--- title: 2017_Wexler_San Francisco Chronicle date: 2017-10-10T13:32:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-san-francisco-chronicle" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/keith-cottingham) [ Nancy Chunn ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/nancy-chun) D [ Eric Dyer ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eric-dyer) [ Milena Dopitová ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/milena-dopitova) F [ Carl Fudge ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/carl-fudge) [ Terry Fox ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/terry-fox) G [ Leon Golub ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/leon-golub-) [ Rico Gatson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [ Yishay Garbasz ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/yishay-garbasz) H [ Cameron Hayes ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cameron-hayes) [ Christine Hill ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/christine-hill) [ Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [ Kelly Heaton ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kelly-heaton) [ Margaret Harrison 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) Allan Wexler Explores Efficiency, Community San Francisco Chronicle Mar 14, 2017 "Allan Wexler’s new book, “Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design,” is mistitled. Most of the projects described in this heavy tome — thickly packed with photographs, texts and, above all, original ideas — are extremely sensible. With the emphasis on the extreme. Why, for example, if an umbrella sheds rain in one orientation, can’t it be used to collect water when turned upside down? Need communal seating on a steeply sloped floor? Don’t change the floor, change the seats and tables to serve the need by trimming legs here, propping there — or live with tilted tables but shim the dinnerware" **[Read more here](http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Allan-Wexler-explores-efficiency-community-11003969.php#photo-12547715)** Related News & Press Apr 30, 2017 [ ![Wexler Interchange 2008 A](/assets/exhibition_images/Wexler/2009-Overlook/Wexler-Interchange-2008-A.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-hyperallergic) Apr 30, 2017 Hyperallergic [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [The Designs of Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-hyperallergic) Apr 24, 2014 [ ![Wexler Sheathing The Rift 2014](/assets/exhibition_images/Wexler/2014-Breaking-Ground/Wexler-Sheathing-the-Rift-2014.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-wexler-hyperallergic) Apr 24, 2014 Hyperallergic [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [Breaking the Ground Between Art and Architecture](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-wexler-hyperallergic) Mar 29, 2017 [ ![Wexler Hat Roof 1993 B](/assets/exhibition_images/Wexler/Wexler-Hat-Roof-1993_B.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-artcritical) Mar 29, 2017 artcritical [Allan Wexler](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [The Andy Warhol of Architecture](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-wexler-artcritical) Oct 22, 2012 [ ![Heaton Beginning 2005](/assets/exhibition_images/Heaton/2012-The-Parallel-Series/Heaton-Beginning-2005.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2012-heaton-creative-capital) Oct 22, 2012 Creative Capital [Kelly Heaton](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kelly-heaton) [In Focus: Kelly Heaton's "The Parallel Series"](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2012-heaton-creative-capital) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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