Alex Prager's new
exhibition Face in the Crowd, showcases large - scale color photographs of elaborately - staged crowd scenes and a film by the same name that explore the notion of the individual within the masses, the boundary between public and private space and the psychological complexities of human interaction.
Not exact matches
He also participated
in an important 1966 group
exhibition in London at the legendary Robert Fraser Gallery, whose other artists included Richard Hamilton, Bruce Conner and Peter Blake — who put Berman's
face among the notable
crowd in his cover for the Beatles» Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Group
exhibitions include; «Inventory, Vol.5: Acquisitions from 1992 to 1996», FRAC Haute - Normandie, Rouen, France (2015); «The Art of the Present», Helga de Alevear Collection, Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain (2013); «Je t «aime... moi non plus», Musée des Beaux - Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France (2013); «Unlimited Bodies», Palais Diena, Paris, France (2012); «Twenty Years of Presence», MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2011); «Idea and Object», Galerie Thaddaeus Roapc, Salzburg, Austria (2010); «Securities», DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, Belgium (2009); «Listen Darling The World Is Yours», Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon, Portugal (2008); «Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg», Salzburg, Austria (2006); «
Faces in the
Crowd», Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (2005) and «Albright Knox art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (2004).
Alex Prager's three films
Face in the
Crowd, La Petite Mort, and Despair are to be screened during SOLUNA's Opening Performance on 6 May, with their scores performed live by an orchestra; the following day sees the opening of Prager's solo
exhibition of three video installations and a new body of photographs (
in their USA debut) at the Goss - Michael Foundation.
During one of the long installation days leading up to an
exhibition (Alex Prager:
Face in the
Crowd), I took a moment to sit down
in the gallery and found myself blending right
in to Prager's «
Crowd # 1: Stan Douglas» as it waited patiently to be hung.
She is the author of many books including Arte Povera (1999, Phaidon Press) and has curated important
exhibitions, including
Faces in the
Crowd (2005), William Kentridge (2004), Pierre Huyghe (2004), Franz Kline (2004), The Moderns (2003), Animations (2001), Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works including collaborations with George Bures Miller (2001), Around 1984: A Look at Art
in the Eighties (2000), and Greater New York (2000).
The photographer Alex Prager's new solo
exhibition, «A
Face in the
Crowd,» opened at the Chelsea and Lower East Side galleries of Lehmann Maupin last night.
With that
crowd scene you can really see those vertical strokes, those vertical abstract strokes that are making up
faces and bodies and signs
in that
crowd and as you turn the corner [
in the
exhibition] you see the flower paintings.
Disparate
faces in the
crowd — those of the Dalai Lama, Anne Frank, and LeBron James among them — peered out from the more than 140 paintings dating from the late»90s to the present that filled the walls of «My American Dream,» the first solo museum
exhibition of Los Angeles — based artist Keith Mayerson.
About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and - ink drawings of erotic subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention
in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions of canine and feline subjects have been a
crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped
in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny» paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her
face is represented as a mop of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim
in a 2016 solo
exhibition at the prestigious venue White Columns, surprise and enchant.