Vitruvian Woman
by Tiffany Cadler
“Vitruvian Woman seeks to exaggerate, skew, and poke fun at classical postures and proportions, as well as their orders. This series lays a foundation for a playground by which eccentric profiles might be interpreted from her shadows and be constructed into material formations for future sculptures. I would like to continue building on this idea of interrogating classical patriarchal operations of building with eccentric sculptural interventions, at a scale by which one could associate with the column, by way of process and materiality.”
Tiffany Adler is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Adler is trained in art and architecture. After graduating with her Masters in Architecture in 2017, she practiced at several firms, simultaneously developing her artistic practice and curating and showing works for solo and group exhibitions among galleries in Los Angeles, including Wonzimer and Modest Common. In 2023, Adler’s first short film was accepted into five film festivals, both locally and internationally and exhibited in a group show with Before the Moon Falls Gallery. Adler decided to leave the profession of architecture in 2023 to focus solely on her career as a visual artist. Adler’s background in art and architecture informs and deviates from the processes upon which her sculptures and contemporary narratives are derived from. Her interests lie both in the process of sculpture as well as the conceptualization, fabrication, and construction of a scene, in service of communicating alternative narratives within classical frameworks of representation and architectural forms. In a woven effort, she explores and portrays evolving cultural ideas about feminism and human connection. Her experiences as a female identifying person informs her work symbolically through material manipulation, misbehaving formations of the body, and satirical narratives within the medium of film and photography. She often incorporates her own body as part of the narrative, and as a vehicle for communicating such ideas. Tiffany hopes to continue this work by affording herself the time and space needed in order to continue developing as an artist. Her most recent residency at GlogauAIR taught her that community and exchange among fellow artists, especially internationally, is invaluable to her growth and body of work. While in Berlin, Tiffany’s Vitruvian Woman, which spars with Da Vinci’s representation of “the perfect man”, a drawing and representation that has influenced young architects and thus the built environment at its foundation, became a bridge for her skill sets between photography and sculpture.
