NEW YORK, USA – By far the largest work of the photographer Alex Prager is on display in both Lehmann Maupin galleries in New York. The large-scale photographs, taken in one of the Los Angeles soundstage, exlore the disconnection between individuals in society.
The two-part exhibition features large-scale photographs of wittely staged crowd scenes at 201 Chrystie Street and an mesmerizing three-channel video installation at 540 West 26th Street.
For each photograph, Prager directed hundreds of actors on constructed sets to create portraits of large crowds at airport terminals, lobbies, beaches, movie theaters and other public spaces. The artist chose the characters, clothing, hairstyles and poses to immitate a range of time periods from mid-century to the present and recall cultural references drawn from street photography and classic Hollywood cinema.
Prager’s work is represented in the collections of major museums including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alex Prager was born in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, where she continues to live and work.
January 9 – February 22, 2014
201 Chrystie Street & 540 West 26th Street, New York