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Blake Brasher
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Artist, engineer, and father of two little boys. Mostly posting about art.
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I have a show opening this week at Chase Young Gallery in Boston! Come to the reception this Friday 6-8pm!
March 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Westford MA Wholefoods also! But don’t worry, once we get rid of all those health and safety regulations we’ll get those shelves filled right back up.
Empty grocery store shelves in the eggs section.
February 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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"Just a Pair of Hats"

40 x 30 inches
acrylic, collage, and marker on wood panel
2024

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #ContemporaryArt #ArtisticExpression #ColorfulArt #ModernArt #ArtGallery #ArtCollector #FineArt #ArtWorld #ExpressiveArt #VisualArt #OriginalArtwork #AbstractExpressionism
April 7, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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"What We Wish We Had Made Time For"
40 x 30
Acrylic, collage, and marker on panel
2023
April 3, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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“I Squeezed Some Lemons”

40 x 30 inches.
acrylic, collage, and marker on wood panel.

2024

Now available on Singulart:

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In this vibrant dance of color and form, I've melded acrylic and collage to craft a symphony of abstract expression. The playful yellow dabs form a pattern of growth evoking a zest for life, which juxtaposed over intricate patterns of black and silver that hint at life's complexities. It's a visual exploration of joy layered over chaos; a reminder to embrace the spontaneous. The painting incorporates collaged elements including illustrations and text cut out of a Richard Scarry children's storybook, Star Trek trading cards from the 1990's that I bought as a teenager, and micro-SD to SD card adapters with their little gold fingers. The little hearts are drawn on post-it notes and then cut out and pasted on. It's a swirling vortex of nostalgia and influences and going concerns. Each brushstroke and splash of paint carries my heartfelt energy.
March 24, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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"The One With J. L. Pipes"


60 x 48 inches
acrylic, collage, and marker on wood panel.

Now available on Saatchi Art:

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March 16, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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"Cotton Candy Mud Slide"

60 x 36 inces
acrylic, ink, and holographic glitter on canvas

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Title: "Cotton Candy Mud Slide" 
60 x 36" acrylic, ink, and holographic glitter on canvas. 2014 This is a painting in acrylic and ink with holographic glitter on canvas. This painting was made on a pre-stretched Blick "Premier" canvas. The sides have been painted pink and paint is dripping over the sides from the surface composition in places (see detail images). This is a wild composition and is quite vertical. It's a bit of a psychedelic rollercoaster. The name "Cotton Candy Mudslide" comes from the combination of the candy coated color scheme and the way the whole thing seems to be coming at you all at once. Once you're in the composition, though, there are many paths your eyes can take that lead you through the piece's layered complexity. This is one you will be finding new little favorite spots in for years.
March 8, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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Just shared some updates and new work over on my blog: www.blakebrasher.org/blog/studio-update-20240211
The back of my new painting, "The Busy Day." It is a small, 16 x 12 inch painting on a wood panel. There are several pieces of electronics mounted to the back of the painting including a Raspberry Pi, a camera, a motor controller, a stepper motor, and power supplies.
February 12, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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“Another Bend Around the Bend"

48 x 36 inches 

acrylic, Sharpie, and spray-dye on canvas

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Title: "Another Bend Around the Bend" 48 x 36 inches 
acrylic, Sharpie, and spray-dye on canvas 2019 This is a very lovely painting done in acrylic, acrylic medium, and Sharpie marker on un-primed canvas. I work on the canvas on a workbench before it is stretched, with various tools and techniques. The canvas is stretched after it has fully dried, and so the composition extends around the edges.
February 11, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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“Creature Comforts From Within”

48 x 36 inches
acrylic, marker, and dye on canvas

Now available on Singulart:

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An abstract paining with yellows, grays, and blues with some streaks of red in the bottom right corner Title: "Creature Comforts From Within" 48 x 36 inches
acrylic, marker, and dye on canvas
2019
February 9, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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“Extras and Oh Nos”

48 x 36 inches
acrylic, marker, and spray dye on canvas
now available on Saatchi Art

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Title: "Extras and Oh Nos" 48 x 36 inches
acrylic, marker, and spray dye on canvas. 2019 a layered composition with patterns and poured paint with bright pinks and yellows against dark blacks and whites
February 5, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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“Feeling Like You've Sat Down at the Wrong Meeting”
50 x 36" acrylic, Sharpie, collage, and paint marker on canvas
2018

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Title: "Feeling Like You've Sat Down at the Wrong Meeting" 50 x 36" acrylic, Sharpie, collage, and paint marker on canvas 2018 An abstract painting with bright colors under dark poured paint with collaged elements like post-it notes, inventory tags, and promotional graphics from art supply companies
February 2, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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My painting, “Directions for Making Birthday Party Invitation" has been accepted to the Cambridge Art Association's Members Prize Show.

February 27 - April 27 at CAA @ University Place in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA)

Reception on Thursday, February 29, 6-8pm

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Title: Directions for Making Birthday Party Invitations 60 x 48 Acrylic, collage, and marker on canvas 2023
February 1, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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“Find Out and Find In” 48 x 36 inches. Acrylic and marker on canvas. 2019

Now available on Saatchi Art:

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An abstract painting with lots of layers and colors. Possibly the best painting you’ve seen. You should probably buy it.
January 26, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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“The Moment You Think You've Gotten Where You Are Going” 48 x 36 inches. Acrylic and marker on canvas. 2019.
Now available on Singulart:

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A monochromatic painting in acrylic with elements drawn in marker on raw, unprimed canvas
January 20, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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“Seventy-Nine Moons and Counting” 48 x 36" acrylic, Sharpie, and spray-dye on canvas. 2019
Now available on Saatchi Art, original and prints:

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An abstract painting composed largely of warm and hot reds, oranges, and yellows with pops of bright turquoise, black, and white.
January 19, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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"Directions for Making Birthday Party Invitations" 60 x 48 inches, Acrylic collage marker on canvas
2023

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A large abstract painting with lots of blue and yellow. It features broad brushstrokes, squiggly lines, poured paint, and collaged elements including cut out illustrations and negative space from a children's fairy tale book and old business cards. detail image featuring painted star and storybook bits with drawn pattern in the background and broad brushstroke and drips on top detail featuring a collaged in title card from a previous show and a children's book kitten detail featuring subtle washes and dripping, streaking paint
January 13, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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This is the kind of shit that really makes cleaning my office so time consuming
December 10, 2023 at 5:00 AM
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just updated photos for "That Question is Funny Because it has Changed," 34 x 26 inches, acrylic and marker on cavas. 2018. These new photos look so much better.

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#art #abstractart #painting #abstractpainting #nonobjective #nonobjectiveart #nonobjectivepainting
The new photo the old photo
December 1, 2023 at 5:26 AM
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I wrote a blog post! www.blakebrasher.org/blog/week-in-review-11122023
An abstract painting titled "Slow Dive" painted by Blake Brasher in 2012. It features a lot of red and yellow color fields as well as black and white drips. The painting is 48 inches tall and 72 inches wide and was painted with acrylic paint on canvas.
November 13, 2023 at 6:45 AM
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Just updated photos for “Through All Beings in All Dimensions," a very special painting I made in 2019 during a residency at the Studios at Mass MoCA just a handful of months before my first child was born

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#painting #abstractpainting #art #abstractart
The whole painting, hanging on a wall with the edges exposed wall showing behind. acrylic pouring medium with black and white paint poured in rings, shades of grey swirled around them. Bright pinks, yellows, and blues in the background with some doodled arrows, X's and O's. some text transcribed from the audiobook version of "Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way," which I was listening to in the studio, with bright yellows and pinks behind and honeycomb pattern to the right A flower petal starburst in blue in the background with smears of black and grey paint over.
November 12, 2023 at 4:20 AM
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Just updated photos for “Why You're Doing What You're Doing," 38 x 30" acrylic and marker on unprimed canvas. 2017. This looks so bright and fresh in the new images!

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Full frame picture of the painting hung on a wall with the wall and shadows exposed behind the painting. detail image of the painting from just to the upper left of the center of the painting. Features black-in-white concentric circles in gloss poured medium, silver streaks outlined in black marker, and little doodles of Space Octopus, a Swimming Marm, and two cellular forms. black and white dripped circles in poured medium with silver, black, and white surrounding. white and magenta paint dripped into poured medium. Canvas texture is prominent in the background.
November 11, 2023 at 5:29 AM