Seattle Weekly Visual Arts By Mark D. Fefer June 20, 2002 Blair Wilson When young Blair Wilson went to get his eyes checked, the doctor said he was the most near-sighted patient he'd ever encountered. Wilson has turned that gift into a peculiarly beautiful and intricate art, his paintings dense with a minute, meticulous patterning, an almost compulsive fineness of line, dot and detail that strives to push his sight, and ours to its limit. Vague graphical figures hearkening back to his zine days will sometimes emerge from the swirl as in his recent "Black Doll" (above); other paintings are entriely consumed in the patient microscopic repetition of thematically colored, faintly cellular, metastasizing shapes. All that focus and strain somehow results in painting that are light fun and alive-even if you'll be staring at them from a millimeter away. Roq la Rue Gallery 2224 Second, 374 8977. Mark D Fefer