Currently on view until April 4th, 2026 at Roq La Rue in Seattle, Washington is artist Dana Blume's solo exhibition, "Dream Cast."

Blume’s work is a refreshing take on modern painting- riotous tableaus of hazy amorphous shapes and monster-y characters in a loose, rounded style and distinctive palette. Inspired by the assorted explorations of adolescence - the work explores theme of earnest bumblings through the passage of adulthood- burgeoning sexuality, destructive hijinks, confusing emotions, put down with a sense of humor and compassion. Works start as scribbled drawings meant to capture and emotion or feeling- then transcribed into vibrant layers of paint, built up to contain a sense of fluid gravity and shimmering rotundness. 

Dana Blume has a M.F.A. from The University of Washington and serves as an adjunct instructor for drawing and painting there. He has exhibited in Washington, California, Singapore, England, and Italy.