‘Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter’ opening reception afterparty

Toast the opening of Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter and years of collaboration between the PMA and SPACE. Active members of either organization are invited to honor longtime SPACE Studio artist Sascha Braunig with an evening of mingling and dancing with DJ MsWrecks. 

Tickets are free for SPACE and PMA members. Pay-what-you-decide donation tickets supporting SPACE Studios are greatly appreciated.

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Sascha Braunig’s paintings exist within a genealogy of feminist art where the body is posed as a problem—something to pull apart, to interrogate, to stretch beyond recognition.

For Braunig, embodiment and its limitations for expressing gender are of utmost concern. In the vein of such forebears as Christina Ramberg and Kiki Kogelnik, the body operates as a sign; one to which Braunig applies various pressures to fully understand its social significance. In her canvases, the viewer encounters skeletal torsos that have been compressed, pulled, and ripped apart, painted with the precision of European Old Masters. Braunig’s work draws on surrealist influences, exploring the female form to question traditional roles and expectations. Like Kogelnik, she examines how everyday symbols shape ideas of womanhood in daily life, turning familiar images into thought-provoking commentary.

MsWrecks wants you to dance. With sets that include trap, throwback hip hop, pop, dancehall, reggaeton, indie sleaze and more, her goal is to get you to throw some ass.