Sascha Braunig
{{Short description|Canadian painter}}
Sascha Braunig (born 1983) is a Canadian painter. She is best known for her hyperrealist and surrealist{{cite web |title=The New Surrealism: Contemporary Women Artists Against Alternative Facts |url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/the-new-surrealism-contemporary-women-artists-against-alternative-facts |website=Artspace}}{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=9 April 2015 |title=Sascha Braunig |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/arts/design/sascha-braunig.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413034356/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/arts/design/sascha-braunig.html |archive-date=13 April 2019 |access-date=August 29, 2023 |publisher= |via=New York Times}} paintings of lay figures.
Life and education
Braunig was born in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia and lives and works in Portland, Maine.{{cite web|last=Spavento|first=Elizabeth|title=Extra Spectral|url=https://space538.org/exhibition/extra-spectral/|access-date=23 August 2020|website=Space 538}}
In 2005, Braunig received a BFA in painting and photography from The Cooper Union.{{Cite web |last=Lin |first=Sabrina |date=November 2, 2018 |title=Challenging confines of the frame with Sascha Braunig |url=https://bowdoinorient.com/2018/11/02/sascha-braunig/ |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=The Bowdoin Orient}} 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. 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.{{Cite web |last=Miotek |first=Haley |date=September 21, 2016 |title=Sascha Braunig Makes Uncanny Art for an Artificial World |url=https://canadianart.ca/features/sascha-braunig-this-world-is-totally-artificial/ |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=CanadianArt}}{{Cite web |last=Yerebakan |first=Osman Can |date=April 2022 |title=Sascha Braunig: Lay Figure |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/04/artseen/Sascha-Braunigs-Lay-Figure |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=The Brooklyn Rail}}
Braunig has received two MacDowell fellowships, in 2013 and 2023, where she worked in Peterborough, New Hampshire.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Sascha Braunig CV |url=http://ghebaly.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ghebaly_Braunig_CV.pdf |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=Francois Ghebaly}}{{Cite web |title=Visual Art & Painting: Sascha Braunig |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/sascha-braunig-1 |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=Macdowell}}
In 2015 she took part in the New Museum triennial exhibition titled Surround Audience.{{cite web|url=https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/sascha-braunig/|title=Sascha Braunig|first=David|last=Ebony|date=26 May 2017|publisher=|access-date=13 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413034358/https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/sascha-braunig/|archive-date=13 April 2019|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Schwabsky |first=Barry |date=June 2015 |title=Sascha Braunig, Foxy Production |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201506/sascha-braunig-52377 |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=ArtForum}} She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3622|title=Sascha Braunig: Shivers|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424152637/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3622|archive-date=2019-04-24|url-status=live}} and at Norway's Kunsthall Stavanger.{{cite web|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/artist-sascha-braunig-kunstall-stavanger-norway|title=Artist Sascha Braunig Will Mess With Your Head|first=Diane|last=Solway|website=W Magazine|access-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413035419/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/artist-sascha-braunig-kunstall-stavanger-norway|archive-date=2019-04-13|url-status=live}} Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, among others.{{cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/116276/|title=Troll - Sascha BRAUNIG - NGV - View Work|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413034402/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/116276/|archive-date=2019-04-13|url-status=live}}
Her inspirations range from contemporary film directors like David Cronenberg to the Flemish painters of the Northern Renaissance, such as Jan van Eyck.{{Cite web |last=Gilbert |first=Aaron |date=April 22, 2011 |title=Sascha Braunig |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sascha-braunig/ |access-date=August 29, 2023 |website=BOMB Magazine}}
Braunig was included in the 2014 Thames and Hudson book 100 Painters of Tomorrow.{{cite web |title=A New Book Heralds the Future of Painting |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/100-painters-of-tomorrow-book-article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414014946/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/100-painters-of-tomorrow-book-article |archive-date=2019-04-14 |access-date=2019-04-14 |website=Architectural Digest}}
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Category:21st-century Canadian women artists
Category:21st-century Canadian painters
Category:Artists from British Columbia
Category:People from the Regional District of Nanaimo
Category:Artists from Portland, Oregon
Category:Yale School of Art alumni
Category:MacDowell Colony fellows
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