Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

Tuesday, March 28th: Sascha Braunig

Sascha Braunig (Born 1983, Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada) is an artist who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, and an MFA in painting from Yale University. Braunig’s works primarily manifest as paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Her illusory works combine vibrant colors and forms to create dream-like, hypnotic compositions. Repetition and patterning often merge the foreground with the background, where her subjects can float in and out of focus.

Braunig is a current resident at the Waltenas-Sharpe studios in DUMBO, Brooklyn. She is represented by Foxy Production in New York, and solo exhibitions include: Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (upcoming 2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2016-2017); Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (2016). Selected group exhibitions include: “Stranger,” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2016); “Surround Audience: 2015 New Museum Triennial,” New Museum, New York, NY (2015); “A Top Hat, A Monocle, and A Butterfly,” Etablissement d’en face projects, Brussels, Belgium; “Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: The Artistʼs Guide to the World,” Florence Griswold Museum, CT; and “Surreal Selves,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (all 2013).