A sculptor in Tatamagouche, N.S. is about to be featured in a special exhibit in New York that honours decades of female artists in the city.

Sydney Blum's artistic career began in New York in the 80s, where she was part of a group called ‘The Material Girls,’ for their use of new and different materials.

Now, Blum's portrait is about to be featured in a special exhibit south of the border, celebrating 100 women artists,

“I was very honored, because there are some extraordinary women in that group and I mean, I get goose bumps thinking about it,” says Blum.

Blum’s work focuses on energy and color. She creates unusual pieces combining geometry and art.

“I like the hard edges, but I also like the irregularity when you start to distort it, but you still have the comfort of that basic elemental form,” says Blum.

Blum's work was featured in a solo show last summer, where visitors were drawn to the odd geometric forms, and the spaces they create.

“Little kids would stand under them and look up, but they were very entranced by it, and pulled in, which is what I wanted and really felt like they were in another world in there when they were looking in,” says Blum.

Blum is also working on a series of drawings, which she calls clunk geometry.

Her husband, Mark Schwartz, is also an artist and he admires her work greatly.

“I enjoy the color. I think it's wonderfully playful,” says Schwartz.

The New York exhibit featuring Blum's portrait will open on March 3, and although she's been to the Big Apple many times, unfortunately Blum says she will not be able to make it this time.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Dan MacIntosh