Sydney Blum (b. 1950, Oneida) is an artist living and working in Nova Scotia. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Master of Social Work from New York University. Her work has been widely reviewed in art publications such as Art Forum, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Contemporanea, Arts Magazine, Village Voice and many others. Blum has been the recipient of two Creation Grants through Arts Nova Scotia since moving there in 2010. She has taught in the Fine Art department at The New School/Parsons for 16 years and practiced as a psychotherapist for more than 30 years. Her artistic practice is inspired by phenomena such as colour vibrations, the oscillation of light, seismology, and ways that energy is experienced and measured. In 2023, Blum took part in the group exhibition Just Above Midtown at the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City.
Statement from my 2025 Show at Robertson Ares Gallery, Montreal, Canada:
“Like the edge of the wind and the colour of light. A wave of motion. Emotion. A fragment of space time. Like riding the back of a bird. Or, bending the breath. Like a sky trip. These new Icarus-Colour-Space sculptures are a sampler of the work from the last few years. They reach upward. Expanding light, toward goodness.”
– Sydney Blum
“In ABOVE AND BEYOND, UP AND AWAY, Sydney Blum presents her Icarus-Colour-Space sculptures, which translate flows of colour and light into fragmented forms that evoke the sensation of flight through space and time: a wave, a breath, the trace of wind made visible through rhythm and structure. Composed of hundreds of hand-painted cardboard squares, woven with metal wire across mobile frameworks, these works combine the precision of engineered systems with the intimacy of meticulous handcraft. Drawing on the myth of Icarus and natural phenomena such as oscillations, telluric forces, and light spectra, Blum gives material presence to an otherwise incorporeal experience of flight, navigating the space between lightness and gravity, vision and substance.”
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Gallery Representation: Robertson Ares Gallery
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Sydney Blum - Title: Mapping Icarus #5
Sydney Blum - Title: Icarus-Colour-Space 2022 prpcit-fuscturq
Sydney Blum - Title: Icarus-Colour-Space 2019 bluylw-rdylwturq
Sydney Blum - Title: Icarus-Colour-Space 2018 rdgrnylw-turqprp
Sydney Blum - Title: Icarus-Colour-Space 2017-2018 turqorg-fuscorg/fuscylw-cyorg Duette
Sydney Blum – Mapping Icarus #4
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