Looking Forward/Looking Back: In Conversation: Betsy Siersma and Allan Wexler
New York based artist Allan Wexler is a sculptor and industrial designer known for applying his unique vision to making structures, furniture and usable objects. His provocative body of work, spanning more than thirty years, is comprised of studies and experiments in modes of building and design -- meditations on form and function.
Allan Wexler's one-person exhibition Dining Rooms and Furniture for the Typical House premiered at the University Gallery in 1989. His work Crate House was included in the exhibition Home Rooms: Fred Schwartz, Allan Wexler and Billie Tsien and Tod Williams which was on view at the Univesity Gallery in 1991. The artist was a commission to design a living space that would articulate issues that might define the '90s. To solve this task he built a "crate house" by collapsing domestic space into small, fully functional, moveable components as a blueprint of a design for a "survival unit".
Wexler's large and diverse body of work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for more than two decades. He is the recipient of the 2005 Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.
Betsy Siersma was Director of the University Gallery from 1988 to 2004.
