Zevi Blum: Retrospective

Opening Reception, Friday, September  4, 5-8 pm &
Friday October 2, 5-8 pm (with artist present)

Talk Print with Zevi Blum, Oct. 5, 6-8 pm

See Zevi Blum's website here.

See the review written by Wylie Schwartz about this exhibit: www.ithacatimes.com/main.asp

Before moving to his new home in California, Zevi Blum lived and taught in Ithaca for nearly fifty years. He was born in Paris in 1933 and received a Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University in 1957. Since earning his degree Blum has taught at both Ithaca College and Cornell. Blum has also exhibited throughout the United States, Germany, and Switzerland. His Retrospective will be on display at the Ink Shop from September 4 through October 27, with an opening reception held on Friday, September 4. A month later Blum will be joining the Ink Shop in person for Gallery Night on Friday, October 2. On the following Monday, October 2, Blum will discuss his work at the Ink Shop. Blum’s line etchings deal with the strange and the unusual. Each piece is made up of incredible detail; every mark on the plate is given the same painstaking attention. Human ingenuity gone amiss is a prevalent theme in his work. James Hall, from Rochester’s Oxford Gallery, said of Blum’s etchings,”[His] compositions present us a delightful panoply of characters. They belong to no age and to every age. They are both fanciful anachronisms and universals in the comédie humaine.