drive me crazy
wasserman projects - Detroit
june 27 - aug 15 2026
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The works presented at Wasserman Projects reflect a lifelong relationship with movies, not simply as entertainment, but as an emotional archive through which memory and meaning are continuously reshaped.
Spector uses cinematic source material as a framework to explore themes of absence, longing, reinvention, humor, family, and loss. While acknowledging the history, content, and affect of films, the work is created through a queer perspective, capturing moments to manipulate through cropping, assemblage, redaction, and negative space. This juxtaposition strips the imagery of its original narrative to tell a deeply personal story. Spector’s palette is cinema—he captures moments from early Hollywood, which focus on the allure of affluence and high society culture, to hold a mirror up to his life experiences.
Photography by PD Rearick. Courtesy of Wasserman Projects Instagram: @pdrearick @wassermanprojectsSpector explores memory, identity, and emotional reconstruction through the visual language of cinema. In 2008, Spector presented his first solo exhibition, Labels, at Guy Hepner Gallery in Los Angeles, where he first began experimenting with appropriation and image deconstruction. After stepping away from the fine art world for many years while continuing his career in motion picture marketing, he returned with a new body of work that transforms vintage film stills, title sequences, subtitles, and found cinematic fragments into original visual compositions.