Piece description from the artist
Chaotic, irreverent, and richly textured, I Just Want to Eat Food is a maximalist burst of visual noise and embedded symbols. Saturated pinks, reds, and yellows collide with aluminum-like metallics and slashes of black and white, creating a tension between immediacy and accumulation. The composition feels like a moment of sensory overload—a hunger not just for nourishment, but for sensation, expression, catharsis.
The painting belongs to the artist’s Epiphenomenal Qualia series and shares that body of work’s interest in overflowing compositions and compulsive mark-making. But it also stands apart with its rawness and title—a plaintive, almost childlike declaration that invites both humor and empathy. Repeated Xs, googly eyes, cartoonish outlines, and scribbled glyphs hint at internal states made external and unfiltered.
Blake Brasher is a visual artist working primarily in mixed media painting. His colorful abstractions are reflections on the nature of reality and what it is like to be a thinking being in a universe that is at once beautiful and terrifying. He grew up in Alaska, and has also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts in 1997. He received his BS in Art and Design from MIT in 2003 and his MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge MA in 2022. He has been exhibiting his work publicly since 2008. His work is internationally collected, and he has participated in artist residency programs in Italy, Romania, France, New York, and Massachusetts. He currently lives in Harvard, MA with his fiancée and their two little boys and maintains a studio in beautiful downtown Lowell, MA.
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