Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady II Mixed media on canvas 123 x 97 cm R40,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady III Mixed media on canvas 192 x 137 cm R125,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady IV Mixed media on canvas 123 x 97 cm R40,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady V Mixed media on canvas 192 x 137 cm R125,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady VII Mixed media on canvas 123 x 97 cm R40,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady VIII Mixed media on canvas 97 x 77 cm R32,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady IX, 2016 Mixed media on canvas 97 x 77 cm R32,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady XI, 2016 Mixed media on canvas 60 x 80 cm R19,500
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady XIV, 2016 Mixed media on canvas 105 x 135 cm R45,000
Andrew Hart Adler Aqua Lady XVI, 2016 Mixed media on canvas 123 x 97 cm R40,000
For the past 35 years, Andrew Hart Adler has been showing his
His artworks have been exhibited even more widely – across
work on both sides of the Atlantic in the USA and Europe, and
the USA and Europe, alongside Masters like Picasso, Matisse,
now in South Africa, where he has established his studio in
Chagall, Pollock and de Kooning.
Woodstock, Cape Town. His second passion in life – rowing – brought him to Cape His journey from the shores of the United States to the foot of
Town for the first time in 1987 for a few short weeks. He
Africa has been anything but straightforward. Born in New
relocated here permanently a number of years later, setting
York City, Adler moved as a young child to London, where his
up his studio in industrial Woodstock.
mother sent him to an academy of art from the age of seven. With the death of their mother, his brother Christopher and he
Travel has always inspired him and been a necessary part of
returned to the USA to live with their father, Broadway
his work, but it is here in Cape Town for the first time that he
composer Richard Adler.
has felt centred. This centring has given rise to a body of work that is breaking new ground. These fresh, confident pieces
After completing his studies at the University of North Carolina
draw on Adler’s own history as well as the history of art, but
at Chapel Hill, Adler became the assistant to Willem de
find common focus in their freedom of expression and
Kooning for two years. A summer in Paris turned into fifteen
seeming spontaneity. They straddle the tense line between
years. Then six years in Munich were followed by eight years in
abstraction and figuration with a mixture of oil, dry pigment,
the south of France, with a period in Costa Rica, before a
silicon wax, gel medium and ink jet printing.
return to New York City and Sag Harbor. Adler has been driven by restlessness and rootlessness from place to place, always considering his studio his home.