Resa Blatman

Blaze

Oil, acrylic, colored pencil on mylar

About the artist

Resa Blatman

Resa Blatman is a Massachusetts-based visual artist who works with varying media including large-sized, wall-mounted art installations, mixed-media paintings, and drawings. Her primary studio practice consists of commissions and public art projects that speak to her reverence for nature. She currently has several works at the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition “Bats!” in Salem, Massachusetts, open through July 2024. Resa has permanent, public art installations at several locations, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass; the City of Hope Lennar Foundation Cancer Center, California; Denver Health, Colorado; Texas A&M University, Texas; Somerville Hospital, Somerville, Mass.

Her paintings are in collections at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia; Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Mass; Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Mass; Twitter; Fidelity; Hilton Hotel; The WH Ming Hotel, Shanghai, China; and within the UAE and Europe. She exhibits her work at universities and art institutions throughout the U.S., and her work has been reviewed in publications including The Boston Globe, Ecoconsciousness, Boston Society of Architects, Art New England, SupersonicArt, Booooooom, among others. She received her MFA from Boston University and her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Resa is currently an artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work is represented by Childs Gallery, Boston.