In Bloom: A Create! Collective Member Showcase on Artsy June 12 – July 31, 2026

I am thrilled to have my painting “Night Blooms” featured in the Create! Collective Member Showcase titled In Bloom and is on view now on Artsy. View here: https://www.artsy.net/show/create-projects-in-bloom-a-create-collective-member-showcase

“Night Blooms”, 24” H x 24” W, acrylic on canvas, 2025

In Bloom brings together 19 artists from across the Create! Collective community to explore one of nature's most resonant metaphors. This online showcase invites a loose and expansive interpretation of "bloom" across media, geography, and perspective. The result is a rich conversation between works that are literal and lyrical, botanical and deeply personal, quietly observed and boldly abstracted.

From alla prima floral studies painted in a single sitting to large-scale mixed media sculptures, from expressionist canvases rooted in grief and renewal to conceptual works woven from the fabric of family history, the artists gathered here resist any single definition of what it means to bloom. Flowers appear as subjects and symbols. Color itself becomes a gesture of opening. The garden, the meadow, the womb, the night sky, and the inner self each emerge as sites of transformation.

Participating Artists: Emily Sabree, Ingrid V. Wells, Kerry Leasure, Erin Kuhn, Nishi Patel, Soo Kim, Alina Moraru, April Baez, Jen Hintz Eggers, Joann Renner, Katelynn Noel Knick, Kristin Ruscher, Verona Peñalba, Melissa Carolyn Gile, Roshni Patel, Marcela Montalvan, Jen Haefeli, Cindy Ruskin, Yahel Yan