Curated by Jenny Jaskey

Andrea Blum has worked at the intersection of art, design, and architecture for over forty years. She began making temporary installations in the mid-1970s, and in the decades since, she has created numerous public artworks for cities and universities across the United States and Europe. These include plazas, parks, mobile homes, libraries, an aviary, and sets for a Paris opera. Her exhibition designs for museums and galleries reconfigure how viewers perceive familiar spaces and one another. Blum’s sculptures frequently place bodies in proximity without the ability to touch. A tension between autonomy and intimate connection runs throughout the works.

In BIOTA, Blum presents an exhibition environment with works from 2008–2024 that center on  constructions of the natural world and relations between humans and non-humans. These include a series of digital images that simulate organic matter, experiments with furniture-like objects for interspecies observation, and videos of wildlife in which animal desire parallels our own. In these psychologically charged works, Blum uses shifts of perspective and scale to explore entanglements of the natural and social realms.

In early 2025, Hunter College will publish an illustrated monograph that covers Andrea Blum’s work from the 1970s to the present. Designed by Joseph Logan Studio, it will include texts by Catherine Grout, Jenny Jaskey, Pam Lins, Michael Lobel, Sarah Oppenheimer, and a conversation with the Artist and Allan Schwartzman.

Hunter College Art Galleries
205 Hudson Gallery
New York, NY

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