Hollywood, rock and roll and reality TV are all subject to artist Jeremy Blake’s critical eye in Wild Choir: Portraits by Jeremy Blake. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, where the show opens tomorrow, calls his work “psychological pop portraits” — trippy digital videos depicting the lives of cultural figures. Flashing images, voice overs, music and explosions of color are typical in the three videos on display — 2003’s Reading Ossie Clark, 2005’s Sodium Fox, and the unfinished work Glitterbest.

For Blake, this show was to have been a homecoming — he grew up in the D.C. area before attending the California Institute of the Arts, and subsequently living in Los Angeles and New York. He would have been artist-in-residence at the Corcoran this fall, but Blake died over the summer at age 35. His death garnered a lot of attention, and a fear about this exhibit is that the circumstances surrounding it will overshadow his innovative artwork.

Blake’s “moving paintings” combine representational and abstract imagery, and his attempts to bridge painting, photography, film and computer art. The results are pieces of astounding depth — each work is a narrative with symbolic imagery and layers of meaning. They run on a circular loop, without beginning or end, adding to the disorienting nature of the video.