Kay Gasei is a London-raised artist who explores themes of world mythologies, histories of people and cultures, psychoanalysis, social politics, the timelessness of cultural capital and philosophy.
15% of the proceeds of auctioned pieces go to Patients for Affordable Drugs, a U.S. based non-profit organisation focused on achieving policy changes to lower the price of prescription drugs.
The artist’s eclectic style utilises a montage of drawn and painted details, characters and spaces to create a narrative whilst keeping an air of ambiguity.
There's a feeling of happiness, which I don't really get when making other paintings.
The works featured are the musings of the black box that is Kay Gasei’s mind. gowithYamo Presents: Kay Gasei’s Black Box Series has granted the artist, who is constantly scribbling and doodling ideas, with the space and a chance to showcase the concept of a thought process over what is typically considered a ‘finished’ piece.
I guess we're all constantly thinking, you know, everyone does, and then you just go, instead of me like, letting it being a fleeting thought I go, I'm gonna write it down, or draw it.
The exhibition will centre around 7 large canvases from Kay Gasei’s Black Box series, with 50 sketches displayed alongside to illustrate the artist’s creative process. All canvases and sketches will be on sale, and 10 ‘prototype’ drawings will be available via The Auction Collective, with bidding starting at £50 and 15% of the proceeds going to the charity Patients for Affordable Drugs.
I'm not trying to give or imbue like any actual meaning, again, it's just exploration... exploration is the feeling for these ones, and then fun-ness...
Details are taken from Kay Gasei’s sketchbook pages and organic doodles added in situ to further express the spontaneity of the thought process, and the exhibition offers a unique insight into artistic process and development.
