Where can we see your work?

I exhibit my work around the city, state and nation. Locally, my work can be seen occasionally at 62 Doors or biennially at Northwest Arts Center’s Minot State Art Faculty Exhibition. Otherwise you’ll have to coordinate a studio visit or visit micahbloom.com.

Do you have work for sale?

Many of my works are for sale, so if you see something that strikes your fancy…

In what media do you work?

I move pretty freely amongst media in the visual arts. Whether it is painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking or film. I’m interested. I completed my graduate study in painting and drawing at the University of Iowa, but my output has been quite eclectic since.

How would you describe your style?

Style is a troublesome category. I am much more comfortable discussing methods of my approach than style. I might say “eclectic,” but maybe “out-of-style” would be the descriptor that my kids would give me.

Who would you say have been influences on your work?

On each project, I am influenced by different sources — the news, my students at Minot State, my children, art history, the Bible, my friends, my experiences, contemporary art, my colleagues, my parents, etc.

Are there particular themes you like to explore in your work?

Most of my work comes from living on earth — seeing, wondering, discovering. Visual art helps me to understand my relation to everything else. To pose questions and think through ideas and physical phenomena. There are some themes that run through the work as I am often more interested in subtlety than accessibility, simplicity than profundity. I tend to create in small, intimate sizes that prefer the everyday to the monumental.

What do you most enjoy about the creative process?

I delight in the fact that in art there are no rules, but sometimes that is also a problem. Since there are no rules to indicate that a work is successful in communicating an idea or expressing an emotion, I can easily run amok with self-doubt. This is often the artists challenge — to come out of the known and create something unknown. Seeking the unknown is a risk, a joy and frustration. All told, the joy outweighs the frustration, and I thank God for the luxury of time and space to make things.