Nancy Blum

Nancy Blum’s drawings, silkscreens and ceramic butterflies are all carefully crafted and a pleasure to look at.

Blum describes her work in this way. “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”.

The Brooklyn-based artist 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. For the San Francisco General Hospital, she completed an installation of monumental glass windows that feature her robust botanical imagery. Nancy completed other public projects in Seattle, Philadelphia and in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Nancy’s first monograph was published in 2017 and features essays, interviews and documentation of drawing, sculpture, and public artworks.