Sascha Braunig

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Sascha Braunig (born 1983) is a Canadian painter. She is best known for her hyperrealist [1] and surrealist [2] [3] paintings of lay figures.

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Life and education

Braunig was born in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia and lives and works in Portland, Maine. [4]

In 2005, Braunig received a BFA in painting and photography from The Cooper Union. [5] She went on to graduate with her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art in 2008.

Work

While at Yale School of Art, Braunig began experimenting with video. [5] She frequently uses lighting effects and simple materials such as clay or styrofoam to create three-dimensional models or masks, on which she bases the figures in her paintings. [6] [3] [7]

Braunig has received two MacDowell fellowships, in 2013 and 2023, where she worked in Peterborough, New Hampshire. [8] [9]

In 2015 she took part in the New Museum triennial exhibition titled Surround Audience. [1] [3] [10] She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York [11] and at Norway's Kunsthall Stavanger. [12] Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, among others. [13]

Her inspirations range from contemporary film directors like David Cronenberg to the Flemish painters of the Northern Renaissance, such as Jan van Eyck. [6] [14]

Braunig was included in the 2014 Thames and Hudson book 100 Painters of Tomorrow. [15]

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  6. 1 2 Miotek, Haley (September 21, 2016). "Sascha Braunig Makes Uncanny Art for an Artificial World". CanadianArt. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  7. ↑ Yerebakan, Osman Can (April 2022). "Sascha Braunig: Lay Figure". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Sascha Braunig CV" (PDF). Francois Ghebaly. 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Visual Art & Painting: Sascha Braunig". Macdowell. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  10. ↑ Schwabsky, Barry (June 2015). "Sascha Braunig, Foxy Production". ArtForum. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Sascha Braunig: Shivers". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  12. ↑ Solway, Diane. "Artist Sascha Braunig Will Mess With Your Head". W Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-04-13. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
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  15. ↑ "A New Book Heralds the Future of Painting". Architectural Digest. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-04-14.


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