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Allan Wexler

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After school he set up a studio in New York City. His work continued to question the perceived divide between fine art and the applied arts and between function and poetry. His studio practice includes a wide range of media and activities including sculpture, installations, museum interventions,
133:(born 1949) is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator. A practicing artist since the early 1970s, Wexler works with sculpture, photography and photo-based drawings that poetically and often humorously explore the natural world, our senses and how our environment affects daily rituals. 164:
Wexler entered the Rhode Island School of Design to study architecture. "In the late 1960's he was an early member of the group of architects and artists who questioned the perceived divide between art and the design disciplines. They called themselves visionary architects or
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Wexler has taught fine art, design, and architecture for over 40 years, currently on the faculty of Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has taught, and lectured internationally for most of his career including at Pratt Institute,
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Wexler's work is exhibited both in the United States and internationally. Included among his recent exhibitions and public works are SACRA Buffalo, New York 2019, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 2019, the Wheaton Art Center, Millville,
211:. He found the practical needs of clients and the scale of architecture to be a distraction and so he shifted from the practice of architecture to studying the poetics of buildings, rooms, and utensils. 1116:"Allan Wexler, structures for reflection : the small buildings, furniture and utensils of Allan Wexler = Die Kleinen Gebäude, Einrichtungen und Utensilien von Allan Wexler / Michael Fehr, Hrsg" 706: 1034: 1165: 428: 1155: 1150: 497: 463: 386: 517: 422: 1049:"The Jewish Museum Presents First Henry J. Leir Prize Awarded to Honor Outstanding Work of Art That Reinvents Ritual for The 21st Century" 475: 458: 224: 1072: 846: 250: 1170: 981: 784: 760: 699: 452: 150: 822: 1006: 434: 1030: 915: 414: 939: 963: 1048: 228: 146: 1097: 724: 651: 1160: 166: 154: 182: 142: 30: 122: 871: 1145: 808: 207: 181:
Ritual, ceremony, and memory became the content of his experimental work. New influences seeped in -
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Review of Allan Wexler's work at Venice Architecture Biennale by American art critic Aaron Betsky
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New York City Board of Education, Cultural Affairs. Three permanent installations in schools.1999
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Art Critical - The Andy Warhol of Architecture: Allan Wexler talks about his art and thinking
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Furnishing the Primitive Hut: Allan Wexler's Experiments beyond buildings by Aaron Betsky
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Allan Wexler - Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design, 2017 Lars Müller Publishers
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Living Space for Artist in Residence, Mattress Factory Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1988
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Allan Wexler: Structures for Reflection. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Germany1993
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Henry J. Leir Prize, Reinventing Ritual, Jewish Museum, New York. (2009)
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Celebrating the power of transformation at Venice Architecture Biennale
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Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, Chrysler Award for Design Innovation
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Hyperallergic - Allan Wexler - A Radical Deconstructor of Habitation
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Wexler was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1949. He received a
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Wheaton Conversations: Artists Allan Wexler & Virgil Marti
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1972 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Architecture
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Wexler has worked collaboratively with his partner and wife
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Allan Wexler, architecture and nature by Michele Calzavara
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Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, Artists Choose Artists
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1971 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Irony and the Power of Artistic Production, Michael Fehr
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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH installation,
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Contemporary Artist Sculpture, Public Art, Multimedia
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Creating Problems: A Conversation with Allan Wexler
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allanwexlerstudio.com

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Architecture
Rhode Island School of Design
Master of Architecture degree
Pratt Institute
paper architects
Japanese Tea ceremony
The Primitive Hut
Duchamp
Warhol
Beuys
John Cage
Poetics of Space
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Design Academy Eindhoven
Ellen Wexler
Hudson River Park

Jewish Museum

Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design

Review of Allan Wexler's work at Venice Architecture Biennale by American art critic Aaron Betsky
Celebrating the power of transformation at Venice Architecture Biennale
Creating Problems: A Conversation with Allan Wexler
Allan Wexler: Artist Spotlight
Wheaton Conversations: Artists Allan Wexler & Virgil Marti

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