Damian Loeb
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Damian Loeb (born May 9, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s.
Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, Loeb had his first solo show in 1999 at the Mary Boone Gallery. Since then, he has had international solo and group shows at galleries and museums, including White Cube in London, the Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, and a 2006 retrospective of his work at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut. His work is featured in several prestigious private collections, including Douglas Cramer, Michael Lynne, and the Rubell Family Collection, and has attracted the attention of a number of famous collectors, including Elton John and Mike Nichols.
Much of his early work gained him notoriety for his appropriation of images from contemporary media sources, and his paintings were the subject of several lawsuits brought by photographers over issues of copyright infringement. In 2004, controversy led to the removal of one of his paintings, Blow Job (The Three Little Boys) from a show at the University of Hartford.
More recently, Loeb has moved towards creative autonomy by shooting his own digital photographs as a source for his paintings. Loeb’s hyperrealist narrative paintings evoke the iconic images embedded in the collective unconscious, illustrating the overlap between our memories of images from contemporary cinema and our ‘real world’ experiences.
Damian Loeb has been married to Zoya Todorovic Loeb, an Oxford-educated British model and screenwriter, since 2003. The couple live in Manhattan, New York City with their baby daughter, Vivian.
Loeb has an exhibition scheduled for September 2008 at Aquavella Galleries, 18 East 79th Street, New York.
