Biography
Documenting the small intimate moments in life, Sebastian Blanck’s work is comprised of portraits of loved ones, fellow artists & musicians, and his children at play. Blanck is known for both his oil paintings and his distinct collage technique that layers painted paper over watercolor onto stretched paper. Blanck’s color and draftsmanship vibrantly capture personalities and moods to convey great familiarity with his subjects.
Biography
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, 1976.
BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., 1998
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy, 2001
Lives and Works in New York City.
Solo Shows
2021 You’re My Favorite Thing by Far Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 A Year on Magnolia Road Tayloe Pigott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
2020 Shrinking Circles Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2019 Only Love and Time Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
2019 Canopy of Blue Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2018 Snow Dusk Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
2018 Weather Window Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2017 Dear Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
2016 Everyday De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
2016 That’s Why We’re Running Away Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Paper Trail Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2015 I’ll Be Your Mirror Dubner Moderne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2013 Oh, To Be Back in the Land of Coca Cola Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Carousel Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2011 YOU, YOU, YOU Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Alibi Coast Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY
2009 West Shore Drive Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2008 A River of Our Own Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2007 I Blame Baltimore Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Blue Morning Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2005 Someone to Wash Over Me Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2004 Drawn Curtain Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
2003 I Love the Shower Girl Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Sebastian Blanck Tribeca Issey Miyake New York, NY
2002 Sebastian Blanck Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida
2001 Three Projects Rooms Galleria In Arco, Turin Italy
Group Shows
2020 Do You Think It Needs A Cloud? Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Art on Paper Site Brooklyn Gallery, New York
2018 4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: Current Practice in Printmaking Site Brooklyn Gallery, New York
2018 40th Anniversary Show Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Autumn Group Show Dubner Moderne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017 Colored Light | Summer Select De Buck Gallery, New York
2015 Rose is a Rose Lepore Savage Gallery, New York, NY
2013 10 Years Wallspace, New York, NY
2008 Kunst Gruppe Werkstatte, New York, NY
2006 Summer Group Show Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Gallery Artists Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2004 River Arts Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY
2003 Flesh Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2003 25th Anniversary Show Bjorn Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Gallery Artists Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2002 Painting as Paradox Artists Space, New York, NY
2002 Friends and Family Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002 Spike Gallery, New York, NY
2002 National Prize Show Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2001 20/20 Project Space, Toronto Canada
2001 Nostalgia curated by Urbanetc., New York, NY
2001 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational New York, NY
2001 ADDITION | SUBTRACTION New York, NY
2000 Eyewash Gallery Brooklyn, NY
Bibliography
•”Calming the Chaos” MOUNTAIN LIVING, November 2020
•”The Colorful Paintings of Artist and Musician @SebastianBlanck” INSTAGRAM blog, July 2015
•Wendy Goodman, “Space of the Week: A Working Relationship” NEW YORK MAGAZINE, May 2013
•Nick Green, “At Sea”, COWBELL MAGAZINE, July 2010
•Hilary Kaylor, “Premiere: Sebastian Blanck – Empire of the Free”, RCRDLBL, July 2010
•Dale Eisinger, “Bash Compacter: Blanck Check” NEW YORK PRESS, June 2010
•Shannon Wiedley, “Album Review Sebastian Blanck – Alibi Coast” REDEFINE MAGAZINE, July 2010
•Andrew Duncan, “Sebastian Blanck – Alibi Coast (music Review)” ZAP TOWN, July 2010
•Matthew Fiander “Sebastian Blanck: Alibi Coast” Pop Matters July 2010
•Jesse Cataldo “Sebastian Blanck: Alibi Coast” SLANT MAGAZINE June 2010
•”Sebastian Blanck: Alibi Coast” NOWNESS, June 2010
•Scott Fallon “Quick Spins: Alibi Coast” THE BERGEN RECORD June 2010
•Sebastian Blanck – “I Blame Baltimore” Video STEREOGUM, May 2010
•”Premiere Freeload: Sebastian Blanck f.Caroline Polachek”, THE FADER, May 2009
•Alex Hawgood, “Independents’ Day” V MAGAZINE, Spring 2008
•Johan Falkman, “Sebastian Blanck”, THE PRODIGAL SON, Fall 2007
•Richie Frieman, “Sebastian Blanck”, PENSEYEVIEW.COM, May 2007
•Joyce Korotkin, “Sebastian Blanck” THE NEW YORK ART WORLD, April/May 2004
•”Sebastian Blanck”, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, April 2004
•Meghan Dailey, “Critic’s Pick” ART FORUM, December, 2002
•Meghan Sutherland, “Mont Blanck” PAPER MAGAZINE, November, 2002
•Deborah Schoeneman, Blanck Slate NEW YORK POST, Aug. 12, 2002
•Sebastian Blanck, THE NEW YORKER, Aug. 5, 2002
•Alexandra Jacobs, Guy paints naked girlfriend THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, July 15, 2002
•Sharon Edelson, Blanck Canvas WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY, July 10, 2002
•Thomas Garvey, Award Winning Art ARTS MEDIA, Summer 2002
•Next door at Daniel Azoulay STREET MIAMI, March 8-14, 2002
•Sara Sites, If you are interested in painting MIAMI ART EXCHANGE.COM, March 4, 2002
Publications
You’re My Favorite Thing by Far, published by Wetterling Gallery, Sweden, 2021
I Blame Baltimore, published by Wetterling Gallery, Sweden, 2007
I Love the Shower Girl, published by Wetterling Gallery, Sweden, 2003
Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, published by Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, FL, 2003
Three Projects Room: Sebastian Blanck, published by Galleria In Arco, Italy, 2001
Public & Corporate Collections
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH