Jeremy blake architects

JEREMY BLAKE (1971 - 2007) was an artist of recognized accomplishment and promise. His artistic achievements and career were fast on the rise. He was considered influential and iconoclastic. Sadly, Blake committed suicide in July 2007 in New York City one week after his beloved companion of 12 years, Theresa Duncan, committed suicide--the reasons for which remain open only to conjecture.

Blake first garnered attention in the late 1990s with his large-scale, semi-abstract digital C-prints that rendered the appearance of being paintings and photographs, but were neither. He then began to animate sequences of such images to create continuously looping digital video works that emulated paintings and film, but were neither. His visually dense images often incorporated both abstract and representational expressions through the language of Modernism and voices of Film Noir. Blake's aesthetically stylized works addressed a range of subjects from violence and terrorism to glamour and decadence, from metaphors of architectural spaces to profiles of cultural personifications.

Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake was born in Aylesbury to a salesman and artist and a PA and dancer. He acted in the UK and Germany till he was 26 then he sold advertising and became one of the leading salespeople for Yellow Pages. He then co-founded Reality Training with Bob Morrell which is approaching its 18th year. His first book, The Death of Late Space, Your Guide to Success in Media Sales was written to train any media salesperson in a powerful sales conversation structure; they released a second edition in 2010. His second book The Perfect Storm, 30 ways to Drive Your Business was researched and written to stimulate sales growth through the last recession. The Brexit Manager is his third collaboration with Bob Morrell and is written to help leaders and managers to inspire their teams during this particularly intriguing period in the UK's political history. He is married to a science teacher and lives with his three children in Bucks, England.

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Jeremy Blake

JeremyBlake was an American digital artist and painter, born in Oklahoma in 1971. The talented and promising artist committed suicide in New York City in 2007, only one week after his girlfriend ended her life. Their deaths stunned their friends, captivated the artistic world and fascinated the press, causing speculations and conspiracy theories.


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Blake completed his undergraduate studies at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993 and obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from California Institute of the Arts in 1995. He began making a name for himself in the late 1990s with his large, semi-abstract digital projections that were neither photographs nor paintings. These geometric forms with photographic images were reminiscent of movie scenes. Later, he started creating digital video sequences that were neither films, not paintings but appeared to be both. Blake called his works “time-based paintings”. In 2000s Blake started including narrative and documentary elements in his works. The Winchester video trilogy, shown at the

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