I grew up in Northern California, where the light and color had a tremendous influence on my work. My first drawings were of flowers and I still enjoy drawing and painting imaginary ones today.
What interests me about flowers are their colors, their petals and centers, and the fact that each one is so different from the next. I paint with acrylics on canvas, and my other subjects include still lifes, landscapes and portraits. I am currently working on a series of paintings called "What I Paint When I Paint About Swimming." I am also working on my children's book Stage Door, a book about the opera for children of all ages.
I studied painting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After graduating, I moved to New York City where I have lived and painted for more than 20 years. I continued my studies in drawing and painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village, where my teachers included Robert Storr.
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keeffe
selected exhibitions
2010 Urban Sanctuary Gallery, Art Within Reach, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Postcards from the Edge, 10th Annual Visual AIDS Benefit Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
2006 100 Artists 100 Watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY
2003 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
2002 Caroline Blum, 670 West End Avenue, New York, NY
2001 Mapping, Gloucester, England 2000
The Art is in the Mail(ing) Wexner Center For The Arts, Columbus, OH
Postage Stamp Design Competition, Ground Zero Studios, Washington, DC
1999 War Bulletin Board, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY.
1996 The Parrish Art Museum Thirty Fifth Juried Exhibition, curated by Lisa Phillips, Jack Tilton, and Danny McCall, Southampton, NY.
Caroline Blum, Paintings, Barnes and Noble, New York, NY.
1995 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Four Walls.
1993 11th Annual Invitational Exhibition, West Side Art Coalition Gallery, New York, NY.
1987 Caroline Blum, Recent Paintings, 1981-1987, San Mateo Public Library, San Mateo, CA.
1986 An Alumni Exhibition, 1970-1983, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
Christmas Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.
1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz,CA.
publications
1990 "New York: Museum-Size Galleries Come to SoHo," ArtInternational
1989 "Celebrating Photography,"ArtInternational
1988 "Facts of Life: Garry Winogrand, Figments of the Real World," ArtInternational
academic
1984 New York Studio School
1982 University of California, Santa Cruz. Fifth Year Certificate in Painting
1981 University of California, Santa Cruz, BA in Fine Art
clients
Bliss Living
Castlerock Design Group
Catch Can
Oopsy Daisy fine art for kids
Studio Avo
Target
fine and commercial art projects in painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage