Alex Prager, Orchestra Center (Stage) (2016), via Lehman Maupin

Photographer Alex Prager has returned to Lehmann Maupin’s New York exhibition space at 201 Chrystie Street this month for an exhibition of new photographic works, executed in conjunction with the production for Prager’s new film piece, La Grande Sortie.  Continuing the artist’s investigations between the lines of performer and viewer, production and reception, her new works dwell on the act of public performance, and the intersecting emotions of anxiety, desire and frustration as they play out in her tightly choreographed and constructed scenes.

Alex Prager, La Grande Sortie (Installation View), via Lehman Maupin

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Alex Prager, Crowd # 9 (Sunset), Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin

With a double show at Lehmann Maupin’s New York galleries, entitled Face in the Crowd, and another exhibition in Corcoran’s DC gallery, photographer Alex Prager has emerged from Los Angeles to take up major art world real estate this winter. Prager’s work is instantly recognizable, a savvy blend of mid-century nostalgia repackaged for our current moment, and it seems the rest of the fashion and art world have finally caught up with her. (more…)

Video artist and photographer Alex Prager has won an Emmy for news and documentary for directing the mini-scenes for The New York Times Magazine’s feature, “Touch of Evil”.  The print version was edited by Hugo Lindgren and Adam Sternbergh, in consultation with A.O. Scott, who also wrote the introduction. Prager is self-taught, often referencing pulp fiction masters and fashion photography in her work. (more…)

Alex Prager, 4:29pm Van Nuys (2012)

Los Angeles based artist Alex Prager is showing internationally for the second time in her rapid rise, showing Compulsion simultaneously at Yancey Richardson in New York, M+B in Los Angeles, and Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London. Paired with a short film titled La Petit Mort (French for ‘the little death’—a euphemism for sexual orgasm) the exhibition is both a substantiation and a deviation of her previous work. Featuring scenes of film noir, tense, and poised-to-erupt, the Hitchcockian damsel in distress and Prager’s unmistakable retro touch are all on view.

Alex Prager, La Petit Mort (2012), film still

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