Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Blair studied film at the University of Texas in Austin. After a few years in the film industry in Los Angeles, he moved to San Francisco to continue to work in film. He joined a small collective of filmmakers and wrote, produced, and directed short films. During this period is when he began painting. After getting into his first gallery in San Francisco, painting became his primary focus.From San Francisco Blair moved to New York. The urban environment of the East Coast is probably what had the greatest influence on his work. His obsession with systems or organizational methods is found in the root of the work.Whether it's the Periodic table, the references to mass transportation, city street maps, or simplified illustrations of war machines, his pieces pay tribute to the intricate details behind the systems humans operate in. Within these familiar graphic representations, he lets live the chaos and messiness of the failure and successes of discovery, and the impossibility for 100% pure forced order. Blair has since moved back to San Francisco where he lives and works full time…for now.