Piece description from the artist
This is a painting I made during my artist residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA in December of 2019. I was intentionally referencing a painting I had made earlier in the year, "So Actually That Is Cool," which I had shown several times already and was one of the first paintings in what would go on to become my Pattern and Abstraction series.
It's not an exact copy by any means. The orientation is landscape instead of portrait, and it is larger. The color scheme is similar, but not exactly the same (more yellow, less turquoise). The composition in this one is also more symmetric. "So Actually That Is Cool" kind of zig-zags down the canvas while here the composition is sort of an oval inside a rectangle (trust me). It kind of worked. It's a bit more polished, which is both good and bad. It's still got that vibrancy. And this one, too, has gone one to be in several shows.
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 is an artist member at Bromfield Gallery in Boston and Gallery 263 in Cambridge. He currently lives in Harvard, MA, with his fiancé and their toddler.
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