| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DODI WEXLER September 10 – October 9, 2004 The Mostly Little Land of This and That PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of new and recent mixed media works by Dodi Wexler. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 10 from 6-8pm, or during the run of the exhibition, which continues through October 9. The gallery is located at: 533 West 23rd Street (between 10 th & 11th Avenues) Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-6pm The Mostly Little Land of This and That … the title of DODI WEXLER 's first solo exhibition with the gallery captures perfectly the infectious sense of play and material diversity of the artist's mixed media collages, constructions and installations. Wexler cuts, pastes, stitches, punctures and burns evocative fragments of ephemera (stamps, photographs, thoughtfully collected objects, found and handmade papers, etc.) into intricate and wildly organic structures that often reach imposing dimensions. Her work reflects a keen interest in the physical beauty and poetic force of nature, as well as a complex involvement with process and materials. Critic Judd Tully writes, “Dodi Wexler's obsessively hand-made constructions salute in part the great Modernists of yore, the trail-blazers who developed collage and assemblage as distinct and viable art forms, ones considered a bit renegade even today. Enter into that evocative history of flotsam-jetsam bits of pasted papers and found tram tickets, the ‘70's beacons of Robert Smithson and Eva Hesse. Add to that, layers of feminist genealogies ranging from the quirky paintings of Florine Stettheimer to the earthy sculptures of Ana Mendieta, and you begin to get a rough sketch of Wexler's eclectic pantheon of influences. Most or all of the above is firmly tethered to Wexler's own family history, culled in part from an amazing archive of black and white photographs and postage stamps collected from her grandmother's extensive art travels as a young woman in the Roaring ‘20's. These elements run through and form the artist's atlas of images…” Dodi Wexler has exhibited in New York and London since 1994, including exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, The Drawing Center, Dieu Donné and Pfizer. She received an MFA from Columbia University and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College . She now lives and works in London .
For additional information and images please contact Julie Brunner Cross at (212) 675 7490 or [email protected]
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