Sarah Braman “You Are Everything”
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)
This event has ended.
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The Falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity”
- William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Mitchell-Innes & Nash presents YOU ARE EVERYTHING, an exhibition of new sculptures and panel paintings by Sarah Braman. The exhibition is Braman’s first solo exhibition in New York in five years.
Braman is known for her large-scale sculptures in which parts of scrapyard vehicles and old furniture are combined with translucent volumes of color and light. The artist’s distinctive color palette of rich pinks, blues and purples permeates the exhibition, from spray paint on found objects and hand-dyed fabric to the expansive colors of the glass forms.
For her most recent series, Braman uses scavenged objects from domestic life, such as discarded bunk bed, a truck cap, an old love seat, a wooden desk, as a starting point. Their visible wear-and-tear speaks to the passage of time and recalls the everyday struggles and joys to which these objects bore witness. Braman turns the utility of these objects on their head, destabilizing the notions of home and family.
In contrast, the glass forms to which these objects are attached appear otherworldly. Placed at unsettlingly off-kilter angles throughout the exhibition space, the works suggest the possibility of imminent collapse; they appear to be tumbling, untethering or unhinging. Or are they coming together, mating? Some of the sculptures have carpets or cushions that invite the viewer into the belly of the sculpture to lie down and look up, or to be swallowed up.
Sarah Braman (b. 1970, Tonawanda, NY) lives and works between New York, NY and Amherst, MA. Braman has exhibited in museums and institutions in the US and Europe. In 2013, Braman was the recipient of the Maud Morgan Prize, and in 2014 Braman’s solo exhibition Alive opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Her first European solo exhibition was on view in 2011 at MACRO in Rome, Italy. Braman has exhibited work at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI (2015); The Broadway Mall Association and the New York City Parks Department, NY (2015); Kunstforeningen G1 Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2013); The Zabludowicz Collection Inaugural Installation, Sarvisalo, Finland (2012); The Shape We’re In, The Zabludowicz Collection, New York, NY (2011); The De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, FL (2010); The Lisbon Biennial, Portugal (2010); Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (2005). She has had solo exhibitions in New York at Canada and Museum 52. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1998, and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1992.
Media
Schedule
from March 10, 2016 to April 16, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-03-10 from 18:00 to 20:00