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2024 Arts In Bloom

The Arts in Bloom exhibit is always a hightlight of the HCA's year! This year is no exception. Almost 70 artists submitted artwork for consideration from 30 towns and 3 states. We received a wonderful variety of work. 

Out of 169 pieces, Juror Claudia Fiks selected 35 for display in 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 12th - May 15th. 

The HCA Art In Bloom 2024 Exhibition will be available for viewing at the HCA's Lotvin Family gallery April 23- May 23, 2023 as well as online here.
Opening Reception: Saturday May 11 at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts from 6 to 7:00pm.

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, masks are recommended but not required. Considering purchasing an artwork? Please call Operations Director Sandee Buckley at 508.435.9222 or via email: sandee@hopartscenter.org.

About the Juror CLAUDIA FIKS:
CLAUDIA FIKS is an experienced art administrator with a dedication spanning over two decades in the arts and culture sector. She currently holds the position of Director at Galatea Fine Art, an art gallery located in the SoWA Arts and Design District in Boston. Additionally, she serves as the Director at Newton Open Studios, a writer correspondent for Artscope Magazine, a guided tour at Art Fairs including Art Miami Basel, and an independent consultant for various art organizations.
Claudia's extensive career includes roles as Program Director and Development Director at the Eliot School for Fine and Applied Arts, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Society of Arts and Craft. Beyond her administrative positions, Claudia contributes as a grant panelist at the Mass Cultural Council and curates and organizes open calls and exhibitions in the Boston area.
These diverse roles showcase Claudia's transparent passion and unwavering dedication to the arts. She is firmly committed to strengthening the arts landscape by advocating for inclusion, championing creative expression, and creating abundant opportunities for widespread artistic engagement.

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Ephemeral Harmony: Jug and Pears
Ephemeral Harmony: Jug and Pears
Rita Aris
$1,500.00


Dimensions: 19 x 16 x 1.5
Medium: Ceramic relief sculpture glued to the board and framed
Year created: 2022What inspired you to make this work?: The sturdy jug, juxtaposed with the soft, perishable pears, embodies a profound contrast between permanence and transience. Yet, within this dichotomy lies a captivating harmony. The solidity of the jug provides a stable anchor amidst the fleeting nature of the pears, evoking a sense of balance and tranquility.
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Serenade of Contrasts: Flowers, Pitcher, and Bird
Serenade of Contrasts: Flowers, Pitcher, and Bird
Rita Aris
$900.00


Dimensions: 22 x 19 x 1.5
Medium: Ceramic (bas relief) sculpture
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: In this piece, I sought to explore the delicate interplay between contrasting elements within the realm of still life art. The flowers, bursting with vibrant color and life, stand in juxtaposition to the sturdy, timeless pitcher. This duality symbolizes the closeness of fragility and permanence, transience and endurance. Adding to this harmony of opposites is the inclusion of a bird, delicately perched near the pitcher. The bird, with its sense of freedom and movement, contrasts with the static nature of the pitcher and flowers.
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Early Morning July
Early Morning July
Lissa Banks
$2,200.00


Dimensions: 24 x 20
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: I had gone out early on what was to be a very hot day. With lots yet to do that morning, I just plopped my cuttings into a large glass pitcher that was sitting on the kitchen counter and left the divvying up and arranging for later. When I saw them again later day was still cool but the window was bright and backlit the flowers in such a way that I found irresistable. I snapped the photo that became my inspiration.
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Orange Tree, Kenmore Square
Orange Tree, Kenmore Square
Albert Belmont
$500.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1.75
Medium: oil on canvas
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: "Orange Tree, Kenmore Square" is one piece in a visual memoir series, depicting the colorful contrast of a small tree and city skyline against the whitewashed interior of a studio apartment kitchen in the late 1990s.
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Dog Days
Dog Days
Albert Belmont
$500.00


Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.75
Medium: oil on canvas
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: "Dog Days" is a depiction of August heat in a dark room, the contrast of the heavy air and the dog splayed out on the floor attempting to stay cool against the blowing air from a fan and flowing curtains.
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Pelican III (If Looks Could Kill)
Pelican III (If Looks Could Kill)
Patricia Bossange
$950.00


Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Medium: oil on panel
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: I was intrigued by the beauty and simultaneous fierceness and ugliness of a bird who has to compete for food, who is both predator and prey. When you observe these birds closely, you will see their battle scars. There is a beautiful strength there.
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Feel the Breeze
Feel the Breeze
Linda DeStefano Brown
$270.00


Dimensions: 15 x 15 x 1
Medium: Photography
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: This image was created in-camera using the technique known as ICM--Intentional Camera Motion. Using a slow shutter speed, I intentionally move the camera while the shutter is open. The breeze was bending the plants in the foreground set against the strong trees in the background holding their own. The movement of the camera produced an ephemeral feel to the overall image showing the contrast of delicacy and strength.
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Slate Rocks!
Slate Rocks!
Cheryl Cohen
$1,200.00


Dimensions: 30 x 9 x 3
Medium: Mixed Media Mosaic Art
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: With the natural variation of texture in the slate, I was inspired to display the feeling of vibration and movement in this piece. The reflective smalti (brightly colored Italian glass) and tumbled shell were added for additional depth, color and contrast.
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Pretty Isn't Enough
Pretty Isn't Enough
Aimee Dalrymple
$195.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Medium: Monotype print
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: This work began with the embossing of pretty flowers using a printing press. Although the natural pigments and shapes created a pretty pattern, it was too initially too tame. These were wildflowers after all! I added my own colors and patterns to enliven this unique print, to try to capture the ephemeral joy of seeing a field of wildflowers on a sunny day.
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Emerging from the Secret Garden
Emerging from the Secret Garden
Aimee Dalrymple
$195.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Medium: Monotype print
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: This print was inspired by reading the children's book The Secret Garden. The idea of discovering a beautiful overgrown garden is thrilling, unleashing imagination and play. I used actual botanical elements such as sage, thyme and roses to make this print. The precise botanical impressions interplay with expressive strokes of ink to convey the playful and excited mood.
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Apple Blossoms
Apple Blossoms
Bonnie Frederico


Dimensions: 18 x 23 x 2
Medium: oil
Year created: 2019What inspired you to make this work?: This meaningful painting holds a lot of sentimental value, connecting generations through the apple blossom photograph by my Granddaughter to the apple tree graft from her great Grandfather. I view this tree in my back yard everyday, and think of them both with fond memories.
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Harold
Harold
Patrick Goguen
$5,000.00


Dimensions: 18 x 14 x 18
Medium: hydrostone, bronze patina stain
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: This is Harold. He was a Boston terrier I had in my life with an ex... This piece was started to capture the joyous dog I had in my life for a year, before a divergence of my path of life that separated me from him.
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Table Talks
Table Talks
Mark Jarzombek
$800.00


Dimensions: 17 x 36 x 6
Medium: wood, plastic, metal screw fasteners
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: My work is based on material salvaged from construction-site dumpsters, enhanced and modified into wall-sculpture formats. This work is enhanced with colorful beads and ribbon to create a playful effect.
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Untitled
Untitled
Lindsay Jaworek
$275.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 0.75
Medium: Acrylics
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: I create artwork for my own happiness and well being and hope to bring joy to my viewer and buyers also. Everything i create is manifested to create a positive vibe. I use bright and happy colors and natural shapes to achieve this as much as possible. In this particular painting, I wanted to play around with small markings and circles, show control on a canvas that was 'splashed' with circles. I used color opposites and found that green and pink look very well together. I use circles in a lot of my work bc they have so many meanings, any painting starts with a dot, if you think about it. I plan on exploring these techniques in future paintings.
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Future Fungus
Future Fungus
Bob Kephart
$500.00


Dimensions: 16 x 30 x 10
Medium: metal and wood
Year created: 2022What inspired you to make this work?: Copper hemispheres are affixed atop brass tubes, which are mounted to a piece of found wood. The copper and brass elements resemble mushrooms and are spaced in a cluster. This sculpture represents the future state of the found wood and the decay it faces.
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The Gardener
The Gardener
JOHN LAKOV
$500.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: "The Gardener" represents my journey and the lessons my mother taught me through gardening about the transformative potential of compassion and mindful action. The vibrant and otherworldly flowers surrounding the gardener testify to the beauty that blooms from such action. It speaks to the truth that life's richness is often found in the simple acts of tending to the world around us with tenderness and care.
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Home
Home
JOHN LAKOV
$2,000.00


Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 1.5
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year created: 2023What inspired you to make this work?: "Home" is a tribute to the transformative power of nurturing amidst turmoil. My mother and I would find solace from the conflict in our home through gardening. The garden felt like a sanctuary of peace and connection. It also taught me that through the act of cultivating life, both literal and metaphorical, you can find an understanding of resilience, healing, and the beauty of growth in adversity.
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Theory of Evolution
Theory of Evolution
Kristine Laping
$1,000.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: Theory of Evolution was inspired by exciting and bittersweet personal transitions in my life this year - a nod to the possibility of the future, embracing change while honoring where I have come from.
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Winter Pines
Winter Pines
Laurie Leavitt
$575.00


Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1
Medium: Reduction Woodcut
Year created: 2018What inspired you to make this work?: On a winter walk, I was drawn to the shapes of the White Pines and the contrast created between by them and the light of the blue-gray wintery sky. I have painted many landscapes but I found it exciting and challenging to simplify the colors and shapes to create a woodcut.
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Sunset Sky
Sunset Sky
Laurie Leavitt
$375.00


Dimensions: 17 x 13 x 1
Medium: Woodcut with Watercolor
Year created: 2024What inspired you to make this work?: I have many remaining woodblocks that were used to create reduction woodcuts. Therefore much of them have been carved away but important elements remain. I like to see what new images I can create with them by printing them but adding other media also.
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