Rosalind Bloom

Contact Information

rozartist@verizon.net

Phone: (610) 420-1733

http://www.rosalindbloom.net

Artist's Biography

Rosalind Bloom is a founding member of Assemblage Artists Collective, the region’s oldest informal artist collective, and as such, was recently interviewed by both WHYY and WDDE. She has been exhibiting independently since graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1985. Born and raised in NYC, she attended what was then the High School of Music and Art. After moving to the Philadelphia area with an MA in Art History from Columbia University she taught that subject at Rosemont College and Villanova University, eventually giving up the classroom for the studio. She has been an artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Her work is on the cover of Contemporary Poets, from Chelsea House Press, is included in Quotable Women, published by Running Press of Philadelphia, and has been published in Philadelphia Stories magazine. She is currently an active member of the Women’s Caucus for Art and the Da Vinci Art Alliance.

Artist's Statement

Collaged elements, many cut out of older abstract paintings, mutate or evolve into fictional beings, vaguely animal, bird, insect, or human. These creatures interact with one another visually and emotionally across the spaces between them, reminding us of how we too relate to one another, our fellow creatures, and the world at large. The settings in which these "conversations" occur reflect a response to, and a concern for, the natural environment. In addition to collage, transfer print techniques also play a major role in my work. Art is all about transformation and it's the process that gets us there. Where that turns out to be is often a surprise. 

Selected Exhibitions

Solo
2015
Reclamations, Da Vinci Art Allliance, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Reborn/Reconfigured, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Faces and Figures, Smile Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Generation to Generation, Main Line Unitarian Church, Wayne, PA

2005
Moment to Moment, Atlantic Cape Community College Gallery, NJ

2004
Paintings and Work on Paper, Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

2002
New Work, Gallery at the Ritz, Oaklyn, NJ

1998
Mostly Small Creatures, Art Alliance Satellite Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Paintings, Conant Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

1995
Lineal Connections, Paintings and Work on Paper, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1993
New Paintings and Drawings, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991
Paintings and Drawings, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Paintings, Lawrence Hall Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

Small Works on Paper, Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova, PA

Group
2018
Look at Us, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA and St. Asaph's Church, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Opening Up, High 5 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Personally Speaking, International House, Philadelphia, PA

Artist, Reader, Writer, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Truth and Image, International House, Philadelphia PA

Winter Juried Collection, 3rd St. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

New Now, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Spring After All, Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ

Philadelphia Stories 2018 Winter Launch, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Assemblage Artists Collective, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Nasty Women Express Themselves, Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA

Art in the Age of Injustice, Women’s Caucus for Art, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Arising, Yoko Ono, Reykjavík Art Museum, Rykjavik, Iceland

Outside In, WCA, Scotts Mills, Philadelphia, PA

Color, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

The Grass is Greener, Carpenter St. Studios, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Common Ground; Singular Vision, Assemblage at Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

From Isolation to Collaboration, Assemblage at Penn State Great Valley, PA

Celebrating 30 Years, Assemblage at Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ

Women Do, WCA, postcard show, United Nations, New York, NY
Traveling Exhibition

Medium, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Tri State Artists Equity, Franklin Commons, Phoenixville, PA

Something Cool, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2014
From Isolation to Collaboration, Assemblage Artists Collective, Henry Gallery, Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA

Artists Equity, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

Connections, Women’s Caucus for Art, Holy Family University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Artists Equity, Widener University Art Gallery, Chester, PA

Ritual, Single Sheet Book Show, 110 Church St. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Picturing Poetry & Prose, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Artists Equity, Goggle Works, Reading, PA

Envisioning Othello, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater, Philadelphia, PA

Paper Dolls, Women’s Caucus for the Arts
Traveling Exhibition

2012
Re/using our Re/sources, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD

National Collage Society, Berman Museum, Ursinus University, Collegeville, PA

2011
Little Red Traveling Journal, Women’s Caucus for the Arts

Assemblage Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ

Envisioning Shakespeare, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Women & Water, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, International House, Philadelphia, PA

Artist's Bibliography

2018
"Look at Us Exhibition Opens July 6", City Suburban News

2017
Thornton, John, "Assemblage at the Delaware Art Museum"

"Assemblage A REgional Collective of Women Artists" WDDE

Crimmins, Peter, "Delaware exhibit shines spotlight on region's oldest informal artist collective," Newsworks, May 12, 2017

2015
Friedman, Sally, "At Perkins, arts collective marks 30 years," Courier-Post, June 25, 2015

2014
Brewer, Don, "Hot" DonArtNews

2012
Schwartz, Chip, "ASSEMBLAGE WOMEN'S ARTIST COLLECTIVE" Knight Foundation

2010
Miller PhD., Debra, Da Vinci Art Alliance Warholized: The Silver Show"

Brewer, Don, "Rosalind Bloom & Sharri Jerue,“Faces and Figures”, Curated by Dr. Debra Miller" DonArtNews

2007
Fowler, Marie, Main Line Times

2004
Donohoe, Victoria, Philadelphia Inquirer

1996
Watkins, Eileen, Trenton Star Ledger

1995
Sozanski, Edward, Philadelphia Inquirer

Rice, Robin, Eyelevel, Philadelphia, PA

Donohoe, Victoria, Philadelphia Inquirer

1993
Donohoe, Victoria, Philadelphia Inquirer

Hoffman, Randi, Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA

1988
Rice, Robin, City Paper, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Donohoe, Victoria, Philadelphia Inquirer

1986
Maulfair, Jane, Allentown Morning Call

Publications

2003
Contemporary Poets, Chelsea House Books, Langhorne, PA

2000
Quotable Women, Running Press, Philadelphia, PA

Professional Experience

1997 - 1998
Workshop Instructor, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

1995
Workshop Instructor, NJ Summer Arts Institute at Rider College

1977 - 1984
Lecturer in Art History, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

1974 - 1984
Lecturer in Art History, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Fellowships

1996
Two Week Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

1994
One month fully funded residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY

Awards and Honors

2014
First Prize, Some Like It Hot, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Pat Burns Memorial Award, Envisioning Romeo & Juliet, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Painting Prize, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Painting Prize, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Directors Award, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

Painting Prize, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1992
Painting Prize, Mayfair, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1986
Purchase Award, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Rutgers, Camden, NJ

Painting Award, Juried Show, AIP Gallery, Bryn Mawr, PA

1985
Plastic Club Prize, Philadelphia, PA

1984
Benjamin Lanard Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1983
Thouron Prize in Composition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Affiliations

Assemblage Artists Collective, Founding member
Da Vinci Art Alliance
Women’s Caucus for Art

Education

1985
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Four year certificate

1966
Columbia University, New York, NY
MA, Art History

1963
The City College of New York,
BA, History, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Recent Artist Member Mentions on InLiquid