{"id":1502,"date":"2016-02-17T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/work-of-ny-theatre-designer-on-display\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:24:51","slug":"work-of-ny-theatre-designer-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/work-of-ny-theatre-designer-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of NY theatre designer on display"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trojan Helmet by Wexler 1973. Copyright Peter Wexler. All Rights Reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

The work of Peter Wexler, renowned New York theatre designer, producer, painter, sculptor and photographer, will be on display Aug. 26\u2013Oct. 5 in the Thompson Gallery of Furman University\u2019s Roe Art Building.<\/p>\n

The Thompson Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, \u201cCreating a Digital Museum: The Art and Theatre Work of Peter Wexler,\u201d is free and open to the public.\u00a0 It is funded in part by the Duke Endowment.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is the product of an ambitious large-scale project involving the digitization of Wexler\u2019s professional art and design work by the Digital Collections Center of Furman\u2019s James B. Duke Library. The digitization project is made possible through a donation from Furman University trustee Todd Ruppert and his wife, Karen.<\/p>\n

The exhibition centers around Wexler\u2019s work on the grand opera \u201cLes Troyens\u201d (\u201cThe Trojans\u201d) by Hector Berlioz and performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1973. The opera depicts the ill-fated love affair between Aeneas and Dido and how the fall of Troy portended the birth of Rome.<\/p>\n

Wexler assisted with the production concepts for \u201cLes Troyens\u201d and was responsible for set design, costume design, special effects, and film direction. As such, the exhibit materials include his costume design sketches, 3-D scale models of the set pieces, paint elevations, a Trojan helmet, and sculpture inspired by \u201cLes Troyens.\u201d These physical pieces will be shown along with their digital counterparts displayed on a large flat-panel TV.<\/p>\n

For more information about the exhibition, contact the Furman University Department of Art at 864-294-2074.<\/p>\n

About the Peter Wexler Digital Museum at Furman University<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Peter Wexler Digital Museum at Furman University” is an ongoing digital project led by the Furman University James B. Duke Library, and funded by a donation from Furman University trustee Todd Ruppert and his wife, Karen.<\/p>\n

Rick Jones, manager of the library\u2019s Digital Collections Center, is leading a team of students who are photographing, scanning and editing more than 6,000 pieces of Wexler’s art spanning more than 50 years. The materials are related to opera, theatre and concerts developed for clients such as the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Boston Pops. Among the items in Wexler\u2019s collection are 3-D scale models of sets, costume design sketches, paint elevations, sculptures, photographs, 35mm slides, drawings, paintings, posters, documents and other ancillary materials.<\/p>\n

Wexler loaned these items from his New York studio to the Digital Collections Center which is converting materials to digital format using high-quality digital cameras and flatbed scanners. Once complete, the digitized items will be paired with rich descriptions and made accessible through a truly unique and interactive website. The finished Peter Wexler Digital Museum will simulate the feeling of strolling through an art gallery in an online environment, and will provide the Furman community and general public a valuable resource for research, instruction and learning. The Peter Wexler Digital Museum is expected to be fully accessible by September 2014.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Peter Wexler Digital Museum, contact Christy Allen, Assistant Director for Discovery Services, Furman University Libraries, 864-294-2258 or christy.allen@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The work of Peter Wexler, renowned New York theatre designer, producer, painter, sculptor and photographer, will be on display Aug. 26\u2013Oct. 5 in the Thompson Gallery of Furman University\u2019s Roe Art Building. The exhibition, \u201cCreating a Digital Museum: The Art and Theatre Work of Peter Wexler,\u201d is free and open to the public.\u00a0 It is funded in part by the Duke Endowment. The exhibit is the product of an ambitious large-scale project involving the digitization of Wexler\u2019s professional art and design work by the Digital Collections Center of Furman\u2019s James B. Duke Library. The digitization project is made possible through a donation from Furman University trustee Todd Ruppert and his wife, Karen. The exhibition centers around Wexler\u2019s work on the grand opera \u201cLes Troyens\u201d (\u201cThe Trojans\u201d) by Hector Berlioz and performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}