Vanessa Prager - Weactivist

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With no formal education, LA-based artist Vanessa Prager has become widely exhibited - and praised - for her atmospheric, figurative oil paintings on linen, canvas or wood. Theatrical and bizarre, her youthful subjects take centre stage in these isolated performances, the lurid backgrounds fading into harsh shadows or a disconnective blur. Vegetation, candy and toys reoccur in her world as symbols, the artist having been a part of nearly thirty shows already in her young career.

/Vanessa Prager

Vanessa about herself:

Born in my grandmother's bedroom in '84, I was to be named Vincent if I was
a boy. Turned out to be the name of our pet boa constrictor instead,
and sometimes I definitely wondered about this alternate me....

During my childhood I drew the usual pictures of rainbows and houses and
people, but looking at it, it's all eerily two dimensional. They had a
similar feel to the way people viewed the world before Christopher
Columbus hit America, completely flat. I was 16 when I was given a
how-to book on perspective and it all clicked for me, I was to make
art. I haven't stopped since, and if you told me to, I swear I wouldn't
even know how.