BLAKE SANDBERG
  • Home
  • About
  • Bio
  • PAINTINGS
  • Everything's Fine
  • Shows
  • PHOTOS
  • Contact
  • LINKS
SHOWS
Picture
East Village Arts Festival December 1st - 15th

For Immediate Release: November 14th 2018.

​  Paintings by Blake Sandberg will be included in the East Village Arts Festival at the Tompkins Square Library 331 E. 10th Street, NY, NY 10009

Opening 4-5pm Saturday, December 1st


  Blake Sandberg Is a visual artist focused on painting and drawing. He is also a writer, songwriter, and guitarist. 

   Sandberg arrived in Manhattan from Austin, Texas in 1997, promptly moved into a studio on Avenue B in the East Village, Lower East Side.  He painted a severed leg in thick black line  brushstrokes on his storefront window.  Then he launched himself onto a multi-faceted work program, which went on to include founding his company Severed Leg Productions (produce being: printed goods, tshirts, skateboards, films, and events), DJing, playing guitar in his band ALIENS, and recording experimental music.

  Sandberg’s primary activity however has been turning out paintings in which he has developed a vividly distinctive vocabulary of images and text works.   These iconic painting images include repeated elements such as a TV Eye, a Technosphere dome space, and of course a Severed Leg.  He has created a large body of work over the last two decades which has been mostly unseen by the public.   
​
  Sandberg has shown in such archetypal venues of downtown New York as CBGB gallery, and Mars Bar.  Later he was included in gallery shows in Soho at Exit Art and Frederieke Taylor, where his work was in a group show with Warhol, de Kooning, Hockney, and Christo.  Needing more room to paint larger works Blake moved to a Broadway studio in 2001.  There he was neighbors with his friend, the late great painter Richard Hambleton. Sandberg painted numerous large works in his Broadway studio.  Later exhibiting his first solo show at Aaron Payne Fine Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2003.  More shows followed in Chelsea and Brooklyn, New York, and in California, Texas, and as far as Tokyo, Japan.  Sandberg’s paintings are in a number of private collections around the globe including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Dean Valentine, and others. Most recently Sandberg showed new cityscape paintings locally in the East Village in the show, NOISE at The Red Room, curated by Anthony Haden-Guest.  Some of these paintings are included here in the East Village Arts Festival.


 
www.blakesandberg.com
Email: blakedsandberg@gmail.com
Instagram: @blakesandberg
Picture
Click here for more info and all the events in the Festival
Picture
Blake Sandberg in his East Village studio. Photo by Lisa Zane
Picture
NOISE, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
For Immediate Release, Thursday September 6th, 2018:

  Announcing NOISE! a show of paintings by Blake Sandberg at The Red Room, KGB, 85 E. 4th Street, NYC.  Opening on Thursday, September 20th, 7pm - 2am. Noise will showcase Sandberg’s unseen cityscape paintings that focus on life in New York City.  This show is part of an on-going series of art shows curated by Anthony Haden - Guest at The Red Room.  The show will be on view September 20th – October 17th, 2018.  The opening will include Randy Cohen hosting a live taping of his Person, Place, Thing Podcast with Anthony Haden - Guest, and live a performance by Vanisha Gould Trio. Please contact The Red Room for table reservations.
​
  Blake Sandberg arrived in Manhattan from Austin, Texas, in 1997, promptly moved into a studio on Avenue B, painted a severed leg on the window – well, wouldn’t you?  Then he launched himself onto a multi-faceted work program, which went on to include founding his company Severed Leg Productions (produce being: T-shirts, skateboards, films, and events), performing with his punk rock band ALIENS, and recording sessions with The Rammellzee.  Blake’s primary activity however has been turning out paintings in which he developed a vividly distinctive vocabulary of images and text works, including such elements as a TV Eye, a Technosphere, and, yes a Severed Leg.
 
   By the decade’s end Sandberg had shown in such archetypal venues of that time and that place as Exit Art, the CBGB gallery, and the hallowed Mars Bar.  In his down time which I think would be classified as stimulating rather than relaxing - being that it included hanging with the late great Richard Hambleton, frequenting art openings, parties, and regularly preventing Keith Richards from falling on his face at Sway.  So here is Blake Sandberg, who once flatlined in a hospital, and here are his paintings, his survival-art up in the KGB Red Room, back in the East Village where he started. 
 
Anthony Haden-Guest
 

KGB Red Room 85 E 4th Street, NY, NY 10003
Opening: Thursday, September 20th, 2018, 7pm
Show on view September 20 – October 17th

For Press and Reservations contact Lori Schwarz:
RED ROOM
Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Bio
  • PAINTINGS
  • Everything's Fine
  • Shows
  • PHOTOS
  • Contact
  • LINKS