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Blake Brasher
Always Wash Your Hands Before Cooking
acrylic, collage, and marker on wood panel
24″ x 18″ x 0.75″
2023
This painting incorporates collaged illustrations of characters liberated from a book of misogynistic, child abuse normalizing classic fairy tales. I became a father in early 2020, and re-engaging with the media of childhood and experiencing parenthood have made me think deeply about my own childhood and the experiences that have contributed to who I am today. This is a bit of an abstract mind-scape, a layered whirlwind of color, pattern, and collage. Nothing is very clear or obvious, but it seems to hold itself together, and we hope everything will work out alright.
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Blake Brasher
Across A Hundred Thousand Miles
pencil, ink, masking tape, collage, and acrylic on textured polypropylene
14″ x 11″
2023
My work is about challenging perspective and juxtaposing systems that may seem antagonistic to each other—e.g. straight grids and fluid pours—in ways that allow them to not just co-exist but also highlight their defining characteristics in a sort of fluid harmony. In this series I’ve been incorporating collaged elements; old business cards, ephemera from work, masking tape from the production of other pieces, etc.
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