Brooklyn-based Nancy Blum has been using ‘efflorescent’ imagery for over a decade. Examples of her public installation work grace manhole covers in Seattle, and the NY metro subway station on 23rd St. She is prolific, offers beauty and wisdom with her work. Join curator and fellow Cranbrook alumni J.E. Paterak to talk with Nancy in her studio on Wednesday, September 22nd at 1:00 PM

I use botanical motifs to create images that are universally associated with growth and continuity. My deeper intent is to conjure the ‘flower’ as an active, forceful agent, subverting a culturally conditioned point of view that often deems the ephemeral and the organic as less powerful and of limited value. My ‘wonderland’ presents a view of life that pulses with expansive fecundity; hopefully, it also propels comprehension of the connectedness of all beings within the limitless energy operating throughout this world.