DIKE BLAIR
b. 1952, United StatesDike Blair (b. 1952, New Castle, PA) is a New York-based artist who has been documenting quotidian, mostly American scenes since the 1980s. Working in oil and gouache, his photorealistic tableaus derive from his own photographs, many of which are captured with flash. Blair’s sensitive attention to the ordinary and the commonplace is both romantic and ironic. Featuring cocktails, ashed cigarettes, and split hot dogs, his images cast a wistful glow on the unexceptional phenomena of daily life. Recent solo exhibitions include The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2019); Karma, New York (2018); Frieze, New York (2018); Secession, Vienna (2016); and Jüergen Becker Gallery, Hamburg (2016).
Blair’s work is featured in the collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, among others.
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