Gallery
The small gallery at the library presents works in a variety of media over the course of the year. Scheduling of exhibits is made on an annual basis, with first preference given to Hopkinton residents, then to those with Hopkinton or area connections, and also others. We also have a large glass display cabinet and a small tabletop vitrine available for items on display.
For further information contact Donna Dunlop, Library Director ddunlop@hopkintontownlibrary.org.
The small gallery at the library presents works in a variety of media over the course of the year. Scheduling of exhibits is made on an annual basis, with first preference given to Hopkinton residents, then to those with Hopkinton or area connections, and also others. We also have a large glass display cabinet and a small tabletop vitrine available for items on display.
For further information contact Donna Dunlop, Library Director ddunlop@hopkintontownlibrary.org.
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Hopkinton Town Library Gallery
November/December 2019
Rob Hirschfeld
Artist’s statement:
Prayer
What happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell, 1985
For decades I have been fascinated with the ideas of the Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett. His trilogy, The Unnameable, though absurdly difficult to read, gives me permission and invitation to explore inner and spiritual landscapes of search for meaning, beauty, peace and presence. That presence, though undeniably true, is yet impossible to name.
Increasingly, persons identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” I am a religious person by occupation, a bishop in the Episcopal Christian Church. But I am also a spiritual person who finds what is real in relationships among material phenomenon: color, texture, shape, size, line, boundary, tone. These paintings are the residue of prayers that I have wrought in my basement studio/chapel over the course of the past several years since moving to Hopkinton.
The smaller paintings are oil on segments of metal flashing purchased at Cyr Hardware on Route 103 in Warner.
The larger paintings are acrylic on canvas.
None of these pieces have titles.
November/December 2019
Rob Hirschfeld
Artist’s statement:
Prayer
What happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell, 1985
For decades I have been fascinated with the ideas of the Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett. His trilogy, The Unnameable, though absurdly difficult to read, gives me permission and invitation to explore inner and spiritual landscapes of search for meaning, beauty, peace and presence. That presence, though undeniably true, is yet impossible to name.
Increasingly, persons identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” I am a religious person by occupation, a bishop in the Episcopal Christian Church. But I am also a spiritual person who finds what is real in relationships among material phenomenon: color, texture, shape, size, line, boundary, tone. These paintings are the residue of prayers that I have wrought in my basement studio/chapel over the course of the past several years since moving to Hopkinton.
The smaller paintings are oil on segments of metal flashing purchased at Cyr Hardware on Route 103 in Warner.
The larger paintings are acrylic on canvas.
None of these pieces have titles.
