Jason Brammer – Artist Bio:

Jason Brammer is a visual artist, painter, and muralist. Jason’s paintings are produced using traditional painting techniques and airbrushing, as well as layering of plasters, resins, and other media. His artwork is inspired by industrial urban landscapes, graffiti, patterns in nature, Eastern art traditions, music, and spiritual iconography. Also, many of his paintings aim to invoke a sense of a different time and place. This is often done by creating layers on the piece and then scraping parts of them away to reveal the image, or by painting and airbrushing ethereal, smoky imagery in contrast to sharp and vivid forms.

Jason was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1974 and grew up primarily in Indianapolis, Indiana. His art education includes studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia and at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Jason currently lives in Chicago where he creates artwork in his Ukrainian Village studio. In addition, he owns and operates a muraling and fine arts company called Brammer Arts, Inc (www.brammerarts.net), which he started in 2001 when he moved to Chicago. Through Brammer Arts, Jason has enjoyed painting large-scale custom murals for numerous residential and commercial clients.

Jason Brammer – Artist Statement:

When working on a painting or drawing, I enjoy being fully immersed in the present moment and attempt to let go of any forced concepts. This, in turns, helps me to be open to unique and unexpected ideas from my imagination. With this mindset, I aim to create visually interesting, multi-dimensional paintings that will continually reveal new elements to the viewer each time they look at it, or pose questions for the viewer to consider.

My latest series, called “Remembering the Future”, is a collection of paintings that portrays a “photo-surrealistic” view of the future, rendered in a style that appears to be aged (to suggest the melding of future and past). These paintings offer the viewer a glimpse into an all-seeing future of floating sea creatures, industrial wastelands, hovering networks of machinery, and UFOs foraging flooded landscapes.