In "Downtown LA 1," Glen Wilbert photographs the intersecting walls of buildings in downtown Los Angeles, framing a lavender upper wall, a deep purple beam, and a coral lower wall that meet at sharp diagonals, with a palm and a glass tower visible through the gap.
The composition is built almost entirely from flat planes of color and angle: the textured lilac stucco above, the diagonal purple band cutting across the center, and the orange wall rising from below. Glen pointed the camera up and across so the architecture breaks into clean geometric shapes, with a small protruding light fixture and the fronds of a palm tree the only curved elements. A pale, windowed high-rise fills the wedge of space between the walls. The palette is soft and sun-bleached throughout.
This is one of Glen's downtown Los Angeles studies, where ordinary buildings are reframed as arrangements of color and line, recalling the pop-influenced minimalism of Ruscha and Hockney.
A study in pastel color and geometry, where the city is reduced to intersecting planes.
Awards and Recognition
Glen Wilbert's work has earned national recognition, including First Place at the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards, multiple Gold Medals at the reFocus Awards, and selection for more than thirty juried exhibitions across the United States.
Details
• Framed canvas print, pine wood frame with a floating-frame effect
• Frame thickness: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
• Canvas weight: approximately 344 g/m2
• White frame with a white inner border around the canvas
• Open back, rubber corner pads, hanging hardware attached
• Printed and framed in the USA
In "Downtown LA 1," Glen Wilbert photographs the intersecting walls of buildings in downtown Los Angeles, framing a lavender upper wall, a deep purple beam, and a coral lower wall that meet at sharp diagonals, with a palm and a glass tower visible through the gap.
The composition is built almost entirely from flat planes of color and angle: the textured lilac stucco above, the diagonal purple band cutting across the center, and the orange wall rising from below. Glen pointed the camera up and across so the architecture breaks into clean geometric shapes, with a small protruding light fixture and the fronds of a palm tree the only curved elements. A pale, windowed high-rise fills the wedge of space between the walls. The palette is soft and sun-bleached throughout.
This is one of Glen's downtown Los Angeles studies, where ordinary buildings are reframed as arrangements of color and line, recalling the pop-influenced minimalism of Ruscha and Hockney.
A study in pastel color and geometry, where the city is reduced to intersecting planes.
Awards and Recognition
Glen Wilbert's work has earned national recognition, including First Place at the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards, multiple Gold Medals at the reFocus Awards, and selection for more than thirty juried exhibitions across the United States.
Details
• Framed canvas print, pine wood frame with a floating-frame effect
• Frame thickness: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
• Canvas weight: approximately 344 g/m2
• White frame with a white inner border around the canvas
• Open back, rubber corner pads, hanging hardware attached
• Printed and framed in the USA
