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Indepth Arts News:
"Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the Work of
Allan Wexler"
1999-11-13 until 2000-01-16
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH,
USA United States of America
Artist, architect, inventor. Allan Wexler is
all these things. His work includes
projects-on-paper, models, furniture, and
non-functional and functional structures,
all of which explore extensive variations
on themes and celebrate creative
approaches to problems. Wexler tackles
problem solving with resourcefulness
and, often, the most basic of materials.
The
96
works
in
Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the
Work of Allan Wexler include
photographs, paintings and scale
models of unbuilt projects as well as
realized projects that document constant
themes in his work. Series 9, a series
of structures from 1980 built with uncut
2x4s and plate glass, is part of the
Construction and the Creative Process
theme. As part of the Human Daily
Rituals theme, Wexler completely dismantled a coffeemaker and displays its
pieces in a specially built box. In Nature Affecting Architecture, Wexler's Hat
Roof shows how nature, in this case rain, often dictates design.
A catalog with essays by Aaron Betsky of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, Christopher Scoates and Wexler is
available.
Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the
Work of Allan Wexler is a traveling
exhibition organized and circulated by the
Atlanta College of Art and the City Gallery
at Chastain. The exhibition is co-curated
by Christopher Scoates and Debra
Wilbur. The exhibition, tour and catalog
are made possible in part, by a grant
from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Georgia Council for the
Arts, the Fulton County Commission under the guidance of the Fulton County
Arts Council and the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
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