--- title: 2025_Hyperallergic_Wexler date: 2025-02-12T13:38:00-05:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2025-allanwexler-hyperallergic" 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) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ View With Images ](/artist_overview) Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A [ Arakawa ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) [ Conrad Atkinson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/conrad-atkinson) [ Eleanor Antin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [ Ida Applebroog ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [ Jim Anderson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jim-anderson-) B [ Alexander Brodsky ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) [ Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [ Brodsky & Utkin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brodsky-utkin) [ Chris Burden ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/chris-burden-) [ Joseph Beuys ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) C [ Cassils ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [ Keith Cottingham ](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 ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/margaret-harrison) [ Shih Chieh Huang ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) J [ Simone Jones ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/simone-jones) K [ Brian Knep ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [ Komar & Melamid ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [ Peggy Jarrell Kaplan ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/peggy-jarrell-kaplan) [ Vitaly Komar ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) L [ Kim Levin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kim-levin-) M [ McCarren/Fine ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mccarren-fine) O [ Pepón Osorio ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [ The Oakes Twins ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) P [ Bruce Pearson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) [ Panamarenko ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin ](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 Magnifies the Absurdity of the Everyday Hyperallergic Feb 10, 2025 An architect by training, Wexler creates wonderfully clever, imaginative, and elegant sculptures that magnify the absurdities of everyday activities. In the center of the white, windowless, subterranean downstairs of the gallery, for instance, sits “Light Table” (2021). Constructed of simple planar volumes and painted institutional gray, the sculpture is determinedly grim. Clear glass dishes and bowls, laid out as though for a meal, are partially submerged into the tabletop. Bright white lights illuminate the glassware from below. A tangled viscera of black electrical cords droop below the table, delivering power to the lights and adding a touch of the dystopian. In leaving the cords so casually exposed, Wexler makes clear that he isn’t performing a magic trick but rather presenting an industrial effect, something managed through mechanical devices and integrated into the world of power grids and domestic untidiness. If his work is otherworldly, its strangeness is still tethered to this one. [**Read More Here**](https://hyperallergic.com/988319/allan-wexler-magnifies-the-absurdity-of-the-everyday/). 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