Ran Adler, an artist of assemblage, uses various elements of nature as his medium, each united by the common characteristic of having grown around us. Through these components, utilizing intense wiring, weaving and stringing techniques, Adler explores the essence of repetition found in various religious cultures in the symbols of the Catholic Rosary, or Buddhist and Hindu Prayer Beads. As a young boy, Adler stood on the shallow banks of the Missouri River and stared into the small currents running contrary to the main flow, sometimes rotating into furious whirlpools. Some forty years later – finding expression in the very elements that surrounded him as a child (horsetail reeds) – Adler’s installations and assemblages are ironic representations of the primal forces of wind and water and transcend the limits of conscious memory. Ran Adler has completed commissions and installations for corporate and private collectors throughout the United States and South America. His work was jury selected for “Florida Contemporary” at the Baker Museum of Art, Naples FL (2016), and has been shown at various galleries, museums and alternative spaces. “Art is often, for the artist, an exercise in personal growth. For me, as I work on the tapestry of my life story, I find the repetitive nature of my art to be a form of prayer and a path to strengthen my personal discipline.” - Ran Adler