Bettina Blohm
Bettina Blohm is a New York and Berlin based painter.
In over 30 years she has developed a vocabulary of shapes and gestures, a limited set of tools with which she works, concentrating on pattern, repetition, rhythm, scale and color. Working in a predominantly monochrome mode, with shifting lines of varies thickness, Blohm works slowly to open up a kind of intermediate space. She builds her image layer upon layer, often wiping off entire sections, to create interiors that gradually impart a sense of urgent intensity beneath seemingly playful exteriors.
Blohm’s most recent works on paper, completed in Berlin, hint at geometry, albeit rendered with a free hand rather than precise tools. Lines slip, and tilt or bend the space, the works have an appearance of being in flux, of unstable geometry.
Bettina Blohm was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1961. She moved to New York in 1984, establishing a second studio in Berlin in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include gallery Kajetan, Berlin (2020), Museum Haus am Waldsee im Bikini (2018), Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne (2017), Gallery Marc Straus, New York (2014). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Kunsthalle Bremen, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern. Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, among others.
Excavations, 2021, Acrylic, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Excavations, 2021, Acrylic, charcoal on paper, 19 ¾ x 24 ¾ inches
Excavations, 2021, Acrylic, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Fuzzy Logic, 2020, Acrylic, gouache, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Berlin Blue, 2019, Acrylic, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Mosaikformen, 2018, Acrylic, gouache, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Mosaikformen, 2018, Acrylic, gouache, charcoal on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches
Mosaikformen, 2017, Acrylic, gouache, charcoal, white pencil on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ¾ inches