Nancy Blum is showing a selection of her new floral drawings -works inspired by her interest in Eastern and Western visual cultures including Chinese nature studies, German botanical renderings and Islamic patterning. Using inks, color pencil, gouache and graphite, Blum suggests the vigor and seduction of life forms in the process of revelation. She describes her works as “robustly erotic like the flower itself, they purport a sexuality that is both male and female with surfaces that build layer upon layer of line and color until the space becomes dense with energy and activity. Her stated intention is to create a trance-like rhythm seducing the observer into a meditative state.

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