About Jason Brammer

Jason Brammer is a visual artist, painter, and muralist based in Chicago, Illinois.  Jason has painted and drawn since childhood and has been a professional, working artist for over ten years. He creates his work primarily with acrylic paint, transparent glazes, and plasters, using a combination of airbrushing and traditional brush painting techniques. The distinctive works from his Time Machines and Futura Obscura series are mixed media paintings incorporating sculptural elements such as antique gauges, vintage handles, salvaged leather, recycled wood, and tubing.  The 3-dimensional attachments flow out of the paintings and into the “real” world, creating an illusion that blends reality with the painted imagery. The artist’s current work also includes the audio-inspired, airbrushed acrylic paintings of his Soundscapes series.

Jason was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1974 and grew up primarily in Indianapolis, Indiana. His mother, who is also a painter and mural artist, encouraged him to express his artistic tendencies at a young age. Through grade school and high school art classes, he developed his skills in figure drawing, painting, and sculpture. He also discovered one of his favorite tools in high school, when his art teacher, Glen Litts, taught him how to use an airbrush. Beyond high school, Jason’s formal art education includes studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia and at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Jason resides in Chicago’s Logan Square community and has a studio in the Ukrainian Village. His work has been featured in numerous local and national art exhibitions, and at many art venues, such as Jackson Junge Gallery and the Hyde Park Art Center, he has captivated crowds by painting live.

In addition to paintings, Jason has created mixed media, painting installations for art exhibitions as well as permanent site-specific installations for commercial spaces. His largest permanent installation to date is at the I.V. Lab Recording Studio in Chicago. This installation, titled The Future Is Recording Over My Pasture, consists of 6 large paintings on canvas, connecting mural artwork, tubing, wood constructions, antique pulleys, and other integrated objects. Jason also does a lot of commissioned paintings, murals, album artwork, band posters, and more. His most recent commissions include a large, exterior mural titled United We Flow in Rogers Park, Chicago and concert posters for the bands My Morning Jacket as well as Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy.

Image: Jason Brammer inside his Ukrainian Village studio (Chicago, IL).

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