Dodi Wexler

Artist Statement

From incarnation, to life beyond completion, each artwork evolves through undetermined cycles. I work with a base of paper and incorporate fabrics, stamps, beads, maps, gold, ink, drawing, wood and anything else that seduces me. I canonize seemingly insignificant scraps of memory, precious only to me. Materials constantly redefine themselves. Every cut, stain, paste, paper, burn, stitch, reacts differently to every other. I trust my process like I trust the horizon and tides. Faith makes magic.

I work within a variety of themes and series including memory, journals, mapping, nature, feminism, political issues, “white”, woven and more……Process and materials give birth to meanings.

I fight loss through loving reconstruction of ephemera. I destroy and repair to try to possess. Through the process of making however, my precious content becomes even more irrelevant. No matter, this desperate salvaging labor proves my existence to myself. I hold onto a world that is gone. I try to preserve time. Then I let it go. My work demonstrates futile activity in life and exposes the frailty of being human.

In the end, tangible self-satisfaction arrives in moments of elation at my artistic reincarnations and constant unfulfilled desires. My hope is to share the exhilaration, wonder, and a little bit of the pain, that I feel.

Education

1998 M.F.A., Columbia University, New York, NY
1991 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Paris: Ecole des Beaux Arts, Atelier 64, and Atelier Loubet
1987 Cleveland Institute of Art, Lacoste, France

Honors

2001

Dieu Donné Paper Mill, juror for Workspace Program, New York, NY

2000

Dieu Donné Paper Mill, visiting artist project, New York, NY

1999

Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Juror’s Merit Award Nomination, TFAA, Austin, TX

1997

4th Place, Parents Foundation Art Competition, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2004

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, with Amy Steiner, New York, NY

1996

Pfizer Pharmaceutical Inc., New York, NY

1995

Limbo, New York, NY
Kinsey Marable, Inc., Washington, DC

1994

Bilhuber Inc., New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2003

metaphor, Paper 2003, Brooklyn, NY

2002

Dieu Donné, New Projects/Editions, New York, NY
Hales Gallery, YesteryearNowadays, London, England
Contemporary Arts Center, Sprawl, Cincinnati, OH
metaphor, Treehouse, Brooklyn, NY

2001

Pavel Zoubok, Inc., College in America, New York, NY

2000

TIAA/CREF, New York, NY

1999

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Pfizer Pharmaceutical Inc., New York, NY

1998

Texas Fine Arts Association, Transcending Limits, Texas tour
Columbia University, Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY

1997

Dieu Donné, Paper +, New York, NY
The Drawing Center, Selections-Winter 1997, New York, NY
Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT
Art School Annual, New York, NY
Wallach Gallery, 26 Positions, New York, NY

1995

Art Center of Battle Creek, Paperwork, Battle Creek, MI

1994

Parents Foundation Art Competition, New Haven, CT
Klamath Juried Art Exhibition, Klamath Falls, OR

Publications

2002

Contemporary, October ‘02, by Katie Kitamura, UK.
Evening Standard, Hot Ticket, 19/7/02, by Helen Sumpter, UK.

2000

WKCR FM 89.8, interview with Vivian Lehrer on Art Attack.
Time Out New York, Issue 238, by Robert Mahoney.
NY Arts International, Vol. 5 Number 4, by Deborah Everett.
The New York Times, Fri. 14/4/00, by Ken Johnson, NY.

1997

Review, December ’97, by Robert Murdock , NY.
Art Newspaper, December ‘97, by M.M, NY.

1995

Manhattan File, art included in a room installation.
Martha Stewart Living, art included in a room installation.
New York Magazine, art included in interior at Bilhuber.