Chuck E Bloom

Ever wonder what it's like inside Chuck E's mind?

November, 2007

This show was so beautiful!
Aside from selling 22 of his paintings,
this is what Victoria Blake of the Oregonian had to say about the show:

Chuck E's in Love

When Chuck E Bloom painted the miniatures for his show at Core Gallery,
he wanted to create a world into which his viewers might fall.
With nods to Salvador Dali, Mark Ryden, and the psychedelic art found at
Grateful Dead tours, Bloom's 58 single-bristle paintings succeed.
His paintings are lush, detailed, and unsettling, miniature windows into a parallel world.

The effect is helped by the unusual gallery space itself. To see Bloom's work, viewers
must climb through a 4-square-foot hatch, entering a diminuitive room only 3 1/2 feet tall.
The viewer, on hands and knees or cross-legged, must sit nose to nose with the small, creepy canvases.

In his paintings, the smallest of which clocks in at 2 square inches, Bloom presents scenes
unlike any other. Walls dissolve into smoke, windows leak clouds and trees wear
wriste-watches. With an admirable understanding of composition and balance, Bloom
somehow manages to hold all the various elements of this strange world together,
tempting the viewer to trip, if not fall, into his fecund imagination.

The Oregonian A&E Friday, November 9, 2007