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.
Participating Florists:
The Bloom of Time: Flowers as Medium: Expressions of Human Emotion | on view March 23-April 12
Casa Romantica: Flowers as Muse | on view April 14-19
Petite Bouquet | on view April 21-May 3
Dallas Blooms | on view May 5-17
Colette Floral Studio | on view May 19-24
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.
Gallery
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On view April 14 through April 19
Casa Romantica: Flowers as Muse
About the Exhibition
Flowers as Muse is part of Casa Romantica’s Greenhouse residency and explores how flowers have been used in art across time. The exhibition features examples of floral imagery from different periods, along with interactive spaces where visitors can draw and create their own arrangements.
Presented during a transition week in the residency, the exhibition offers a new way to experience The Studio as both a gallery and a hands-on space.
The Greenhouse residency continues in the coming weeks with rotating floral installations by local florists.
Gallery
On view April 21 through May 3
Petite Bouquet
About the Exhibition
Through the course of her life Danielle has always been drawn to art. Whether it has been dance, photography, fashion, textile design or flowers the need to create has always been in her blood. After a decade of flower design as a career, she has largely turned to textile design in her free time. And now being recognized as an artist for this once of a lifetime opportunity she has bridged her two creative outlets. Being largely inspired by her homestead in the forest she has brought a celebration of in season plants and flowers to represent her interpretation of her daily natural landscape. Using native flora from the Cleveland National Forest was a priority in bringing this sculptural and avant garden installation to life. Enjoy!
Artist Bio
Danielle Henschel was born and raised in lovely San Clemente. She was lucky enough to be influenced by her mother who has taught her everything about being an artist in flower design. By working side by side with her for over a decade she has strived to bring traditional yet innovative ideas into the business. By using fresh, in season flowers and local growers we are able to bring the finest product into our designs. Petite Bouquet has been privileged to have Casa Romantica as a platform for events for over 20 years and we look forward to 20 more.