Art critics
A unified body of work
When not completely bowled over by the initial impact of Bluma`s art one is made to think.
When ones mind eye is thus engaged,imagination comes into play and viewers interpret the imagery in accord with there understanding,experience and personal preferences.
The to departures from the customary style that are included indicate fruitful experimentation and development within her idiom-the pictorial expression light and dark simultaneous contrast,scale indicated by size and variation in imagery of complementary colours linearly confined some floating free on frontal planes,others interlocked and /or layered to indicate depth, negative space created by solid black backgrounds that unify the compositions. Ieva Bluma`s mathematically logical mind - set is obvious.Combinations of line,colour and tone define image as she plays off colour against colour and shape against shape in the painterly departures from her pseudo-geometric styles as well.
Activity and complication abounds.Clean raw colour prevails although and tertiary colours provide variety amid the hard-edge compositions. Fluid open brushwork in the two departures impart the volatile relief of action painting to an otherwise static exhibition. Ieva Bluma`s sculpture and graphic s similarly created with simplicity and strength. Signs and symbols are assembled to create a whole. In addition to the above ,her art speaks for itself in the same forthright manner that characterises her personality.Immediacy and impact is a keynote of Ieva Bluma`s oeuvre.
Ieva Bluma is decidedly not a “closet artist” At the age of 22 she appeared in European art scene in Riga, Latvia with her solo exhibition of drawings “Wonderland in colours” and a year later was invited through Danish Cultural Institute to do her solo exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark and she lives and works in Copenhagen since. In age 28 she had her solo exhibition in Montserrat gallery, 584 Broadway, New York .
Her work in all forms and mediums are now appreciated worldwide .
The spark of artistic talent that existed in four-year-old Ieva Bluma today illuminates her consciousness enabling her to create works that encompass the art field from painting, drawing, graphics, photography, sculptures, ceramics to animation and films.
All this finds Ieva Bluma on her threshold of life to experiment , develop and innovate.Her will be a career to track for a star will continue to rise.
Dorothy Roatz Myers ,New York City
New York Art Critic