Tina Braegger: The Dream Relatives

Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present The Dream Relatives, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tina Braegger. The exhibition opens on November 4 and will remain on view through December 22 at 327 West 36th Street.
For nearly a decade, Tina Braegger has used the Grateful Dead “dancing bear” as a vessel for painterly innovations, questioning notions of authorship, originality and authenticity. In Braegger’s paintings, the capacity of this motif is pushed as repetition becomes a space of transmutation. In this new body of work, the bears clash amongst each other and transform into text bubbles and paint palettes. The tools and containers for language become characters in and of themselves—at times eclipsing the bear motif completely. Alongside the exhibition, a new collection of Bragger’s writing titled “Chess Poems” will be released and on view as a printed booklet.