Jake Longstreth
John Pullman "Jake" Longstreth, Jr. (born February 3, 1977), is an American painter, musician, and internet radio personality. He is currently the co-host of the Apple Music 1 show, Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig and member of a Grateful Dead cover band, Richard Pictures, as well as his own musical outfit, Mountain Brews.
Jake Longstreth | |
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| Born | John Pullman Longstreth, Jr. February 3, 1977 Amenia, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Lewis & Clark College (BA) California College of the Arts (MFA) |
| Spouse | Hannah Fidell |
| Relatives | David Longstreth (brother) |
| Website | jakelongstreth |
Education
Longstreth received his Bachelor of Arts in 1999 from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and his Master of Fine Arts in 2005 from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.[1]
Career
He is a 2008 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.[1] His paintings can be found in the collections at the Crocker Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, and JP Morgan Chase, among others.[2]
Longstreth tends to portray architecture in flat, geometric forms, recalling influences such as Robert Bechtle and David Hockney, finding a place between “documentary” realism and symbolic metaphor, whereas his landscapes are portrayed as more of an improvised realism.[3][4][5]
He makes regular appearances as a co-host and former "West Coast correspondent" on Time Crisis, the Apple Music internet radio show hosted by Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, where he frequently gives in-depth investigative reports on various topics such as the history of the Frito-Lay corporation, PepsiCo, and the NRA.[6] Longstreth is also a guitarist in the Grateful Dead cover band, Richard Pictures. In 2016, he made several appearances with Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors as a supporting musician during their performances for Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.[7][8] Richard Pictures continued to perform with Vampire Weekend at various live shows such as the 2018 Ojai performance,[9] and opened for the band at several venues for their 2019 Father of the Bride tour.[10] In June 2019, Longstreth released an EP with rock group Mountain Brews,[11] and in January 2020 the group released their second EP, Let It Grow.[12] On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, during their two-night concert series at Red Rocks, Vampire Weekend covered Longstreth's "Mountain Brews," the title track from the EP of the same name.[13] Longstreth's third EP with Mountain Brews, Raised in a Place, released on November 7.[14]
Personal life
Longstreth is the older brother of David Longstreth, the lead singer and guitarist of Dirty Projectors.[15][16] He married filmmaker Hannah Fidell on September 23, 2017 in Inverness, California.[17]
References
- ^ a b "Particulate Matter". Guernica, Magazine of Art & Politics. October 15, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ "CV". JakeLongstreth.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ^ . artslant.com. Archived from the original on August 4, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Jake Longstreth - ARTFORUM". mutualart.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Jake Longstreth, Artist - Sight Unseen". Sight Unseen. November 8, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^ "Instagram photo by Jake Longstreth • Apr 13, 2016 at 8:00pm UTC". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Instagram photo by Luis Calderin • Feb 2, 2016 at 2:40pm UTC". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Instagram photo by Jake Longstreth • Jun 16, 2018". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- ^ "Vampire Weekend Tour Adds Soccer Mommy, Chicano Batman & More as Opening Acts". Billboard.com. 8 February 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- ^ "Mountain Brews EP". Bandcamp. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- ^ "Let It Grow EP, by Mountain Brews".
- ^ "Vampire Weekend cover Mountain Brews". YouTube. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ "Raised In A Place EP, by Mountain Brews". Mountain Brews. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
- ^ "Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth, Siblings Chat on Ezra's Radio Show". Pitchfork.com. 20 September 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig Chats With Dev Hynes, @Seinfeld2000, Joe Mande on Beats 1". Pitchfork.com. 16 November 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
Koenig's other guests on the show were painter Jake Longstreth (Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth's brother)
- ^ "Weddings: Hannah Fidell, Jake Longstreth". The New York Times. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.