LIVES AND WORKS IN
New Jersey, NJ & New York. NY
EDUCATION
| 1975 |
M.A. (Art History), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| 1970 | B.A., B.F.A., Brooklyn College |
ROLE AT THE FQM
Guest Curator
Jeffrey Wechsler was Senior Curator at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey from 1983 to 2011, and Curator at Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York from 2011 to 2014. Specializing in lesser-known aspects of twentieth-century American art, he reveals to the public the artistic and historic value of worthy but previously underestimated artists and styles. These exhibitions included Surrealism and American Art, 1931-1947 (1977), Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960 (1982), Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions (1989), and Asian Traditions / Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945-1970 (1997), and Transcultural New Jersey: Crosscurrents in the Mainstream (2004).
Exhibitions on non-American themes include: Kratky Film: The Art of Czechoslovak Animation (1991) and India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections (2002). After retirement from Rutgers University, Jeffrey Wechsler has continued to be active in independent curatorial work. Recent museum exhibitions include “Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from indigenous Communities in India”, traveling exhibition for International Art and Artists, joint curatorship, 2017; “Collage: Other Dimensions”, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey (2019); and “The National Association of Women Artists: Then & Now”, The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey (2022). In 2023, he wrote catalogue essays for solo exhibitions of Hayoon Jay Lee and Ralph Iwamoto for the Hollis Taggart Gallery in New York City.
CONTRIBUTED TO
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| July 11 -Sep 14, 2024 | Transcultural Dialogues: The Journey of East Asian Art to the West |
