Jeremy Blake, 1972 - 2007.

Jeremy Blake, an up-and-coming artist who sought to bridge the worlds of painting and film in lush, color-saturated, hallucinatory digital video works, has died, the New York City Police said yesterday. He was 35 and lived in the East Village in Manhattan.

The cause of death was presumed to be suicide... Mr Blake's companion of a dozen years, Theresa Duncan, 40, a writer, filmmaker and former video-game designer, had committed suicide a week earlier, on July 10, and Mr Blake found her body in their apartment, according friends of the couple....

His work, which was included in three Whitney Biennials, became known to a much larger audience when he created trippy, fluid sequences of abstract art for the 2002 movie Punch-Drunk Love, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who had seen an exhibition of Mr Blake's art while working on the film.

Randy Kennedy, New York Times.

Update, 8/3: "It is very possible that Kate Coe has penned the Theresa Duncan article to end all Theresa Duncan articles," writes Ed Champion. "Beyond the careful reporting, let us consider the important role of hyperlinks in the online version of this article. Had this been merely a print piece, would these references have been half as helpful? The hyperlink is here to stay. Embrace it. (via Michelle Richmond)"

Posted by dwhudson at August 1, 2007 2:26 AM