About the exhibition:

Nature reclaims what is hers. Whether by destructive or creative measures, nature repurposes. In the two-woman exhibition, Ebb & Flow, abandoned spaces become renewing entities and collage landscapes become sites of infinite possibilities.  Through photographs and mixed media collages, Ebb & Flow celebrates nature’s force and vitality. 

Sarah R. Bloom’s excursions to abandoned spaces capture growth among the rubble and hope amidst the decay of manmade structures. By exploring these places and staging her photographs, Sarah R. Bloom  forms a sense of kinship with the space and captures the comforting process of the earth reclaiming what is hers. Her photographs form a bridge to Rosalind Bloom’s work which present natural elements abstracted into beautiful collages, the very work a repurposing of the old. Rosalind Bloom’s  mixed-media collages of nature acknowledge and celebrate nature's force, its antic energy, and its mystery. She restructures and reclaimes the boundaries of the image, while demonstrating the inevitability of the earth reclaiming her space. Ebb & Flow reminds us that we are all here temporarily, and that nature will always prevail. 

About the Artists:

Sarah R. Bloom is an artist and photographer working in the Philadelphia region. Her photos have been featured in The Daily Mail, Philadelphia Magazine and The Huffington Post. Philadelphia Magazine named her Best Visual Artist in their 2015 Best of Philly Issue. Bloom's work has been exhibited in the State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Perkins Center for the Arts, The Woodmere Museum and the Biggs Museum. Sarah is a current member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Da Vinci Art Alliance, and Hidden City Philadelphia.

As an artist, I am drawn to stories of transformation. That’s why I regularly find myself skulking through abandoned buildings, seeking out the life emerging from cracks in concrete: vines crawling into windows, moss carpeting the damp ground. These new mixed-media pieces are an extension of my self-portrait photography in abandoned buildings. I transfer those photographic images onto other materials—mostly found and recycled objects. Through this process, I transform not only my original work but the object itself, repurposing it, giving it new life. We grow old. We die. We become something else entirely.

Rosalind Bloom has been exhibiting regularly since graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1985. Her work is in many public and private collections. She holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and taught Art History in local colleges and universities before giving up the classroom to be in the studio full time. Rosalind Bloom 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, Chelsea House Press, Langhorne, PA, 2003, is included in Quotable Women, published by Running Press of Philadelphia in 2000 and 2004, and in Philadelphia Stories, Winter 2018 and 2019. She was a founding member of Assemblage Artists Collective, and is an active member of Da Vinci Art Alliance, InLiquid, and the Women’s Caucus for Art.Rosalind has had solo shows at the Art Alliance Satellite Gallery in Philadelphia, Conant Gallery, Princeton, ACCC Gallery in NJ, the Da Vinci Art Alliance, the Gallery at the Ritz in NJ, Rosemont College, Villanova University, the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia, the Unitarian Church in Wayne, PA and three shows at the Zone One cooperative. 

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