Piece description from the artist
This is an abstract painting on un-primed (raw) canvas in acrylic, spray dye, and Sharpie marker. I made it while I was an artist in residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in December of 2019. The painting was wrapped around heavy duty gallery depth (1.5”) stretcher bars after it had dried, such that elements of the composition wrap around the sides of the final piece (see detail images).
The space within this painting draws the viewer in, gives the mind a place to think, and invites the discovery of unexpected connections and the contemplation of other ways the world might work.
The little bits of writing around the edges of the painting read "not much thriller action," "the impulse to capture everything," and "also this week." which were probably taken from an audiobook rendition of one of Terence McKenna's books on the psychedelic experience.
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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