Alexandra Blom

Alexandra Blom is an artist, organizer, massage therapist and mother living in Oak Park, IL. She studied graphic design and policy studies with a focus in education and community development and fell in love with printmaking after completing a course at Harold Washington College in Chicago. She has since shown her screen printed work at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, WomanMade Gallery, NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, and Second State Press in Philadelphia. Her illustrations on motherhood are featured in Graceless Media. Alexandra has been a passionate organizer with the Chicago Printers Guild since 2015 serving for several years as its president and then Executive Director.

Statement
I grew up in the woods of New Hampshire. As a child I spent most of my time interacting with nature or viewing it through large picture windows from inside the house that my father built. I developed a deep connection with nature here and with self through nature. I am attracted to the details within a landscape and identify with individual objects and specimen.



Exhibitions

2021
Her Voice
Expressions Studio, Oak Park, IL

2019
Of Printbearing Age
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Chicago Printers Guild 10th Anniversary Exhibition
NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
Imádlak
Graceless Magazine

2018
Small Prints Show
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL
3rd Annual Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair
Constellation, Chicago, IL
Postock Print Show
Post Family Farm, Albany, WI

2017
Small Prints Show
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL
2nd Annual Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair
Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL

2016
1st Annual Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair
Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL

2014
Chicago Winter Bike Art Show
Ancien Cycles, Chicago, IL

2011
Underground
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009-2013
Pitchfork Music Festival
Union Park, Chicago, IL
Handmade Market
Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL