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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 56 W x 56 H x 1.5 D in
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This is a large abstract painting in acrylic and Sharpie on heavy duty 12oz cotton duck canvas. I use high quality Golden Acrylic paints and have recently taken to use a type of Sharpie called "Sharpie Extreme" which claims to be fade resistant but I expect the Sharpie pigment will still fade a bit faster than the acrylic pigment (which should stay vibrant for hundreds of years, thousands if kept out of UV light). I also use various acrylic media to increase transparency, extend working life, achieve poured paint effects, and build texture. The name of this painting is from a tech podcast I was listening to while editing the image files. Yes of course I edit the image files. The pictures don't come out of the camera as a perfectly cropped square. Other than the perfect square cropping, though, I really don't. But anyway I was listening to the nerdiest of all possible podcasts, "Mac Power Users" and yes everything about that is embarrassing. I like the name though, and it fits with this painting, which was the first I finished after my residency term at my MFA program at Lesley University this June. I had not been actually painting a lot, in getting ready for the residency period, and after I was feeling a little stuck. I think this painting is just a bit overworked. Or very overworked, but in a nice way. So the title fits. For me at least, the more I work on a painting the more problems arise. This became an exercise in fixing those problems. It's all the things I was able to fix. This one incorporates collaged elements. I keep saying I am going to do collage, and I collect things, but they rarely make it into my paintings. In this case, it's those metallic bubble wrap bags that they put your cold foods in when you get your groceries delivered from Whole Foods when you are super fancy like we are over here and it is CoViD lockdown so you do not go to the store yourself but you pay another human being to put their life at risk instead of yours but you don't have to feel that bad about it because you always pay a tip that is a few dollars higher than the app suggests. I've got so many of those bags now.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:56 W x 56 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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Blake Brasher is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Lowell, MA. He grew up In North Pole, Alaska, and also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts to attend MIT. He earned a bachelor of science I. Art and design from MIT in 2003 and has also studied art at Harvard and CMU. He also works three days a week as a robotics engineer for Boston Dynamics in Waltham, MA and had a decade long career as a living statue in Harvard Square, Cambridge and other venues around the world.
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