Jonathan Blum, Resident Park Slope Artist, Celebrates 25 years in his 5th Avenue Storefront space, a 40-year painting retrospective, and his 60th Birthday.

Blum traces the roots of his painting career back to a playful “forehead” cartoon—a self-portrait from the eyes up—created for STUFF Magazine in Boston in 1985. Since then, for over 40 years, he has steadily built a body of work that blends the whimsical with the profound, using portraiture to engage, disarm, and connect with his viewers.

One of his major themes is whimsical portraits of pets, particularly dogs!