Alexandra Blom is an illustrator and printmaker drawing inspiration from nature. She has a BA in graphic design and has maintained an artistic practice since childhood. She fell in love with printmaking after completing a course at Harold Washington City College of Chicago and has since shown her work in Chicago at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, WomanMade Gallery, NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, and at Second State Press in Philadelphia. She served the Chicago Printers Guild for over five years as president of the board 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 the large picture windows from inside the house that my father built. I am attracted to the details within a landscape and identify with individual objects and specimen as a way to explore existential quandaries, human experience, and nature’s design.



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