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Arlene Vidor: Photography will be on view at ace/121 Gallery Saturday, October 25 – Saturday, Noember 22, 2025. Opening Reception will be Saturday, October 25 from 6:00PM-8:00PM. Free and Open to the Public.
About the Artist:
Love of architecture was the impetus for picking up the camera in Chicago in my early 20s. In 1991, I migrated west.
Even though the LA area drives me a little nuts (ok, I know we all feel this way at times), I’m grateful to live in this visually insane multiverse; it is unfinished, grand, decayed, and beautiful – ‘beautiful’ in the broadest sense imaginable. The collision of dense urban space and open land is irresistible to me and is now best expressed in digital photo collage form.
I have no commitment to either color or black & white photography; the image tells me which one it prefers.
Photo collage: Photographs are my ‘found objects’ taken promiscuously and carelessly in the way assemblage artists may gather up trash on the street. I put this digital debris into my computer and that’s where the second phase of fun starts: extensive photo manipulation and ‘doodling’ drive me and the results are often a surprise.
Photographs: Sometimes a single image sticks, especially if it is a favored subject like architecture, land or an accidental abstraction.
Visual Ear Worms: Closely related images made obsessively because some commonplace visual juxtaposition of objects or scenes gets stuck in my head. Examples: (1) a single palm tree standing sentry in front of a structure, (2) a little house eclipsed by a big cactus.
Arlene Vidor
October 18, 2025
