Resa Blatman is a Somerville, MA based visual artist who specializes in contemporary projects inspired by nature and climate change. Her work is painting and drawing-based and offers the viewer a multi-faceted experience via the undulations and movement of the paint and three-dimensional form, creating an opportunity for contemplation and a deeper look at the overwhelming changes to our planet.

The delicate and ominous drawings, captivating installations, and lush paintings evolve through the documentation of occurrences such as bird migration; melting glaciers and rising tides; coral bleaching; oil spills and plastic ocean pollution; etc., and their effect on – and transformation of – our landscape and natural resources. To reflect this concept visually, the installations are often littered with forms that mimic coral, seaweed, and flora – they are cut, poured, layered, and constructed into swirling three-dimensional waterscapes. There's a tangibility to this work in the way its juts forth from the wall, creating a metaphorical sound like the frenzied violence of a mighty glacier calving and crashing into the ocean. The drawings feature stunning, yet dying coral reefs on dark, ominous backgrounds. In the paintings, there are cold weather animals trying to survive in hot, swampy environments and walls of the ocean water swallowing the landscape. This tragic reality is also reflected through a narrative of dramatic skies, invasive plants, and anxious, yet lovingly painted birds.

Resa has an MFA in painting from Boston University and a BFA in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She exhibits her work at galleries, colleges, universities, and museums throughout the US and accepts commissions for site-specific installations.  "We are living in uncertain times – a growing 'water world' with more droughts and dwindling fresh drinking water, as our need for it arises. My work traverses the underbelly of the sublime and the beautiful, and the future of an Earthly dystopia."