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Arts In Bloom 2021

The Arts in Bloom exhibit is always a hightlight of the HCA's year! This year is no exception. Over 70 artists submitted artwork for consideration from 35 towns and 5 states. We received a wonderful variety of works from Experimental to Classical Realism and everything in between. 

Out of 178 pieces, Juror Tatiana Flis selected 35 for display in the this year's exhibition. Six pieces were identified for an award and will be honored with fresh flower arrangements designed the Hopkinton Garden Club members that will be on display May 7th - May 14th. 

The HCA Art In Bloom 2021 Exhibition will be available for viewing at the HCA's Lotvin Family gallery May 7 - June 24, 2021 as well as online here.
Opening Reception: May 7th at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts from 6 to 7:30pm.

The HCA gallery hours for public viewing: Monday - Fridays 9 am - 7 pm and Saturdays 9 am - 2 pm. Guests must observe safety protocols when visiting the gallery, including wearing a face mask. If you wish to bring a group of 6 or more people to view the exhibit, please contact the HCA in advance to schedule a group visit. 
Considering purchasing an artwork? Please call Operations Director Sandee Buckley at 508.435.9222 or via email: sandee@hopartscenter.org.

About the Juror Tatian Flis:
Graduating from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, with a Masters in Sculpture, Flis is the Assistant Director of Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, Program Administrator and Arts Festival Director at Boston College, and she currently serves on the Board at the Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA. Flis believes that creative expression is fundamental to the human experience. Art is the medium through which human beings engage with their higher selves to reach their full potential. Her personal work has been featured in Artscope Magazine, Art New England, and reviewed in The Boston Globe. Tatiana’s work is shown extensively throughout the United States and is collected internationally. She works from her studio in Millbury, MA.

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The Healing Bench
The Healing Bench
Nancy Best
$150.00


Dimensions: 12 x 15 x 1
Medium: photography
Year created: 2019
What inspired you to make this work?: This beautiful scene in a small town in Switzerland was calling my name, I could have sat and enjoyed the serenity all day.
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Absolute Zero
Absolute Zero
Zachary Best
$200.00


Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 0.5
Medium: Photography
Year created: 2021
What inspired you to make this work?: Being forced to adventure in the outdoors this year also meant being forced to push the boundaries of what I thought I could hike in order to keep things interesting. This hike was on Franconia Ridge this winter, and it was easily colder than zero degrees Fahrenheit along the ridgeline. The cold and the pain in my legs was well worth it though as it was experiences like this that refreshed my mind this year and broke up the cycle of either being at my lab bench or being stuck in my house.
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Downtown April Evening II
Downtown April Evening II
Patricia Bossange
$750.00


Dimensions: 12 x 15 x 1
Medium: Oil on panel.
Year created: 2021
What inspired you to make this work?: The light, clouds, and sky in April are, I think, the best of any time of year, except perhaps for October. It makes even your hometown magical.
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Downtown I
Downtown I
Patricia Bossange
$80.00


Dimensions: 10 x 22 x 1
Medium: Oil on panel
Year created: 2021
What inspired you to make this work?: Lovely April light, plus the windows look like sad, kind eyes.
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Your Daily Dose of Fiber
Your Daily Dose of Fiber
Marion Buricatu Thery
$900.00


Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
Medium: newspaper collage and oil painting on masonite
Year created: 2014
What inspired you to make this work?: This piece was influenced by my son Thomas, who was having a lot of fun stacking the fruits in our kitchen into a pyramid! This everyday scene happening right in front of me brought some sudden inspiration… And that’s when I called Jen, who is an amazing photographer with a great eye for staging. When I asked her to help to create a fruit still life, I wanted to paint something from my daily life, something natural, and not so formally staged it looked like it belonged in a museum. She knew just how to create the arrangement, and voila! I really enjoyed the artistic collaboration between photographer and painter. The Figaro magazine’s blue banner was a perfect companion to the blue tones of the pineapple leaves. I love linking my French and American worlds, and so the Figaro headlines about the White House – “la Maison Blanche” – was a nice fit. The stamps in the background evoke the idea of travel, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, as I did with my family 13 years ago. These particular stamps are from the care packages that my mother sent from France; it was a wonderful way of staying connected to family and remembering our favorite things from France.
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On a Plain (Glaciation)
On a Plain (Glaciation)
Kathline Carr
$1,800.00


Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 1
Medium: oil on wood panel
Year created: 2018
What inspired you to make this work?: looking at seasons in a landscape
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Gaist Selbst
Gaist Selbst
Michael Christie
$333.00


Dimensions: 9 x 12
Medium: Acrylic
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: JOY
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Alternative realease
Alternative realease
Michael Christie
$333.00


Dimensions: 12 x 9
Medium: Acrylic
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: To Continue
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Meadow Rolls
Meadow Rolls
Michael Christie
$222.00


Dimensions: 9 x 12
Medium: Ink and PEN
Year created: 2019
What inspired you to make this work?: Time
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Liminal Encounter
Liminal Encounter
Kristin Conant
$600.00


Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 1.5
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint
Year created: 2021
What inspired you to make this work?: Humans, whales and dolphins all seem to have great curiosity about one-another. I was fortunate to get to spend many years living and sailing on a boat. During those decades, I had numerous encounters with whales and dolphins, and always wanted to learn even more about them. This paint is a fantasy painting about having a personal encounter with a whale while out in a dingy.
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Room Beyond
Room Beyond
Maura Conron
$800.00


Dimensions: 18 x 18
Medium: Archival Inkjet print, 2/6
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: COVID lockdown meant any outing meant it was an adventure.
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Drummond_EveryMeasureofItself _2
Drummond_EveryMeasureofItself _2
Deborah Drummond
$495.00


Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Year created: 2021
What inspired you to make this work?: This work was influenced by the beginning of feeling more hopeful using shape and color relationships that interplay and contrast.
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Untitled
Untitled
Jonah Feintuck
$120.00


Dimensions: 4 x 6
Medium: 35mm Film
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: My work is primarily in the realm of sculpture, however I had learned how to take film photography while I was an undergraduate student. I was looking for ways to continue to express myself creatively throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, along with attempting to utilize other non-3D mediums to create work that related to my "usual" sculptural work. A lot of my art is very aggressive, jarring, and violent, while dealing with aesthetics of objects and forms that show signs of abandonment. The composition also contains a significant amount of light that contrasts with the aggression of the subject. The juxtaposition between softness and hardness; light and dark; aggression and calmness; made the image more striking and adds to the intensity.
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Untitled
Untitled
Jonah Feintuck
$120.00


Dimensions: 4 x 6
Medium: 35mm Film
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: My work is primarily in the realm of sculpture, however I had learned how to take film photography while I was an undergraduate student. I was looking for ways to continue to express myself creatively throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, along with attempting to utilize other non-3D mediums to create work that related to my "usual" sculptural work. My sculptural practice primarily involves the usage of found objects, with my specific preference being objects that have been rusted, decayed, or show signs of abandonment. This photograph of an abandoned house I found in the woods speaks to that aesthetic of "forgotten objects". It is both dual in function as the house itself could be treated as a kind of sculpture whereas the photograph is the document.
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I Sea Flowers Everywhere
I Sea Flowers Everywhere
Rosie Finn
$1,500.00


Dimensions: 28 x 22 x 6
Medium: Driftwood (wall hanging)
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: My inspiration comes from enjoying nature & walks on the beach collecting driftwood treasures.
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Portugal
Portugal
Bonnie Frederico


Dimensions: 25 x 21 x 1
Medium: Watercolor Batik
Year created: 2018
What inspired you to make this work?: i instantly felt a spark when i found this spot on a vacation to portugal, i knew immediatly that i had to make a watercolor batik
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Nothing Says Spring---Like Lilacs
Nothing Says Spring---Like Lilacs
Carol Fries
$175.00


Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 0.5
Medium: oil
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: Cut lilacs last such a short while, i had to immortalize them.
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Fear No Evil
Fear No Evil
Richard Germaine
$400.00


Dimensions: 18 x 24
Medium: Oil
Year created: Spring, 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: A desire to present the promise of Psalm 23 in a painting.
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Plum Tulips
Plum Tulips
Barbara Hawes
$900.00


Dimensions: 30 x 26 x 1
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Year created: 2016
What inspired you to make this work?: Please see statement attached to piece #1 (Crystal Hermitage Gardens) re pertinent to this period in my life when I was traversing deep loss- my dad passing on, as well as separation from a long-time partner. Going into the painting studio became my place of solace, an anchor holding me to the shore, lest I get swept away in the undertow of emotions I could neither control nor explain away through the rational mind. The sheer act of applying these vibrant colors to the canvas became the very prescription that eventually transformed my sorrow and despair to feeling joyful, buoyant.
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Directions Before GPS
Directions Before GPS
Madeleine Lord
$1,800.00


Dimensions: 60 x 32 x 22
Medium: welded found steel
Year created: 2020
What inspired you to make this work?: In Covid the metal dump was closed, I worked with the scraps at hand and my work became more abstract.
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