NEW YORK.-NYPD confirmed that a body found by a New Jersey fisherman last month was that of artist Jeremy Blake, 35. police believe Blake committed suicide by drowning himself on July 17 a week after his girlfriend Theresa Duncan, 40, committed suicide.

Jeremy Blake (born 1971, died July 17, 2007) was a video artist and an American painter known for his innovations in merging and expanding the meaning and conceptions of painting with digital technology into video installations, DVDs, C-prints, and collaborative film projects.

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, the highlights of his career included being selected three times in a row for the prestigious American art showcase Whitney Biennial for 2000, 2002 and 2004. His "Winchester" series was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005.

Blake also created the painted abstract hallucination scenes in the 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch Drunk Love, and contributed artwork and video for Beck's album Sea Change. Blake was also involved in creating and commissioning a soundtrack album called "The Fourty Million Dollar Beatnik" with Neil Landstrumm and Mike Fellows in 2000 on Scandinavia Records to accompany an LA drawings/script show by Blake of the same title.