GLEN WEXLER

LUNAR THRESHOLD (2022)

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Dimensions: 13 x 13 in.

Edition: 7 + 1 AP

Medium: Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic with resin varnish

Frame: Ebony walnut float frame

Price: $1,800

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Lunar Threshold presents the moon, a prop constructed by Wexler, as both celestial body and staged apparition. Suspended in a dark, atmospheric chamber and held within a downward shaft of light, the orb hovers between scientific object, ritual icon, and theatrical presence. The image is austere and concentrated, reducing the scene to a few elemental conditions—mass, shadow, illumination, and air—while intensifying the viewer’s awareness of distance and gravity.

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Its power lies in the tension between the cosmic and the constructed. The moon’s cratered surface retains tactile, observational specificity, yet its placement within an enclosed, stage-like space destabilizes ordinary scale and context. What should belong to the night sky is drawn into intimate encounter, where the vast is rendered proximate and the familiar becomes strange. Smoke and shadow thicken the atmosphere, making the image feel less like depiction than an event of appearance.

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Through restraint and concentration, the work extends Wexler’s improbable realities into a language of suspended attention. It occupies a liminal zone between spectacle and contemplation, image and presence, where perception slows and looking becomes a psychological threshold as much as a spatial one.