Sascha Braunig
Sascha Braunig devotes her critical focus to the capaciousness and limitations of the feminine form under duress. Braunig’s figures teeter towards overextension—waists are pinched to extremity; appendages are restricted or decked in barbs; phantom silhouettes sinuously negotiate and adapt to the contours of their technicolor environments. Drawing on feminist artistic discourse, Braunig’s imaginaries engage the ways that gender performance and systems of power are replicated. Training, fitting, and reinforcement are recurring motifs in the severe and sometimes sinister crucibles which Braunig’s figures endure. Cast in vibrant complementary palettes and anchored through Braunig’s graphic, tensile formal vocabulary, her images recapitulate and usurp foundational codes of gendered visuality to create surreal and unequivocally emblematic scenes.
Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada) lives and works in Portland, Maine. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA in painting from Yale University. Braunig was awarded a residency from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2016, and a Macdowell Fellowship in 2013. Selected solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly, New York and Los Angeles, USA; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Magenta Plains, New York, USA; Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, USA; and MoMA PS1, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in institutional exhibitions including the Quebec City Biennial; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; and the New Museum Triennial, New York, USA.
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Sascha Braunig & Greg Parma Smith
September 14 - October 16, 2024 391 Grand St., New York -
Sascha Braunig
Poseuses November 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is proud to present Poseuses, a solo exhibition by Maine-based artist Sascha Braunig, opening in downtown Los Angeles on November 18th, 2023. Sascha Braunig’s paintings aim to warp,...Read more -
Sascha Braunig
Lay Figure March 16 - April 16, 2022 391 Grand St., New YorkFrançois Ghebaly and Magenta Plains are proud to present Lay Figure , a joint gallery exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Sascha Braunig. This is Braunig’s first...Read more
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Pick of the Week: Sascha Braunig
Estelle Araya, Artillery, December 6, 2023 -
Sascha Braunig
Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, July 19, 2022 -
Sascha Braunig: Lay Figure
Osman Can Yerebakan, The Brooklyn Rail, April 5, 2022 -
Sascha Braunig
David Ebony, Art in America, May 26, 2017 -
Sascha Braunig
David Geers, Frieze, March 28, 2017 -
A studio visit with Sascha Braunig
Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein, Two Coats of Paint, December 29, 2016 -
A Painter on the Entangled Relationship Between Figure and Frame
Samuel Jablon, Hyperallergic, May 14, 2016