Artist, architect, inventor. Allan Wexler is all these things. His work includes projects-on-paper, models, furniture, and non-functional and functional structures, all of which explore extensive variations on themes and celebrate creative approaches to problems. Wexler tackles problem solving with resourcefulness and, often, the most basic of materials. The 96 works in Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the Work of Allan Wexler include photographs, paintings and scale models of unbuilt projects as well as realized projects that document constant themes in his work. Series 9, a series of structures from 1980 built with uncut 2x4s and plate glass, is part of the Construction and the Creative Process theme. As part of the Human Daily Rituals theme, Wexler completely dismantled a coffeemaker and displays its pieces in a specially built box. In Nature Affecting Architecture, Wexler's Hat Roof shows how nature, in this case rain, often dictates design.

A catalog with essays by Aaron Betsky of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Christopher Scoates and Wexler is available.

Custom Built: A 20-Year Survey of the Work of Allan Wexler is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by the Atlanta College of Art and the City Gallery at Chastain. The exhibition is co-curated by Christopher Scoates and Debra Wilbur. The exhibition, tour and catalog are made possible in part, by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Fulton County Commission under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council and the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.

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