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ARTIST NAME: Jeremy Blake
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Auction Results and Indebt Information on Jeremy Blake Art
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| Jeremy Blake is well known
for his DVDs, C-prints, paintings and drawings that present visual
semi-narratives combining the representational and the abstract. His
highly acclaimed artworks blur distinctions between artistic media
to present a new kind of art experience for which Blake is
recognized as an innovative pioneer. The hallucinatory transmutations in Blake's opulent DVDs unfold in seamless and dream-like loops that preclude a beginning or end. Using various graphics programs, photographs and film footage, he laboriously renders and alters his images with countless layers of line and translucent color using techniques inherited from conventional drawing and painting, as well as lighting and editing effects suggestive of film. Blake often employs socially relevant subject matter, as well as art historical references, as a kind of psychological framework to create visual containers for contemporary anxieties and discarded utopian ideals. Blake's C-prints are not stills from his DVDs, but rather are independent and original abstract images of fictional settings or "stories" that he might then mythologize in his drawings and paintings or further explore in his time-based DVDs. Blake's intimate, realistically rendered and iconic paintings often present both figurative and non-objective imagery of personal references to popular culture. Alone and in sequence the paintings imply a semi-narrative structure similar to his DVDs (or "time-based" paintings) for which he is well known. Blake has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries worldwide, and his works are in numerous public collections including the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. In 2002 he was invited by director Paul Thomas Anderson to create abstract sequences of art for the film, Punch-Drunk Love. He also produced a series of album covers and inserts for Beck's CD, Sea Change. -Source: ktfgallery.com |
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