Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake was born October 4th 1971. Blake is graduate of both the School of the Art institute of  Chicago and the California institute of Art. He first garnered attention in the late 1990s with his large-scale, semi-abstract digital C-prints (negatives) that showed both the appearance of being paintings and photographs, but yet were completely neither.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLM9wQcCrFo

At first I just regarded Blake's art as "pretty." I didn't really understand much without delving into his bio. Reading further, I began to understand, it reflects Blake's state of mind, his art is suppose to depict hallucinations. His art gives that hauntingly beautiful feel, the "beauty in chaos." It's really hard to describe the feel of his art, however I found this quote to desribe the combination of feelings in his art "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."

Art is suppose to stimulate thinking, I think that that is the weakness in Blake's art. His intention is lost at first glance and without the artists' background. Only few may get "hallucination" from first glance. I think it was helpful that I put the art after the background, I've been unconsciously doing that. But I think my thought process works like that, it's easier for me to write what I think after reading the artist bio, then looking at the art. The art suddenly makes a lot more sense.

http://www.ktfineart.com/artists/jeremy_blake/