The Dorado Project (solo, 2016), Van Der Plas Gallery (solo, 2018, 2017, and 2015; three person – with Peggy Cyphers and Ford Crull, 2014), Gallery Gary Giordano (two-person, 2017), and H.P. Garcia Gallery (solo, 2009, 2010)). Group exhibition venues include The Curator Gallery, Ground Floor Gallery, Denise Bibro, Sideshow Gallery, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, and Creon Gallery. In 2017 Drexler received strong reviews in Whitehot Magazine and Arte Fuse, and was featured on The Kalm Report. Drexler's installation, Gauguin's Zombie, which toured from the Honolulu Museum (2002) to Maui Arts and Culture Center (2003) to White Box-The Annex, New York (2005), continues to be cited in academic publications such as The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion and Living Death (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and in Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism, (Bloomsbury, 2018). “Gauguin’s Zombie” was reviewed in New York Arts Magazine, Artweek Magazine, The Contemporary Pacific, Honolulu Weekly, Honolulu Star Advertiser, and The Maui News. Education and early career Drexler was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and worked as a professional model from the age of 2 to 7. As an undergraduate Drexler studied film, theater and painting at Northwestern University, San Francisco Art Institute, and Webster University. She holds an MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (1986). In 1986, she co-founded the non-profit Riverfaces in St. Louis with Ann Julien, which sought to create a positive sense of community identity through free arts workshops and an annual parade featuring giant puppets and thousands of masked participants. She served as Director of Riverfaces from 1986 to 1990. Following graduate school, she also had a number of exhibitions and reviews, including a 1991 review of her solo show at Utopian Loft (St. Louis) curated by Jerald Ieans in the New Art Examiner. In 1992, Drexler was hired in the area of drawing and painting at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During the 1990s Drexler's narrative work dealt with a number of themes, including feminism, the depiction of women in art and colonialism. In 1999, she spent a sabbatical in Australia, where she developed the idea for "Gauguin's Zombie". Notable early exhibitions include the solo exhibitions Postcards from Oahu at the Sarratt Gallery Vanderbilt University (1997), Bushlands at Northern Territory University in Darwin Australia. (1998), High Art and Low Life at Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (2004). Curatorial practice Drexler has curated a number of exhibitions