Sascha Braunig / Canada

Canada born 1983, works in United States 2005–

Painted in luminous colours, the dreamlike scenes of Sascha Braunig’s works are informed by the legacies of Op art and Surrealism with their graphic lines and otherworldly figures. The paintings Monad, Saccades and Troll, all 2014, use the conventions of portraiture as a starting point for the creation of strange, humanoid figures the artist refers to as ‘Ur-characters’ or ‘blanks’. Herm 2, 2016, features flowing folds of pink and brown that loosely suggest the form of a human body. Braunig paints from observation of small models, which she fashions from clay, sometimes drapes with cloth and sequins and then illuminates with dramatically coloured lighting.

BIO

Braunig has held solo exhibitions at Foxy Production, New York, in 2011, 2013 and 2015; MoMA PS1, New York, in 2016; and, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, in 2017. In February 2015 she was included in Surround Audience, the New Museum Triennial curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin. In 2008 Braunig was awarded the Robert Schoelkopf Traveling Fellowship, and she has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center Residency Program in 2010 and the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 2013.