Jeremy Blake

Infobox Person
name= Jeremy Blake


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caption= Blake with girlfriend Theresa Duncan
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birth_date= birth date|1971|10|4|mf=y
birth_place= Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States
death_date= death date and age|2007|07|17|1971|10|4
death_place= Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, United States
education = California Institute of the Arts
occupation = Digital artist
Painter
partner = Theresa Duncan
nationality = American
website =

Jeremy Blake (October 4, 1971 – July 17, 2007) was an American digital artist and painter known for his innovations in merging and expanding the meaning and conceptions of painting with digital technology into projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects.

Biography

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, the highlights of his career included being selected three times in a row for the prestigious American art showcase Whitney Biennial for 2000, 2002 [ [http://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/artists.html Whitney Biennial website] ] and 2004. [ [http://whitney.domanidev.com/exhibition/biennial.shtml Whitney Biennial website] ] His "Winchester" series, inspired by the story of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. [http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=200 sfmoma.org] ] Blake also created the painted abstract hallucination scenes in the 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson film "Punch Drunk Love", and contributed artwork and video for Beck's album "Sea Change." Blake was also involved in creating and commissioning a soundtrack album called "The Forty Million Dollar Beatnik" with Neil Landstrumm and Mike Fellows in 2000 on Scandinavia Records and Pork Salad Press to accompany an LA drawings/script show by Blake of the same title.

His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art [ [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A32652&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 moma.org] ] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Personal life

Blake was the boyfriend of filmmaker, cultural critic and pioneering video game creator Theresa Duncan. In February 2007, the couple moved from Los Angeles to New York City, and resided in the East Village.

Death

On July 10, 2007, Blake found Duncan dead, the result of suicide. On July 17 2007, Blake was reported missing off New York's Rockaway Beach. According to news accounts, a woman called 911 to report that she saw a man walking out into the ocean. Blake's clothes and wallet were reportedly found along with a suicide note that referred to Duncan. [Kennedy, Randy. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/arts/design/01blake.html "Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies"] , "The New York Times", August 1, 2007. Accessed December 29, 2007.]

According to statements by acquaintances of the couple that have appeared in published reports (including an article in the January 2008 "Vanity Fair"), Blake said that he and Duncan were being followed and harassed by Scientologists prior to his disappearance. Blake also included his allegations of harassment by Scientologists and others in a 27-page "chronicle" he prepared for a lawsuit he planned to file. [cite web | first = Nancy Jo | last = Sales | title = The Golden Suicides | url = http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/suicides200801?printable=true&currentPage=all | work = | publisher = Vanity Fair | month = January | year = 2008 | accessdate = 2007-12-26 ]

The couple was posthumously profiled in the September 10, 2007 issue of "Newsweek."

References

External links

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* [http://mplsreview.blogspot.com/search/label/Jeremy%20Blake Remembrance of Jeremy Blake with clips from various digital works] from The Minneapolis Review
* [http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/exhibits_future_results.asp?Exhib_ID=189 Corcoran Gallery of Art] detailed bio
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15637707 Exhibit Honors Young Artist Whose Star Was Rising] NPR, Weekend Edition, October 27, 2007
* [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/historyofglamour_video200801 'History of Glamour'] , a 40-minute film animated by Jeremy Blake and Karen Kilimnik, and written and directed by Theresa Duncan
* [http://www.ktfgallery.com/artists/jeremy_blake/ Jeremy Blake] - Jeremy Blake was represented by KTF Gallery
* Tim Griffin, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_42/ai_n6005384 "In Conversation: John Baldessari & Jeremy Blake"] , "ArtForum", March 2004.

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NAME= Blake, Jeremy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Digital artist, painter
DATE OF BIRTH= October 4, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH= Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States
DATE OF DEATH= July 17, 2007
PLACE OF DEATH= Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, United States