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Artist Statement:
Leslye Bloom has always been
special. She was one of the
very few people allowed to
earn Bachelors, Masters, and
PhD degrees in Penn State?s
prestigious Art Education
program. In addition to her
traditional art studies she
branched out into computers in
1967, becoming the resident
graphic artist in ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
----------2006 Exhibitions
Solo: "Computage," at
Perspective Gallery
VA Tech, Blacksburg , Virginia
November 1 to December 6, 2006
Reception: Sunday November 5,
2006, 3 to 5 pmSolo: City
Gallery, Galax, VA; May 5-June
3, 2006
Juried: 2007 League of Roanoke
Artists Showcase
Jefferson Center Gallery,
Roanoke VA, October 1st to...
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Artist Galleries:
Miller off Main Street
Gallery, 211 Wilson Avenue,
Blacksburg VA, 24060
Prop: Robert Miller
Phone: (540) 552-6969
E Mail: ram1@usit.net
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Collections:
Permanent Collections:
Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios,
Jamaica
Miller off Main Gallery,
Blacksburg, VA
Rescue Mission Gallery,
Roanoke, Virginia
Private Collections: Patrons
list is available on request.
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BOOKS & CD-Rom's:
• "3 Irons 2" is featured in "Digital Collage and Painting" by Susan Ruddick Bloom, ISBN: 0240807057, Focal Press, Paperback, Publication Date: 2006
• "Technicolor Daydream" is one of a handfull of examples of digital art in Spotlight on Art, books and CD-ROMs, grade 8, by Dr. Rebecca Brooks, ©2005, Scott Foresman
• Student Edition: ISBN: 0328080381 Price: $53.24
This hardbound book places fine art and engaging text in your students' hands. Every lesson exposes your students to art and artists while studio activities provide them with opportunities to be artists through a variety of styles and media.
• Fine Art Gallery Builder CD-ROM: ISBN: 0328147257
• "Spring Thaw" is one of 15 works featured in the gallery section of Theresa Airey's book "Digital Photo Art," Sterling Books
ISBN: 1579905803, Format: Paperback, 208pp
Pub. Date: May 2005
ARTICLES:
www.dpandi.com August 1, 2003
""And Then We Were One" is the first digital work to win an Award of Excellence in the (Virginia Highlands Festival fine arts juried show's) history."
Blending art and technology by Tonia Moxley, The ROANOKE TIMES:
"If you’ve never heard of “thermal wax transfers.”“encaustics,” or “computage,” you‘re not alone. Neither have many of Leslye Bloom’s peers. But that didn’t stop the Blacksburg artist from winning a top prize at Abingdon’s Virginia HighlandsFestival Juried Fine Arts Exhibition in July...The process is best described to the novice as 'mixed media on steroids.'"
Ann Weinstein: Leslye Bloom combines highly technical procedures and organic energy. She uses the computer as a medium, as other artists use paint, charcoal, or the earth. But there is nothing in her prints that readily suggest the hi-tech mechanics used to make them. In addition she often resolves them with added collage, paint, and encaustic. With a play of her imagination, she can create as many singular images from her original multiples as she chooses to.
A special award for a special piece of artwork
By LESLIE HAGER-SMITH, The ROANOKE TIMES
When Blacksburg artist Leslye Bloom learned last week that her work had been recognized at the 2001 Lynchburg Area Juried Show, that was good news. But when she learned that jurors created a special award on the spot just for her, that was even better.
A piece by Bloom called “Blue Ridge Snow” was awarded “Most Innovative” in the show, which opens today at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. Bloom calls her creation a “computage.’, She created it on a computer by manipulating a digital image shot by camera; then, she added pigments by hand.
“I worked from the image and I started painting it inside the computer.... l was in Jamaica then’ and the mountains and snows turned into reds and yellows and all kinds of wonderful, vibrant’ tropical stuff,” she recounted. “When I got home, I printed out one proof. I needed to see how big it wanted to be."
“For me it’s a very rare piece” Bloom said. “It grew in a straight line, in terms of development of the piece.” Bloom was on her way to Jamaica, traveling from Roanoke to Charlotte. The triptook place between two snow-storms in late winter 1999. The image she shot from the plane window forms the basis of “Blue Ridge Snow.”
Bloom used a thermal wax transfer printer. As it turns out, it wanted to be 38 inches high and 27 inches wide, so the final product is cre-ated of 16 panels, which Bloom cut together and bonded onto hard board. To finish the piece, she overworked it with encaustic media which the artist describes like melted crayon. “The pigments are hand-ground” she said, “and they just glow.”
Bloom’s work can be viewed online at www.digitalstates.com/users/lbloom/new-work/blue-ridge.html
An opening reception for the show takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. today, at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, 1825 Thompson Drive (804) 846-3804.
The Roanoke Times,New River Current
Sat. February 24, 2001, pp.3 &6.
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Charles Goolsby (Washington County News, August 2, 2000 • Page 1B):
"Leslye Bloom of Blacksburg explores her thoughts and feelings through the contemporary medium of digital art. Her manipulated photographs appear to have been printed in many layers. This creates intensity in the color. In addition, the method provides the viewer with multiple vantage points in contrast with the traditional perspective of the western landscape. Her computage “Hot Dry” has a surface that simultaneously appears old and new.
Feature Article: “The Computer Made Her Do It”
by Donna Alvis banks, The Roanoke Times, Thursday, June 22, 2000. pp. NRV 3, 14 (“Ja-maica Jazz” was lead image)
“The results are striking images, often abstract or impressionistic, that make viewers look critically and contemplatively.”
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Ed Falco, newiver journal, 1998:
With this number of the New River we manage for the first time to bring a visual artist onto our digital pages. Leslye Bloom's work is not hypertext, of course. It's visual art created through experimentation with digital technology. It is included here because it provides another piece of the answer to the question posed in the first number of the New River: what kind of art will be made with hypertext and hypermedia? The distinction, in any case, between visual art and hypertext has always been a complex issue. Hypertext is not another manifestation of the linear narrative, with its roots in the oral traditions of storytelling. Hypertext is something different, more closely connected to the first scratchings on cave walls than to the first tales told around the fire. Art like Leslye Bloom's, arising out of the digital image, seems exactly appropriate, then, to the content of the New River.
Working with, among other soft- and hardware, Photoshop, GraphicConverter, Color IT!, Pagemaker, Kodak Picture Transfer Application, Photoenhancer for Kodak, Posterworks, a Kodak digital camera, a Power PC with a monster motherboard and graphics accelerator card, Zip
and MO drives, a Nikon slide scanner, LA Cie color scanner, and a flat iron, Bloom creates unique final images of intriguing depth and complexity. In the stained-glass-window-like panel of Tranquility, for example, Bloom uses her various technologies to add sensuality and texture to what would otherwise be an interesting photo montage, making it something different, a digitized merging of painting and photography.
I find much to admire in these pieces: the way, for example, under an umbrella of petals the crane looms above a solitary figure on the shoreline in Tranquility.
Or the way Ms. Bloom's hand subtly disappears, in Me with Jamaica Apple, to be replaced by the silk screen of her hand rendered on the T-shirt she's wearing.
Or the way the very air seems scratched and marred around the ominous black cenotaph in Salutamus.
These are pieces that reward your attention.
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