Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: Title: "Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certian Concept" 40 x 26 inches pencil, marker, collage, and acrylic on textured polypropylene 2021
Title: "Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certian Concept" 40 x 26 inches pencil, marker, collage, and acrylic on textured polypropylene 2021
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 14, brushed on blue-greys in a circular formation with smeared on poured paint on top. Vine pattern over pencil grid with overlaps filled in with light blue Sharpie. Peachy earthy oranges and yellows poke through.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 3, three dripped on concentric black and white spots in a pool of peachy dun poured paint. Obscured pencil grid with overlaid circles poke through.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 4, two concentric circles of dripped black and white paint in a pool of poured paint with yellows and blue-grey. A Vine pattern origin spot pokes through with blue-grey vine pattern radiating out. Pencil grid with filled in overlaps is visible underneath. Several layers working together to create a sense of space and history.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 19, there is something just visceral about the way the paint pulls together in webs. The interplay between the organic feel of the flowing poured paint, the streaks from brushwork and the lattice formed when thin layers pull apart tell a story of a space that has been lived in. The outlines of serial number stickers are visible as raised rounded rectangles. Things have happened here and things continue to happen.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 5, underneath everything, circles in grid deteriorate and then stop. Smeared yellow-orange paint like a firestorm obliterates and further layers with more volume add complexity on top
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 1, serial number stickers in a cross pattern. One of the stickers is blank.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 13, a pattern of stickers emerges from beneath the poured paint
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 6, such great web-forming and interplay between the blue-greys and the oranges.
Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept by Blake Brasher Image: detail 2, blues and greens and duns and yellows. Circles and lines, sometimes a grid. Textures are everywhere.

Worrying About the Subtlety of a Certain Concept

  • pencil, marker, collage, and acrylic on textured polypropylene
  • 40 x 26 x 0.1 in
  • Blake Brasher
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I have been using rulers, pencils, and compases to draw intricate substructures into the composition. I spend hours making these structures that I know will largely end up obscured under layers of built up paint.

The fine lines disappear. They hint at a more complex structure hidden underneath. In some places the ordered structure is nearly completely obliterated by chaotic smears and roiling poured paint.

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