Cheri Blum Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Cheri Blum
A Quiet Bloom Amidst Textured Linen The art world often celebrates the loud and the monumental, yet the legacy of Cheri Blum resides in a much more intimate, whispered beauty. Born on September 24th, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland, Blum possessed an innate ability to find grace in the weathered and the worn. Her life, though tragically brief, was defined by a profound commitment to bringing fine art into the fabric of everyday existence.
Growing up under the artistic influence of her parents, Joseph and Joanne Novotny, she developed an early reverence for aesthetics that would later manifest in her signature style—a delicate balance between classical elegance and contemporary spontaneity. Blum’s academic journey took her from the halls of St. Mark’s High School in Delaware to Marywood University in Pennsylvania, where she earned her degree in Fine Arts in 1991. It wa…