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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.
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 and 2004. 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.
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 to accompany an LA drawings/script show by Blake of the same title.
Blake was the romantic partner of filmmaker, cultural critic and pioneering video game artist Theresa Duncan. In February 2007, the couple moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where Blake had a job at Rockstar Games, and resided in the East Village.
On July 10, 2007, Blake found Duncan dead, apparently by 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 swimming out to sea. Blake's clothes and wallet were reportedly found under the boardwalk at Rockaway's 122nd Street Beach, along with a suicide note that referred to Duncan. On the morning of July 22, 2007, a body thought to be that of Jeremy Blake was discovered 4.5 miles off the coast of Sea Girt, New Jersey (which is 35 miles south of Rockaway Beach). Police announced on July 31, 2007 that they had identified his body.
According to statements by acquaintances of the couple that have appeared in published reports (including an article in the January 2008 Vanity Fair), Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan believed that they were being followed and harassed by Scientologists up to the point of their deaths. 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.
The couple was posthumously profiled in the September 10, 2007 issue of Newsweek.
References
- Kennedy, Randy. "Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies", The New York Times, August 1, 2007. Accessed December 29, 2007.
- Sales, Nancy Jo (2008). "The Golden Suicides". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
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External links
- Remembrance of Jeremy Blake with clips from various digital works from The Minneapolis Review
- Corcoran Gallery of Art detailed bio
- Exhibit Honors Young Artist Whose Star Was Rising NPR, Weekend Edition, October 27, 2007
- 'History of Glamour', a 40-minute film animated by Jeremy Blake and Karen Kilimnik, and written and directed by Theresa Duncan
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