Barbara Bloom Exhibition: “The Weather”

Opening on Saturday, June 6th @ 11am

Old Point Schoolhouse, 1555 Village Lane, Orient

Fridays 2pm to 5pm, Saturdays 11am to 5pm, and Sundays 2pm to 5pm

For her exhibition The Weather, Barbara Bloom has made works titled The Sea, in Part, from seascape paintings chosen from the collection of the Oysterponds Historical Society and displays them such that sea and the sky are partially obstructed from view by mats that reveal only glimpses of their drama or calm. Accompanying these are carpets in a subtle shade of gray-green-blue, hovering at varying heights above the floor. The carpets have raised-dot patterns forming Braille texts, each with a different literary description of the weather. The exhibition accentuates the complexity of seeing … leaving much to the imagination.

Barbara Bloom is an artist living in NYC and Orient who uses photography, installation, and books as means of examining issues of collecting, museology, design, taste, and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves.

Bloom has received numerous honors including the Venice Biennale Due Mille Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Getty Research Institute Fellowship. Her solo exhibitions include ones at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Los Angeles-MoCA; MoMA; The Metropolitan Museum; The International Center of Photography; The Jewish Museum, New York.

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