Jeremy Blake: All Mod Cons

by Terrie Sultan, Lane Relyea

Presented in conjunction with FotoFest, Houston’s city-wide celebration of photography and related media, this exhibition of the work of New York artist Jeremy Blake will feature both large-scale digitally animated projections, digital “paintings,” and drawings. Exploring the interplay between photography and painting, Blake’s work gives new meaning to the phrase “moving pictures.” He is a skilled draftsman who has convincingly mastered digital media as an artistic vehicle to create inventive visual narratives, neither succumbing to the sometimes dazzling special effects technology offers nor simply reenacting the qualities and characteristics of conventional painterly approaches. Ambiguity is a key element in his work—a kind of futuristic, kinetic, even cinematic, painting that is based on rendered interior spaces that function as pure abstraction, with a twist that these abstractions are also plot driven. Blake’s flat geometrics and fields are charged with a strongly personal vision that draws on sources as diverse as architecture, detective fiction, and color field paintings. The exhibition will be organized by Terrie Sutlan, Director, Blaffer Gallery, and will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Texas.

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Published January 1, 2002