The culmination of a trilogy that began with Polyester and The Big Valley, Alex Prager’s Week-End began as organically as her other series. Inspired by the high drama of classic movies—which, despite their theatricality, touch upon genuine emotions of alienation, fear, anger, longing, and lust—Prager’s images seem at first to be all exquisite surface. However the girls of this series— named “Barbara”, “Jane”, “Lois” and other such conventional and slightly old-fashioned monikers— conceal pain beneath their lipstick-lined smiles and dead eyes. Prager’s work exudes an underlying sense of the eerie monotony and unease that can permeate beneath the surface of beauty and the promise of happiness. Week-End runs from January 30th through March 6th, 2010 at Hollywood’s M+B.

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Tags: Alex Prager, art, Exhibit, Photography