Jeremy Blake: Missing

Artist Jeremy Blake is missing off New York's Rockaway Beach. The news initially comes via this unconfirmed report on LA Observed. The NYPD confirmed to me that as of this morning, they consider Blake to be missing.

The details at LAO are correct: This past Tuesday, a week after Theresa Duncan, Blake's longtime girlfriend, committed suicide, a man called 911 to report that he saw someone swimming out to sea. Blake's clothes and wallet were found nearby on Rockaway Beach. Blake has not been heard from since. Duncan's funeral will be held in Detroit tomorrow.

Blake is known for photographs and DVDs that mix visual narrative with abstract forms. He had a 2005 solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, created an abstract sequence for the film Punch Drunk Love, and he worked with Beck on the CD Sea Change. This fall Blake is scheduled to have shows at his New York City gallery Kinz, Tillou and Feigen, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

UPDATE, 7.23.07: Corcoran to go forward with Blake show.