GLEN WEXLER

CERULEAN DREAM (2024)

 

Dimensions: 41 x 53 in.

Edition: 10 + 1 AP

Medium: Chromaluxe dye-sublimation on aluminum

Frame: White wood float frame

Price: $8,500

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Cerulean Dream reflects Wexler’s more recent engagement with perceptual abstraction, where landscape becomes less a depicted place than an immersive field of light, color, and sensation. A crescent moon hovers above rippled sand, and the scene is held within a saturated cerulean atmosphere that softens distance, quiets contrast, and gently destabilizes orientation. The image feels both intimate and expansive, as if one were standing in a real desert while simultaneously entering a dream of one.

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In dialogue with the legacies of Light and Space, the work emphasizes the experience of seeing over narrative event. Subtle tonal gradations and luminous color relationships transform the desert into a reflective environment in which surface, horizon, and sky begin to merge. The finely articulated sand retains tactile presence, yet scale remains fluid: the foreground reads as immediate and bodily while the distance opens into something atmospheric, cosmic, and nearly weightless.

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Its emotional resonance lies in the balance between rigor and reverie. Formal restraint invites a slower, more contemplative encounter, while chromatic intensity and suspended stillness create a sense of wonder. Here, Wexler’s improbable reality unfolds through a quieter register—one in which transformation occurs through perception itself, and emptiness becomes a deeply felt presence.