at the University of Florida and has been included in many group exhibitions including the “Whitney Biennial” Whitney Museum 2008; “Conditions of Display” at The Moore Space and Locust Projects, both in Miami; and “10 Floridians” at Miami Art Central. He has had solo exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum and at Newman Popiashvili gallery, where he most recently presented “Black, Red & Tang”.
Born in 1975, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Guerrier lives and works in Miami, Florida.
