This is the first volume on the paintings of acclaimed Canadian-born, Portland-based painter Sascha Braunig (born 1983), whose brightly rendered, optically contorted bodies and heads seem to turn on themselves and on their settings.
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 128 pgs / 67 color. | 9/26/2017 | Not available $30.00
Published by Foxy Production. Text by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.
In dreamlike scenes, where repetition and patterning are foregrounded, Braunig’s figures emit an extrasensory glow: flaring with reflected color, they are iridescent beings whose very skin seems to be a source of psychic power.
On the occasion of her 2016–17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life … While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems threatened by forces beyond our control.
PUBLISHER Foxy Production
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 128 pgs / 67 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/26/2017 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 140
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780692842478TRADE List Price: $30.00 CAD $40.00 GBP £27.00
