Nancy Blum
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.
Nancy Blum Black Drawing ###- from ongoing series Colored pencil & graphite on paper 9”x12”
Nancy Blum Black Drawing 116- from ongoing series Colored pencil & graphite on paper 9”x12”
Nancy Blum Black Drawing 113- from ongoing series Colored pencil & graphite on paper 9”x12”
Nancy Blum Black Drawing 190- from ongoing series Colored pencil & graphite on paper 9”x12”
Nancy Blum Black Drawing 180- from ongoing series Colored pencil & graphite on paper 9”x12”
Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum is well known for her public art commissions. For New York City’s MTA Arts in Transit program she recently created a suite of large-scale botanically themed mosaics. Located at the historic 28th St. Station, they celebrate flowering plants that can be found in the nearby Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Perennial Collection. Blum received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and has since become a widely sought-after visiting artist, critic, and lecturer at universities nationwide.