Peacekeeper (2026)

MASTERWORKS — Floral Gun Bouquet Reconstruction Series

Created entirely through Brent Ray Fraser’s signature Brush Stroke Technique, Peacekeeper continues Fraser’s long running exploration of phallic symbolism, violence, sexuality, and transformation through image making. Though Fraser has never fired a real gun himself, he has long been fascinated by the psychological and symbolic parallels between firearms, masculinity, power, and the body.

This work traces back to Fraser’s iconic Floral Gun Bouquet series first developed in 2012, where toy handguns were photographed alongside elaborate handmade floral arrangements created by the artist inside The Silo Studio, often incorporating flowers grown from his own garden. Inspired partly by childhood cartoons where firearms comically discharged oversized “BANG” flags instead of bullets, Fraser began reimagining weapons as vessels for peace, nature, surprise, and beauty rather than destruction.

After years of being repeatedly asked whether the original Floral Gun Bouquet works were hand painted or created using Fraser’s Brush Stroke Technique, the artist began developing an entirely new series of body painted firearm studies intended to replace the original photographed toy guns from 2012. For this reason, flowers do not yet emerge from these painted revolvers. These works function as prototype studies that will eventually be merged with Fraser’s original floral bouquet imagery documented years earlier, bridging past and present bodies of work into a newly expanded series.

Influenced additionally by Andy Warhol’s celebrated revolver imagery, Fraser transforms the handgun into an emotionally charged contemporary icon through expressive monochromatic mark making, gestural texture, and physical performance. The revolver becomes suspended between menace and vulnerability, violence and tenderness, destruction and creation.

Entirely executed using Fraser’s body driven Brush Stroke Technique and completed exclusively with the artist’s manhood, the painting merges action painting, pop expressionism, and embodied performance into a singular act of confrontation and release.

Size: 36 x 48 in