- Object Name:
- Sukkah Model
- Artist/Maker:
- Allan Wexler
- Bio:
- American, b. 1949
- Title:
- Earth/Wall Raised (Study for Sukkah)
- Place Made:
- New York, United States
- Date:
- 1988
- Medium:
- Basswood; hydrostone cast in sand
- Dimensions:
- 8 × 13 × 15 in. (20 5/16 × 33 × 38 1/8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of the Jewish Museum New Generation Council
- Accession Number:
- 1992-164
Not On View
When commissioned to create a sukkah, Wexler designed numerous models, representing his view that there are essentially an infinite number of solutions to any design. The artist felt that "this little building for dining needs to balance on a fine edge between many forces. Between Heaven and Earth, sky and ground, freedom and slavery, God and Man, the Housed and the Homeless, between roots and branches."
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