BLAKE SANDBERG
Born in Austin, Texas
Lives nomadically between Austin, Texas and New York City
Lives nomadically between Austin, Texas and New York City
“smart” and “charismatic”
- New Yorker Magazine
“Great hair” - John Waters
Solo Shows
'Technosphere' Installation and billboard painting shown, Marfa, Texas 2005
'Shock and Awe,' Escapist Gallery, Austin, Texas 2004
'All Business / All Pleasure', Ballroom, Marfa, Texas 2003
'Made in Voyage', Aaron Payne Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York 2003
'Blake Sandberg Postcards', the Log Cabin, New York, 2003
'Some Prints', TERMINAL, Tokyo, Japan 2001
'Full Cycle Series', Gas Hall, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, Texas, 1999
'The Gag Series', Dumbo Summer Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 1999
'New Paintings of Houses, Limbs, and Food', 30 paintings shown
the New Gallery at the University of Texas, 1997
Group Shows
Drawings shown at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, 2006
‘You Are Here’, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas 2005
‘Social Order’, Buia Gallery, New York, 2003
Paintings shown with live models at Chanel, New York, 2002
'Reactions', Exit Art, New York, 2001
'Spunky', Exit Art, New York, 2001
'GEN ART Show', New York, 2000
'Shoes, Shoes, Shoes: Photographs, Drawings, Objects'
Included works by de Kooning, Warhol, Christo, Guston, Dali Frederieke Taylor TZ' Art, 2000
'Summer Show', Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 2000
'Annual Student Art Show' , University of Texas at Austin, 1997
'Ray Johnson Memorial Art Show', Wheeler Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, 1996
Publications
"Notes on the ‘Dramatics' or Dynamics of the Object" ,
Performing Arts Journal, PAJ 63(September 1999):105-111
Collections
Beth Rudin de Woody, New York
Anthony Haden Guest, New York
Genvieve A Blouin, Montreal, Canada
Geoff Young, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Peter Saul, New York
Paul Auster, New York
Lisa Zane, Los Angeles
Donald Bachelor, New York
A.G. Rosen, New Jersey
Gavin Brown, New York
Frederieke Taylor, New York
Carlo McCormick, New York
Dorit Chrysler, New York
Dean Valentine, Los Angeles
Peter Halley, New York
John Medeski, New York
Christopher Henry, New York
Brad Roberts, New York
Leeta Harding, New York
Nicholas Taylor, New York
Kimiko Ivic, Toronto
Simon Watson, New York
Bill Murray, New York
Molly Kemp, Austin, TX
Michael Holman, New York
Oliver Platt, Hollywood, CA
Charlie Finch, New York
Eiichi Izumi, Tokyo
Nina Koh and Aaron Payne, New York
Adrian Turner, New York
Jefferey Deitch, New York
Scott Harding, New York
Pierre DeGuzman, New York
Mary-Claire Sharp, Palm Beach, Florida
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"BELOW RADAR," Documentary on CH 57 (Manhattan
Neighborhood Network) "OUTSIDE MY WINDOW"
"SPUNKY," The New Yorker, October 22, 2001
Johnson, Ken, "Spunky," The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2001
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PHOTO: SAMM COHEN
