EventsCommon Ground#903
Aesthetic Confessions: Peter Blum Gallery
Featuring Peter Blum, David Blum, and Phyllis Tuchman, with Seth Amos
Thursday, September 21, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Gallery Founder Peter Blum and Director David Blum join Rail Editor-at-Large Phyllis Tuchman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Seth Amos.
In this Talk
Peter Blum

Peter Blum has collaborated with a wide range of artists both as a gallerist and publisher since he began his career in 1971 at Galerie Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. In 1980, after moving to New York, he founded Peter Blum Edition, where he was among the first print publishers to work with a new generation of European and American artists. In 1984, Blum co-founded PARKETT magazine, working directly with international artists and critics to create an engaging forum for contemporary art. In 1993 Peter opened his first gallery space in SoHo and has since had spaces in Chelsea, 57th Street, and currently 176 Grand Street.
David Blum

David Blum is currently the Director of Peter Blum Gallery where he has been working for 15 years. Over the years at Peter Blum, David worked as an art handler, registrar, assistant to the Director, and Associate Director. Previously he worked at Sotheby’s Auction House for two years.
Phyllis Tuchman

Critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman teaches and writes about art, particularly sculpture. She has taught at Williams College, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨