Glen Wexler is an influential photographic artist well-known for pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, producing digitally enhanced photo illustrations of manufactured or altered realities. Wexler’s images have exhibited internationally and are in the collections of several prominent collectors and celebrities.
Fall 2005 Wexler commemorated 25 years of his career with a gallery exhibition in Los Angeles and the release of his retrospective book “25:25”. Tim Wride, former Curator of Photography for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), writes in the book’s foreword, “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.”
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“More than the pioneer of digital photography, you are considered its leader. You have influenced a lot of young photographers, so it seems like you lead a true movement, a true shift in art.”
– from an interview with Glen Wexler, French PHOTO
“For Wexler, it’s all part of making the image come to life. True to his original goal, he’s created his own form of fine art.”
-Communication Arts
“Glen Wexler is a digital wiz, seamlessly manipulating elaborate photographic imagery into playful fictions.”
– Christopher Knight, Art Critic, Los Angeles Times
“Glen Wexler doesn’t just create rock and roll album covers, he is rock and roll – in the best sense of the term. His album covers rock in their lyrical depiction and expansion of musical moments. He captures the essence of the artist and then wails with his own solo, creating a new entity that actually stands on its own.”– Michael Ochs, Author and Rock Music Archivist, Curator of “The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were” exhibition for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
“The same way that Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp created nonsensical narration and thoroughly enjoyed successfully pulling our legs, photographers can now cut and paste their ideas the same way painters cut and paste ideas from their imagination to canvas, all for the purpose of creating a narrative and telling a story. This is a cohesive body of work. Glen with his surrealist attitude is really having fun with us.”
-G Ray Hawkins, photography gallerist and curator, remarking on “The Secret Life of Cows” exhibition
“The observer-spectator is entertained, applauds and fantasizes – as if at the movies – allowing him or herself to be lulled by the miracles of these animated worlds and their incredible new characters. And, we ask: are we sleeping or awake?”
-Zoom
“Wexler has assembled some of the most memorable advertising campaigns and imagery for musicians in the past 20 years.”
-Photo District News
“Glen is a seven-foot Scotsman with a wooden leg whom I met Frog Rolling on an Eskimo trip in Northern Greenland. We were sheltering in a sauna at a local bordello with an Icelandic babe called Splut…”
– Eric Idle, from the foreword of “The Secret Life of Cows