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Aaron Wexler, Erotic City<\/i>, 2014, acrylic painted paper and print material collaged on paper, 16.5″ x 24″.<\/p><\/div>\n

Aaron Wexler\u2019s new solo show, \u201cThe Basket Looked Like an Ocean, And I Was Just Throwing Rocks In It<\/a>,\u201d opens tomorrow at Morgan Lehman Gallery. Wexler\u2019s work uses elements of collage, printmaking, and painting; these new projects include everything from Audubon illustrations to found photographs of jungle gyms.<\/p>\n

Shapes are everything in Wexler\u2019s work. He seems consumed by the moment when order becomes chaos, when geometry lapses into anarchy: even when his palette verges on the neon, his great subject is the tangle of nature. \u201cI am in awe of nature every day,\u201d he told BOMB <\/em>in 2010<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a city kid from West Philadelphia; nature is one giant mystery to me. I love the redwoods; I love scary looking tropical flowers; I love how weeds grow out of dirty bricks on nearly deserted streets. I love how innocently sexual nature is and how it surrounds us (if we\u2019re lucky and in the right places). Most of all though, I love how organic objects can seem so foreign, alien, and new\u2014an endless source of forms and imagery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As the name of his show suggests, Wexler has a knack for titles\u2014his best summon a kind of hallucinogenic outlandishness, but you can always sense a raised middle finger hovering somewhere in the background. They sound like the best albums our rock luminaries never recorded: The Love Life of a Leaf<\/em>, Sure<\/em>, After the Glitter Is Gone<\/em>, and\u2014a personal favorite\u2014Erotic City<\/em>, after the Prince song. (When in doubt, always borrow from Prince.) <\/p>\n

\"wexler<\/a>

The Love Life of a Leaf<\/i>, 2014, acrylic painted paper and print material collaged on paper, 25.75″ x 21.5″.<\/p><\/div>

\"wexler<\/a>

Plotting Against Yellow<\/i>, 2014, acrylic painted paper and print material collaged on paper, 22″ x 30″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Wexler\u2019s new solo show, \u201cThe Basket Looked Like an Ocean, And I Was Just Throwing Rocks In It,\u201d opens tomorrow at Morgan Lehman Gallery. Wexler\u2019s work uses elements of collage, printmaking, and painting; these new projects include everything from Audubon illustrations to found photographs of jungle gyms. Shapes are everything in Wexler\u2019s work. 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