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Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

“Driving through Los Angeles, you see all kinds of things out your window, and they go by so quickly,” Alex Prager told the New Yorker as she explained the bizarre scenarios and eccentric characters in her latest photos and video at Lehmann Maupin Gallery.  This towering, nine-foot-tall sculpture dominates the gallery and appears in an even larger version in Prager’s short film ‘Play the Wind,’ an homage to the unexpected and strange on the streets of Prager’s hometown.  (On view in Chelsea through Oct 26th).

Alex Prager, Big West, foam, plastic, fabric and aluminum on metal base, 112 x 50 x 23 inches, 2019.

Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Alex Prager has explained that living in LA, she doesn’t have a lot of experience with crowds.  Her latest body of photos and her film ‘Face in the Crowd,’ makes a break with the norm though as Prager directs actor Elizabeth Banks and hundreds of other actors on constructed sets as they play out scenes of crowd dynamics from the thrilling to the terrifying.  (At Chelsea’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery through Feb 22nd).  

Alex Prager, still from ‘Face in the Crowd’ at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, January, 2013.