![Vanessa Prager [detail] Still Life , 2020 Oil on canvas, 84 x 60 in (213.4 x 152.4 cm) ©Vanessa Prager Photo by Robert Wedemeyer (Courtesy Diane Rosenstein Gallery)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/544cb720e4b0f3ba72ee8a78/1614588195788-1ZA0HM2RI14TZ40DXZG8/2_VPR118_Vanessa+Prager_Still+Life_2020_Oil+on+canvas_84+x+60+in_Diane+Rosenstein+Gallery_detail2.jpg)
Vanessa Prager’s recently completed series of oil paintings, Static, continues her exploration of sculptural impasto techniques and revisits 19th-century post-Impressionism in the 21st century. Prager’s new paintings pack a sensory and emotional impact, redefining perception in a high-def world. Her impasto pieces resist the quick take and allow us to discover the hidden treasure of the work itself; in these paintings, more is more. In this time of pandemic, when screens dominate as a means to work, play, connect and exist, Prager is the analog compass directing us back to the tangible. With big, heavy, drippy canvases and what can only be referred to as extreme painting, Prager rejects artificial crispness and reminds us how an abstract work can help us locate feelings so precisely.
Static is on view through April 10 @ Diane Rosenstein Gallery 831 N Highland Avenue, Los Angeles
