Dahlia (Colón; matronymic maiden name) Bloomstone (b. 1995) is a Puerto Rican/American artist and Hunter College MFA (2022, NY) graduate with a BFA from Bard College (2018, NY). Bloomstone has presented with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) (NY), New Museum/Rhizome (NY), Queens College (NY), Bard College (NY), Hauser & Wirth (NY), and the University of Texas at Austin (TX), among others. She was a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture fellow in 2023 and an Elaine G. Weitzen 2024-2025 studio participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP).

Dahlia has developed a body of work rooted in video and internet research, which has evolved to encompass animation, social practice, video games, film, and performance. However, her focus for the past three years has been on video games. In her practice, she thinks through social value, respectability, and moral regulation. She considers the politics around certain technologies, which function as stand-ins for deeper cultural and digital inheritances. Dahlia is currently most interested in "labor aesthetics" - in conjugating the surrealities of affective work. She is a relational fable-teller in dialogue with concurrent socio-cultural issues and is constantly renegotiating her relationship to these concepts within moralizing online discourse.

Unless the Outcome is Income includes a new animated video piece, a playable video game, and installation elements. 

Unless the Outcome is Income: Roblox is a Roblox game that engages with the history and politics surrounding the popular children’s gaming platform. The game considers and engages with Roblox’s new content guidelines, where a game is 17+ if it has romantic themes, including non-sexual expressions of love or affection, or if it is considered a sensitive issue defined as “a current sensitive social, political, or religious issue that is both polarizing and emotionally charged.” The game is framed around ideas and language surrounding work, survival, and capital: “taking your work home with you” or “becoming your work,” using different visual signifiers like damask patterns or a domestic gamer chair.

This exhibition includes themes of erotic labor, economic survival, and geopolitical conflict. Viewer discretion is advised.

This exhibition will be on view in the Whitebox Gallery (Hewitt Hall, Room 30) from November 4 through December 5, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am to 2pm. This exhibition will be closed for Thanksgiving Break from November 25 through November 30.