In the early 1980’s, Dike Blair began rendering scenes from his life in gouache on paper. This ongoing series of diaristic paintings document an intimate sensation of the things we imbibe and the places we drift through in a world reconfigured for entertainment. The split-second quality and photographic luminosity of these paintings is owed partially to their origin as photographs—often captured using flash or artificial light. Blair’s work is featured in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, The Morgan Library & Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.