GLEN WEXLER

MOMENTS OF BEAUTY (2022)

 

Dimensions: 25 x 25 in.

Edition: 20 + 2 AP

Medium: Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic

Frame: White box frame with museum acrylic

Price: $3,200

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Moments of Beauty condenses landscape, body, and atmosphere into a single charged image of perception. Centered on an enlarged eye surrounded by leaves, droplets, and floral forms, the work oscillates between intimacy and artifice, tenderness and visual excess. The iris becomes a kind of interior world—part biological detail, part liquid cosmos—while tears and suspended droplets read simultaneously as emotion, ornament, and optical event.

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Rather than presenting beauty as stable or purely decorative, the image treats it as fleeting, unstable, and intensified by contradiction. Organic forms merge with synthetic surfaces, and the familiar anatomy of the eye becomes a liminal threshold between inner and outer worlds, seeing and being seen. Scale remains deliberately unsettled: the image can be read as extreme close-up, dream landscape, or symbolic icon, shifting continuously between bodily immediacy and surreal invention.

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The work carries Wexler’s improbable realities into the realm of affect and sensation. Beauty appears here as an event of suspension—briefly held between wonder and melancholy, sensuality and distortion—where the act of looking becomes both desire and a confrontation with the instability of what appears most vivid.