A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Blake spent much that time converting empty class rooms in to private studios at and utilizing the luxury of the university library to research his fascinations and next series of paintings. There he won a scholarship to complete his education and by his third year he was taking only correspondence classes and working independently with local artists Peter Saul, Richard Jordan, and Michael Ray Charles.
In 1997 he moved to New York City to immerse himself in the Lower East Side art scene. He set up his studio in a tiny storefront on Avenue B and prolifically began to produce his first serious New York collection. The following year he was entered into his first major group exhibition at Frederieka Taylor in SoHo along side such childhood heroes as Phillip Guston, Warhol and Dali.
In 2000 he moved his studio from Avenue B onto Broadway to expand the scale of his work and begin a new series that would be exhibited at Exit Art in 2001 to critical review.
After the tragedy of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th of that year Blake suffered from exposure to the dust and burning fumes from Ground Zero and was hospitalized with a series of related chronic sicknesses over the next few years. In 2003 he was back in his studio painting about the experience and drawing on his unique interpretation of the American experience. In late 2003 he received his first solo exhibition in New York at Aaron Payne Fine art and since then has been ferociously creating new work, fronting NYC punk band Aliens and exhibiting throughout the North East Coast. .