Glen Wexler “Fantastic Voyage”
April 1 - May 2, 2008
Opening Reception, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 7:00 - 9:00 PM

As most of you are probably aware (or at least those of you who do not cringe at spending 14 bucks for a movie), the ArcLight has photography hanging on it’s walls.

I am a fan of this cultural implementation, and am always surprised when whoever decides what goes up does not shy at posting something blatantly subversive to the “cult of personality” that greases the gears of Hollywood.

From their press release:

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.”

I am not sure what an art opening at a movie theatre entails. I figure I will just happen to see the show when I catch that new and stupid looking Jackie Chan film.

address: ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood
(Sunset Blvd at Vine Street)

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