DRAWING ON THEIR IMAGINATION

Approaching the Making of Works on Paper from different starting points,
a group of contemporary artists demonstrates how versatile their favorite medium can be.

By Edward M. Gómez
Art & Antiques, May 2015, pages 88-92 and p. 94.

With an academic background in psychology and women's studies and experience in the making of ceramic sculptures, the Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum's diverse body of work has included wall-mounted objects, manhole covers and public art projects in such cities as Minneapolis and Philadelphia. For San Francisco General Hospital, she created art-glass windows measuring some 100 feet long, whose designs depict native, northern-California flowers that have been used for medicinal purposes Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that Blum's drawings of flowers in exuberant full bloom, made with pencil, colored pencils, ink and gouache on large sheets of paper, are superbly crafted…