Custom Built: Twenty-Year Survey of Work by Allan Wexler

Allan Wexler’s unorthodox practice explores the boundaries between fine arts and design as a means to explore the quotidian activity of daily life. Working across the fields of art, architecture, and design, he constructs furniture, vessels and structures as well as models and works on paper that isolate and elevate the individual acts of living. The conceptual framework for his investigations uses series, permutations, and chance to inform and invite a radical reconsideration of the ordinary. Custom Built was the first exhibition in the United States to chronicle the breadth of Wexler’s practice and traveled from the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, to the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.