About the Presentation
Jane Lombard Gallery will dedicate a solo presentation to Allan Wexler’s boundary-breaking work at the intersection of architecture, design, and art. A trained architect, Wexler (b. 1949) has innovated a conceptual approach to the built environment throughout his 50-year career. From his early ambitions to “become the Andy Warhol of architecture”, he has “imagined architecture as a theatrical backdrop for choreographing human interactions and daily rituals.” With wit and ingenuity, his drawings, images, objects, and installations alter perceptions of everyday domestic activities such as eating, bathing, sitting, and socializing, probing our environment as an instigator of social connectivity. Wexler disrupts and reframes the ordinary to foster communal experiences: interlocking shoes and shirt collars, a four-handled broom. A project exploring group dynamics, Coffee Seeks Its Own Level (1990), will be activated in a special live performance at the fair.
About the Gallery
Jane Lombard Gallery has a rich 25-year history. Seeking to promote emerging and mid-career artists across disciplines, the gallery maintains an established reputation for bringing to the forefront artists working within a global perspective relevant to the social and political climate of today.
Founded in 1995 in Soho as Lombard Freid Projects, the gallery later moved to Chelsea, first to 26th Street, then to 19th Street in 2010, reemerging as Jane Lombard Gallery in 2015. The gallery is now located at 58 White Street in Tribeca.
Allan Wexler, Coffee Seeks its own Level, 1990, coffee cups, vinyl tubing, fabric, table, 30 x 48 x 36 inches, courtesy of the artist
Allan Wexler Portrait, photography, courtesy of the artist
