Vanessa Prager is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Perception, perspective and information flow are all central themes to her work, which became more widely recognized after her exhibition, Dreamers—a series of "imagined" portraits which cross the border between the figurative and the abstract—opened and sold out completely, in Spring 2015.
The Huffington Post[2] described the works as "densely layered paintings, with pigment applied so thickly it forms its own topography", elaborating that, "various strokes of color—a ribbon of white like a squirt of toothpaste, a sharp sliver of green like a fish darting by—come together to form different visual narratives."
In 2015, W Magazine[3] described Prager's paintings "sculptural" and that "nameless characters are barely visible up-close, but at distance they seem rise out of frantic ether like ghosts."
[4][5] Currently Vanessa Prager is represented by Richard Heller, Los Angeles and The Hole, NYC.