Alex Prager - New Now New York Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles, M+B Gallery, Week-end, January 30 - March 6, 2010, p. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Alex Prager

    American • 1979

    Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self-taught photographer and film-maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters. The hyperreal worlds she creates are packed with human melodrama, like the retro 'damsel in distress' character that regularly makes appearances in Prager's brightly colored and dramatically lit scenes.

    With influences ranging from David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, and Gregory Crewdson, Prager references the vivid aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Pairing photographs alongside her films as part of her practice, Prager presents an eerie, alternative world where more questions are asked than answered. 

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

170

Anne

signed, titled, numbered and dated ""Anne" 5/5 A Prager 2009" on a label affixed to the reverse
chromogenic print
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number 5 from an edition of 5.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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New Now

New York Auction 26 September 2018