IMPULSE Forum x Petzel
• Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 6pm
• Petzel Gallery, New York
A round-table participatory discussion program hosted by IMPULSE Magazine, in conversation with an exhibition of works by Troy Brauntuch and moderated by Józefina Chetko.
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About the Exhibition
Troy Brauntch debuts several new paintings made with oil paint including sensitive portraits of the artist’s dog, together with museological studies of display cases. Over the last few years Brauntuch has transitioned his studio practice to the use of oil paint, a medium that permits the seamless blending of forms, the attainment of a refined somberness, and an extended working time conducive to precise adjustments. This new body of work will be presented alongside early experiments with photographic processes together with several large-format canvases that demonstrate his celebrated use of ink, pastel, conté stick, and raw pigment to create ghostly images that teeter between legibility and abstract gesture. Spanning almost fifty years of his career, the exhibition aims to underline a central tenet of Brauntuch's deconstructive approach to art-making. In various ways, these works challenge the belief that images can provide a stable, direct, or unproblematic link to reality, objective meaning, or a fixed historical event.
About Troy Brauntuch
Born in 1954 in New Jersey, Troy Brauntuch graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He currently divides his time between New York, NY and Austin, TX. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally for over fifty years.
Brauntuch exhibited in the seminal show Pictures at Artists Space in 1977 in New York, along with Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Philip Smith, and Sherrie Levine. His works are held in numerous private and public collections including the Pinault Foundation, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; The San Diego Contemporary Arts Museum, San Diego; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Brauntuch’s work was included in Day for Night, the 2006 Whitney Biennial in New York. In the summer of 2007, a survey exhibition of his work from 1990–2007 was exhibited at the Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble, France. In 2009, his work was included in The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2010, JRP/Ringier published a monograph book of works from 1975–2008. His work was also featured in Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany, which traveled to Kunsthaus Graz in Austria in 2020. A major essay on Brauntuch’s work was recently published in art critic and historian Alexander Bigman’s book, Pictures and the Past (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2024).