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Arlene Vidor: Photography, a solo exhibition on view at ace/121 Gallery from October 25 through November 22, 2025 with a public opening reception on Saturday, October 25 from 6:00-8:00pm, offering visitors the opportunity to meet the artist and explore her vibrant body of work that celebrates – and wrestles with – the layered landscapes of Los Angeles.
About the Exhibition
In Arlene Vidor: Photography, the artist aims her eye at the varied and colliding scapes of Southern California – a place she describes as “unfinished, grand, decayed, and beautiful.” Trained on the architecture, juxtapositions, and accidental abstractions that define urban and suburban life, Vidor’s photographs and digital collages reveal the poetry and rhythms in the everyday.
From palm trees standing sentry before modern facades to the tension between open land and built form, her work often explores what she calls “visual ear worms” – images that linger and loop in her mind. In Vidor’s process, photographs become found objects, fragments of visual debris that are digitally manipulated, layered, and reassembled into compositions that surprise both artist and viewer.
About the Artist
Arlene Vidor is a photographer, urban explorer, preservation advocate, and civic arts leader whose deep engagement with Glendale’s cultural life spans more than three decades. She is currently serving her third term on the Glendale Arts & Culture Commission, is President Emerita of the Brand Associates, and sits on the advisory council of The Glendale Historical Society.
A longtime champion for historic preservation, Vidor has successfully nominated multiple landmarks to the Glendale Register of Historic Resources, including the Brand Park Entrance Gates, the Adams Square Richfield Gas Station, the Brand Cemetary, and Wallace House. Her leadership has been recognized with The Glendale Historical Society’s Zelia Blanton Preservation Award and Carol Dougherty Lifetime Achievement Award.
In addition to her civic leadership and photography work, Vidor is a violinist with the Cantabile Chamber Players, bringing a multidisciplinary sensibility to her creative practice. She holds a degree in Biology and formerly served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Baxter BioScience before dedicating her life to community engagement and the arts.
“The collision of dense urban space and open land is irresistible to me and is now best expressed in digital photo collage form,” says Vidor. “I put this digital debris into my computer and that’s where the second phase of fun starts: experimenting, distorting, doodling, and discovering unexpected connections. Working with Glendale Arts and showing this body of work at ace/121 Gallery feels especially meaningful because it brings my creative life full circle. This is where I’ve spent so many years championing the arts from a civic and community standpoint, and now I get to share the personal, visual side of that passion with the very community that inspires it.”
