Barbara Bloom
...the whole grand pattern of human endeavor
For decades Barbara Bloom’s works have shown an underlying interest in decor and the grammar of display that structures meaning. Her genteel atmospherics are a form of conceptual interior decoration. In a time indebted to the strategies of rapid-fire technological communication, what could be more perverse than to surprise the eye, and slow things down, not with spectacle, but with an assemblage of minute details so understatedly controlled?
For decades Barbara Bloom’s works have shown an underlying interest in decor and the grammar of display that structures meaning. Her genteel atmospherics are a form of conceptual interior decoration. In a time indebted to the strategies of rapid-fire technological communication, what could be more perverse than to surprise the eye, and slow things down, not with spectacle, but with an assemblage of minute details so understatedly controlled?