Untitled
Untitled is an ambitious project that translates four exceptional paintings by artist Eric Blum into a collection of hand-knotted rugs, blending the contemporary essence of his artwork with the age-old tradition of rug-making.
Eric Blum’s paintings invite viewers into the margins of perception — those liminal spaces where the boundaries of form and amorphousness blur. His compositions exist between the tangible and the ephemeral, the actual and the perceived. This sense of uncertainty is deeply embedded in his methodology, where forms are often fragmented, transformed, and overlapped in layers of translucent materials such as watercolor, ink, and wax-infused silk.
Through the Untitled collection, we have captured the intricate complexity of Blum’s shapes and colors, translating them into a new language of hand-knotted rugs made from precious silk, wool, and linen yarns.
ORIGIN
India
TECHNIQUE
Hand-knotted
PILE COMPOSITION
Wool, bamboo silk, linen
THICKNESS
≈ 1 cm
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All designs
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Eric Blum
Eric Blum is an American painter born (1956) in Fresno, CA, grew up in Los Angeles and is currently based in New York City. He studied photography at UCLA and pursued a photographic career throughout his twenties.
Blum’s paintings employ transparent layers of ink-washed silk, infused with beeswax in a patchwork of forms that are both gradient and sharp-edged. They tend to be neither entirely legible nor genuinely abstract, inspired by the elusive quality of peripheral glimpses that are almost always something other than their actuality.
Exhibitions include: The Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Kresge Art Museum, Knoxville Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, and The Albright-Knox Gallery. He is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts award.