Sebastian Blanck (born July 18, 1976) is an American musician and figurative painter, best known for his work with the band

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and later his paintings.

Work

Early life

Blanck was born in 1976 in

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, to Maggie Land and Dr. Thomas J.J. Blanck, a professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

Hospital. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

in 1998. In 2001, he was a visiting artist at the

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. In 2003 Sebastian Blanck married artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders, with family friend

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officiating the wedding.

Music

In the late 1990s, he became a founding member of the experimental

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group

along with Bjorn Copeland,

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and

Eric Copeland Eric Copeland (born 1978 in Brunswick, Maine, United States) is an American experimental musician based in New York City. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collective's Avey Tare. Copelan ...

. Blanck has worked as a composer for short films and documentaries including; ''

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'' (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'' on Rare Book Room Records.

Visual art

Blanck is based out of New York City. He has had solo exhibitions at

Baldwin Gallery The Baldwin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Aspen, Colorado established by Richard Edwards in 1994. The gallery features a variety of mainly American but also international contemporary artists and works including painting, drawing, sculpt ...

in Aspen Colorado, Bjorn Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm and Werkstatte Gallery in New York.

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