Jason Brammer is a visual artist, painter, and muralist. Jason’s artwork is created with acrylic paint, transparent glazes, and plasters using a combination of airbrushing and traditional brush painting techniques. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two cats. Jason is also the artist behind Brammer Arts, Inc., a decorative painting and fine arts company that he co-owns and operates with his wife, Erin.

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. During his teenage years, Jason also began painting mural projects with his mother, and the seeds of his future career were planted.

Upon graduating from high school, he left Indianapolis to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, but soon transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana to pursue further studies in art as well as his other passion, playing music. In Bloomington, several childhood friends had formed a rock band called “Old Pike” and Jason joined the group as their bass player. He eventually took a hiatus from art school to play music full-time with “Old Pike”, who was signed to Sony Records in 1998 for a time. They toured the country with bands such as Train and Ben Folds Five, and most notably, opened for John Mellencamp on New Year’s Eve in 1999. Although Old Pike eventually disbanded, music has continued to play an important role in his creative process.

In 2000, he moved back to Indianapolis and formally began his career working on murals and other decorative painting projects. After honing his skills in the Indianapolis area, he moved to Chicago in late 2001 and started his company, Brammer Arts, Inc. Since then, Jason has painted murals, trompe l’oeil pieces, and commissioned paintings for numerous residential and commercial clients. His largest project to date was the commission of 8 large-scale murals for Trader’s Point Christian Church in Zionsville, Indiana, including an underwater coral reef scene, a mural of planets and stars, and a futuristic cityscape.

Jason also devotes much of his time to creating original paintings and drawings in his Chicago studio and exhibits his artwork at art festivals and galleries as well as in other public spaces. His original paintings are inspired by industrial urban landscapes, graffiti, patterns in nature, Eastern art traditions, music, and spiritual iconography. Jason’s 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.