Indiana University Bloomington

Savannah College of Art and Design

Visual Artist, Painter, Muralist.

Greater Chicago Area

ABOUT JASON BRAMMER:Jason Brammer is a visual artist known for his mixed media hand-painted assemblages, distinctive airbrushed paintings, meticulously-detailed drawings, and site-specific installations. In his mixed media work, Brammer creates a unique melding of painted imagery with sculptural elements, such as antique parts, reclaimed wood, and salvaged materials he finds in the alleys by his studio. Described as a "magician with paint"​, he experiments with illusionism and trompe l'oeil. Painting flat, 2-dimensional imagery to look folded, photographic, or otherwise 3-dimensional, Brammer then further "fools the eye" by seamlessly integrating real objects and layering paint and plaster on wood surfaces to replicate the look of aged, weathered metal. He enjoys making pieces that look like found artifacts, deteriorating archived relics, or antique “machines”, and strives to capture the feeling of glimpsing into another dimension or time.  Brammer has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications, and has created prominent commissioned works, including a large-scale public mural for the city of Chicago, a live painting for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, installations for LinkedIn and Dark Matter Coffee, and concert posters for My Morning Jacket, Todd Rundgren, and Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy. He was born in 1974 in Lancaster, Ohio and grew up primarily in Indianapolis, Indiana. He studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia and at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, but his current work evolved mainly from years of independent practice and experimentation. Brammer currently lives and works in Chicago, and has a private storefront studio in Humboldt Park, which is filled with ever-changing piles of rusted chains, antique pulleys, vintage gauges, and other found treasures that inspire his work. You can learn more about Jason Brammer and see his artwork at <a href="http://jasonbrammer.com">jasonbrammer.com</a>.