Rachel Brask reveals client commission of contemporary new direction
Rachel Brask was commissioned to create a painting for a client, in the style of the next step in the evolution of her signature “rainy days” style of oil paintings — a more abstract approach, leaving some of the strips of her pointilism process alongside more “finished” dripping rain-drop textures. Brask had first attempted created a small body of work experimenting in this style, dubbed her “Rainy Rip Revealed” series. Since revealing the series to the public, through shows and open studios in her SoWa Boston studio, Brask has been intrigued by the popularity of the engagement people have shown with this slight shift in her style.
“This is particularly why I’m really excited to have the opportunity to work with this client to create my first commissioned piece in this shift in style,” Rachel Brask states. “This client gave me full license to create something abstract and rainy, but within the key color palettes of her home and existing art collection, and while maintaining a shufflling, alternating pattern of the raindrops and the impasto pointillism dots shuffling into each other within the movement of the triptych.”
Without further ado, the painting commission revealed, as installed in the real living space, the dining room, of the client’s townhouse.
