Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake's style of work in this music video for Beck is typical of the work he is most celebrated for. He combines still photographs with digital painting and sets it in motion, allowing it all to interact in time, to morph and to change. What I love most though are Blake's colors. He choses bright neon colors but brings them in slowly and in just the right way. Some of his arrangements remind me of color field painters like Morris Louis or Helen Frankenthaller. Blake overlaps is "painting" with photography and often uses it to accentuate certain parts of the photos that he choses. The technique is used slowly to add more drama to the change.