Untitled (Cocktail)
by Dike Blair
Signed Limited Edition
From $250
We've previously worked with Dike to produce prints of a swimming pool and an ashtray, so a cocktail was the next logical step in the R&R triad. This gouache still life exemplifies Blair's interest in creating a painting that goes right up to the edge of photorealism, but still reveals the hand-made process behind it. As for the subject, Blair is fascinated with glass in all its forms: "I'm something of a luminist. I think there's a certain romanticism about the glow, a transcendental thing."
Dike Blair is a painter and sculpture whose work is included at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2010 he received the Rome Prize and in 2009, a Guggenheim Fellowship. Blair says one constant in his work is the subject of light, remarking that his paintings are personal while his objects tend to be more formal. Dike Blair studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977. He is also a writer and a professor at RISD. Blair lives and works in New York.
