Caitlin Blomstrom

Caitlin Blomstrom is an artist and curator living and working in Nashville, TN. She creates paintings and sculptures that exist to challenge the viewer’s perception. Her work is inspired by her surroundings and she interprets them by creating art objects that re-contextualize those every-day encounters.

“After a wedding or special event, I would find the most exquisite and labor-intensive arrangements dumped into trash bins around the building. Some of these appeared perfectly preserved still holding their original compositions while others were actively decaying. Each encounter left me struck by the unexpected beauty but also a feeling of sadness, a reminder of our inevitable mortality. Now, I notice “trash flowers” everywhere, in both public and private spaces. At their lightest, these paintings are meant to be humorous and at their heaviest they exist to contemplate the passage of time, decay and death.”