FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Glen Wexler “Fantastic Voyage”
April 1 - May 2, 2008
Opening Reception, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Please rsvp: jane@janeayerpr.com, 310 315.4881
ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood (Sunset Blvd at Vine Street)
E-mail: studio@glenwexler.com
Web site: http://www.glenwexler.com
Hours: Daily during normal business hours. One hour complimentary parking.
“On Location in Greenland” © 2006, archival pigments on paper, 36 x 83” and 18 x 41.5”.
GLEN WEXLER’S “FANTASTIC VOYAGE” PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION COMES TO THE ARCLIGHT CINEMAS HOLLYWOOD
Glen Wexler’s photography exhibition, “Fantastic Voyage,” April 1 thru May 2, 2008, at the ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood is a retrospective of popular culture images including works originally commissioned for album covers, magazine editorials, advertising and celebrity portraits. Stripped of the original commercial context the images often defy the boundaries of the photographic medium, art and commerce.
For over 25 years Wexler’s indelible images have straddled the line between art and commerce, and transcended both. According to Eric Idle of Monty Python, Wexler is also, “A seven-foot Scotsman with a wooden leg whom I met Frog Rolling on an Eskimo trip in Northern Greenland.” Believe what you will. That’s the point.
Wexler’s pictures have taken the viewer deep into make-believe worlds that look real. His signature style of “improbable realities” has earned an international client base and the following of photography collectors. “I've always had this notion that there's no such thing as an impossible image,” he says. “That's what drives me to create these credible, hyper-real, and surrealistic photographic narratives that go somewhere unexpected.”
Tim Wride, former curator of photography for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), states, “Wexler’s pictorial constancy as a risk taker and his deftness as a problem solver are the characteristics that distinguish his work and make his images both meaningful and memorable.”
Wexler photographed his first album cover for Quincy Jones Productions while still a student at Art Center College of Design. He quickly gained a reputation for his imaginative and elaborate photo illustrations for Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Rush, Black Sabbath, Yes, ZZ Top and many others. During the mid-1980s Glen’s images began to attract advertising clients. His signature style has earned an international client base including Acura, Sony, Maxell, Adobe, Warner Brothers Pictures and hundreds of others. Wexler also creates feature photo illustrations for TIME magazine.
The exhibit is open to the public, free of charge, daily during normal business hours. One hour complimentary parking.
For more information please visit http://www.glenwexler.com.
