Thomas Brasch is the Digital & Photography Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of April 2019. He is a award-winning Canadian photographer and digital artist. His “Out of the Darkness” series is a series of digitally manipulated photographs of cities that have experienced tragedies of random violence, without the use of representational graphic imagery.  Each piece is titled by the city and the date of the event and it is up to the viewer to discover the connections.

Thomas’ Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of April 2019. The gallery will promote Thomas and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3500+ collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Thomas’ Artist Statement below as she describes his inspiration and process for the “Out of the Darkness” series in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Thomas’ work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Thomas’ Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Thomas and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Thomas Brasch’s Artist Statement

“Out of the Darkness” is a series of commemorative, documentary and aesthetically pleasing works based on how cities heal after a tragedy. Each creation is a manipulation of a single rectangular source image which is captured, site specific, in the different cities represented. The image undergoes a transformation of multiple iterations and layering in order to create the vibrant geometry, representative of our collective humanity.

This is not about the tragedy. It is about the commemoration, the healing and celebration. We are not allowing the events, the names nor the repercussions to be forgotten. “We will not let hate win” is the motto for the Orlando Pulse memorial. We are each other. We are the person who is seated beside us, we are the person who is seated across the room, and we are any person around the globe who feels love and feels the pain of loss. Humanity will survive.

How do we save the light of the ones we lost and of those who are forever marked by the event? How do we find that courage and resilience to continue? Moreover, how do we dispel the darkness? The circle is a line without a beginning or end. It can be seen as a symbol of wholeness and perfection, or of power, motion and time.

This series, Out of the Darkness, provides an intelligent way of initiating a discussion on the tragedies of random violence without the use of representational graphic imagery. In these images, we see beyond the chaos and destruction and find a way to reconnect with ourselves, with each other and with our living spaces.

Each piece is titled by the city and the date of the event. It is up to the viewer to discover the connections. Each piece is a 40″x40″ limited edition of 6.

Thomas Brasch (B.A, B.Ed. MBA) has devoted twenty-eight years to education. However, his passion for photography drives his creative expression. Completely self-taught in the art, he is able to showcase his perceptions of beauty, turning the real into surreal. His images have been juried in multiple shows and selected for several private collections.

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