This spring, Casa Romantica hosts our florist partners for a unique and creative rotating exhibition in our Studio: The Greenhouse. Each florist will transform The Studio space into a floral art gallery and bring it to life.
On view March 23 through April 12
Adrienne Moore + The Bloom of Time present: Flowers as Medium: Expressions of Human Emotion
About the Exhibition
Artist-turned-florist Adrienne Moore reflects on her fifteen years in the floral industry. Using fresh flowers and acrylic paint as her mediums, she explores how we, as a society, turn to flowers to connect with nature, one another, and the sacred.
Examining the root emotions behind the many reasons we use flowers throughout our lives, Moore elevates these gestures into the gallery space, inviting viewers to see through a lens honed by years of translating human sentiment into form. Drawing on the visual language of floristry, she creates both intimate moments and large-scale gestures that invite full immersion. Familiar formal forms are slowed down, abstracted, and re-encountered as fine art.
Viewers are invited to connect with the emotions embedded in each sentiment, engaging with flowers as carriers charged with meaning, memory, and shared human ritual, and to leave the exhibition feeling inspired and more deeply connected to flowers, floristry, and humanity.
Artist Statement
What initially felt like a detour has become the path. With a degree in Studio Art from Loyola Marymount University, I began dabbling in wedding flowers as a creative way to make a living while continuing to experiment with other mediums and artistic avenues. In 2012, I gave this work a name and called it The Bloom Of Time—a title I loved for the way it reflects an embrace of the full life cycle of a bloom as it evolves through space and time, and an appreciation for all of its stages, akin to the philosophy of wabi-sabi that has long inspired and informed my work.
The Bloom Of Time rather quickly snowballed into a vibrant business that I have willingly allowed to consume much of my creativity. In 2015, my husband, Jed, joined forces with me, helping to evolve the studio from a one-woman operation into a powerful, team-based collaboration. The lessons along the way have been incredibly valuable—we have learned about leadership, collaboration, artistic execution, consistency, and stamina—and The Bloom Of Time continues to be one of my favorite artistic expressions. It has carried us as we have started a family and grown up together, and it continues to inspire us as our capacity has expanded to include offerings for many stages of our clients’ lives—not only weddings, but the full range of sentimental occasions that beautifully arranged flowers embody better than any other medium can.
As I look ahead in my career, I hope to continue walking along the flowered path this work has revealed, while also finding new ways to integrate my everyday floral practice with the fine art space, creating greater dialogue and synergy between the two worlds.
Artist Bio
Adrienne Moore is an artist and florist based in Southern California. She holds a degree in Studio Art from Loyola Marymount University and is the founder of The Bloom Of Time, a floral studio established in 2012. What began as a practical creative outlet is beginning to evolve into an artistic practice centered on flowers as vessels of meaning, impermanence, and human connection.
Over the past fifteen years, Moore has grown The Bloom Of Time into a collaborative, team-based studio alongside her husband, Jed, creating floral work for life’s most significant moments. Drawing on this experience, her fine art practice explores floristry as a visual language, bridging the worlds of ritual, emotion, and contemporary art.