Sebastian Blanck
| Sebastian Blanck | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 18, 1976 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Rhode Island School of Design |
| Known for | Black Dice (band), Fine art painting |
| Style | Figurative painting |
| Website | http://www.sebastianblanck.com/ |
Sebastian Blanck (born July 18, 1976 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American musician and figurative painter, best known for his work with the band Black Dice and later his paintings.
Blanck was born in1976 in New Haven, Connecticut to Maggie Land and Dr. Thomas J.J. Blanck, a professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at New York University Hospital. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. In 2001, he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2003 Sebastian Blanck married artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders, with family friend Lou Reed officiating the wedding.
In the late 1990s, he was is a founding member of the experimental electronica group Black Dice along with Bjorn Copeland, Hisham Bharoocha and Eric Copeland. Blanck has worked as a composer for short films and documentaries including; Thinking XXX (2004), Ghosts of Grey Gardens (2005), About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (2012) and more. After Blanck left Black Dice to focus on painting, he returned to music, but veered away from his former band's electronic aesthetic. On June 22, 2010, Blanck released an unplugged, folk, solo album called Alibi Coast. The album was released on Rare Book Room Records.
Blanck is based out of New York City. He has had numerous solo exhibitions including those at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen Colorado, Bjorn Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm and Werkstatte Gallery in New York. His work has been reviewed in dozens of magazines and newspapers including by Joyce Korotkin in The New York Art World, Meghan Dailey in Art Forum, Meghan Sutherland in Paper Magazine, Deborah Schoeneman in the New York Post as well as in the New Yorker and Women's Wear Daily.
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