Blaise Rosenthal is a self-taught artist born in New York City in 1973. At the age of six, his family relocated to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California, where he would spend the remainder of his formative years. He cites environmental archetypes formed during this period as a basis for his abstract vocabulary, and has used his extensive travels as a means of developing a broad context within which to place his work. Currently residing and working in Santa Cruz, California, Blaise utilizes simple materials such as charcoal, pastel, acrylic paint and canvas, and a focus on the dynamic nature of abstraction, to create paintings that offer both a subjective sincerity and an objective accessibility. In this way, this artist strives to create work that can transcend identity-oriented barriers and touch on fundamental aspects of our common human experience. Blaise has been exhibiting with Johansson Projects since 2016.