A CONVERSATION AND BOOK SIGNING: AMANDA FORTINI AND VANESSA PRAGER Saturday, June 22 at 3:00 pm A celebration will immediately follow the talk! DIANE ROSENSTEIN GALLERY 831 N Highland Ave Los Angeles 90038 This special event is free. RSVP please to jen@dianerosenstein.com. Amanda Fortini, a regular contributor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine and a columnist for County Highway, has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Believer, The Paris Review, California Sunday, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Elle, Slate, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Her essays have been widely anthologized, including in Best American Political Writing and Best American Travel Writing. She received the Rabkin Prize for art journalism (2020), and was a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Fortini divides her time between Livingston, Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada, and is writing a book of essays, Flamingo Road, about the latter. Vanessa Prager is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her elaborate impasto painting technique that present flowers, portraits, and figures rendered in thickly layered and sculptural surfaces. Prager’s abstract paintings explore themes of identity, self-reflection, and the human condition in the 21st century. She received recent solo shows, Portraits, (2023) and Static (2021) with Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles. Other solo presentations include those at Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin, DE and London, UK; The Hole, New York City, NY; Richard Heller, Santa Monica, CA; and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Prager's work was also included in The Flower Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA (2023); The Street and The Shop, curated by Michael Slenske, Venice, CA (2023); Go Figure!, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2019); Russian Doll, M+B, Los Angles (2015); The Blob, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (2015); and Seven Sisters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco (2013); among others. In May, 2024, a monograph, Vanessa Prager: Paintings 2020-2024, with an essay by Amanda Fortini, was published by Diane Rosenstein Gallery. Vanessa Prager lives and works in Glendale, California.