Jeremy Blake, born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma and raised in Tacoma, Washington, was known for his pioneering approach to fine art in the late 1990s that involves DVDs, C-prints, drawings and paintings that combine realism and abstraction and are visual semi-narratives that combine historical references with relevant contemporary social concerns. In style, he combined representation and abstraction, non-objectivity and figurative and portrait imagery. His goal was to convey "a kind of psychological framework to create visual containers for contemporary anxieties and discarded utopian ideals." (Feigen)

His narratives unfolded in dream-like loops that seem to have no beginning nor ending. He created them with ...