Join curator and writer Solomon “Zully” Adler for a walkthrough of the exhibition Malicious Mischief.
Solomon “Zully” Adler is a curator and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, where his dissertation considers the life and work of artist Martin Wong. Adler’s projects focus on alternative and countercultural practices, principally in California during the late twentieth century. He is the recipient of the Watson Fellowship for international research on underground music objects, the Marshall Scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge and The Glasgow School of Art, the Shorenstein Research Fellowship at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Clarendon Scholarship in support of his studies at Oxford. Previous exhibitions include Brook Hsu: Signs of Life and Melvino Garretti: Space Versus Space at Vernon Gardens, Los Angeles, as well as In Exile: Paul Klee & Other German Artists and Mythos Psyche, Eros: Jess & California, co-curated with Nancy Lim, at SFMOMA. His most recent exhibition, Redd Ekks: X, was held at Arcadia Missa, London. Adler runs the Goaty Tapes music label and House Rules press, through which he published Casual Junk & Bedroom Mythology and Charlie Nothing: State of the Ding. His article on Wong’s early years in Eureka, “Humboldt Fog”, can be found in the November 2022 issue of Artforum.
