Allan Wexler "Overlook"
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
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The Ronald Feldman Gallery will exhibit works from the last five years by Allan Wexler whose thirty-year career resists easy classification. One of a group of artists who began to question the perceived divide between disciplines in the late 1960’s, Wexler draws from the fields of the visual arts, architecture, and design to examine art’s place and purpose. He explores the idea of function, posing the question: Is it art when it looks like a chair? The exhibition features a series based on transformations of the ordinary chair. In some works, the chair as metaphors for human interaction, ritual, and ceremony; in another, a choice between creativity (the drawing) and destruction (the chair). Also on view is "Studies for Small Buildings and Landscapes," a series of intricate constructions that relate to invention and perception. The exhibition will also provide information about Wexler’s most recent public project, "Overlook," made in collaboration with Ellen Wexler, and commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit for the Long Island Rail Road, which opens this Fall in the new Atlantic Terminal at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. The monumental artwork evokes the rocky overlooks found in national parks that encourage travelers to pause and view the scene below.
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00