Dike Blair

Untitled, 1997, gouache and pencil on paper, 24 x 18 inches

gouaches, new york

interview by JEFF RIAN

All artworks copyright Dike Blair and Karma, New York

 

JEFF RIAN — Did you ever think the gouaches would be so much a part of your work?
DIKE BLAIR — I’d only been showing for a few years when I had the notion to paint landscapes on paper, but as a kind of “Sunday painter” thing. This was on holiday in the early ’80s. You were there. Maybe you remember. I didn’t imagine showing them with my more “sophisticated” work. But I showed about 35 of them in an East Village gallery, Christminster, in 1986, concurrently with a show of complicated, ambitious work I did at Baskerville and Watson Gallery.

JEFF RIAN — I do remember. But then they evolved.
DIKE BLAIR —…