Gary Beydler

Biography

Gary Beydler was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944 and attended the UC Irvine MFA program in the early 1970s. Throughout his career, Beydler authored poetic meditations on Los Angeles and the surrounding landscape. In concert with the contemporary interest in the cinematic apparatus, Beydler's documents of the desert, highway, and sea also function as self-portraits and regimented dissections of cinematic production. In May of 1977, David E. James published an article on four of Beydler's films in NEW Magazine, a publication of Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. Beginning in 2005, the public…