Blake Rayne is an artist who was born in Delaware and lives and works in Brooklyn. After receiving his BFA at Cal Arts in the early nineties, he spent a short amount of time in Berlin before getting settled in Brooklyn.

He’s had solo shows at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Campoli Press in Paris and London, 1301PE in LA, Sutton Lane in London, Greene Naftali in NY, to name a few from a long list. He’s also shown in group shows at Gavin Brown, the Whitney Museum, the Langen Foundation in Dusseldorf, the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Matthew Marks in NYC and many more.

His work has been covered in Artforum, the NYTimes, Time Out NY, Frieze, Artpapers, Art in America and several other publications.

He’s taught at Columbia University and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The Portland Museum of Art amongst others.

Brian met up at Blake’s Navy Yard studio in Brooklyn for a pretty heady talk about his work, process, history and a little skateboarding talk on top.