Saturday, June 11, 2022, at 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Heather Gaudio Fine Art Projects
78 Elm Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
Wexler uses sourced materials ranging from photographs, printed imagery, illustrations, and his own drawings to create intricately collaged panels and works on paper. Each element is carefully layered and woven into a graphic framework of color, form, and varying textures. Shapes and lines reveal and conceal themselves as they navigate and compete for space on the surface.
In addition to the optical network of color and forms, Wexler plays with texture and weight through the use of different materials. Pieces of the coarse and raw canvas are juxtaposed with thinly painted, more transparent Japanese paper, suggesting a push and pull between the permanent and the ephemeral.
Wexler earned his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, he has had a prolific career and has been included in several solo and group exhibitions in New York, London, Kyoto, and Tokyo, including the Katonah Museum of Art and the National Academy Museum in New York. His work is also in many collections among which are Saatchi, Fidelity Investments, and the Mitsui Fudosan collection, among others. Wexler lives and works in New York City.