Alex Prager "Week-End"

Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Through her constructed narratives and dramatic portraits, Prager explores a range of female types from vulnerable to powerful, from tragic to tender and from coolly detached to literally playing with fire. As described by L.A. Times writer Jessica Gelt, “Alex Prager’s is a vision of womanhood on the edge: On the edge of beauty, of breakdown, of lust, of listlessness.” Prager’s photographs are inspired by and set in her native city of Los Angeles, a place the artist describes as “A strange picture of perfection…with a sense of unease under the surface of all this beauty and promise.” With wigs, makeup and retro costumes meticulously planned, Prager casts and directs her friends in the role of the protagonist, most often a solitary figure absorbed in a personal drama. Cinematic and darkly playful, Prager’s photographs suggest a narrative occurring just outside the frame. But like fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, a master of the photographic mise-en-scène, Prager constructs more than a pretty picture, often infusing her narrative with a dark sense of foreboding.

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from January 14, 2010 to February 20, 2010

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Alex Prager

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