Piece description from the artist
This is a nice big abstract painting I made in 2020. I was really pushing my pandemic basement studio to its limits. This is pretty much as big as a painting can get and still make it up the stairs and out the door. My son was still baby and I had him in one of those harnesses that lets you wear the baby as you go around doing other things, strapped right there to the front of me while I'm going around making these weird marks on the canvas.
I painted this while it was on raw, un-stretched canvas. Basically I just unrolled a bunch of canvas over a cluster of three IKEA desks pushed up against each other and went to town on it. After the paint had all been applied to the canvas, I built a stretcher and stretched the canvas over it. So you can imagine me there, bending over the thing with an infant gazing out from in front of my chest. There is probably some drool in there, too.
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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