CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER

Fountain Street Artist Members Exhibition Curated by Sarah Alexander

Hopkinton Center for the Arts

June 2–June 25, 2026

A contemporary group exhibition borrowing its title from Lewis Carroll’s famous phrase, the exhibition embraces the strange, layered, and unexpected — where images fracture, narratives shift, and materials take on new meanings through juxtaposition and process.

Across painting, collage, photography, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition considers curiosity not as certainty, but as a way of moving through the unknown.

About the Exhibition

Inspired by the evocative phrase “curiouser and curiouser,” the exhibition explores themes of heightened curiosity and the experience of encountering the unexpected. While the phrase suggests an intensification of wonder, it also calls to mind the familiar image of the white rabbit, signaling moments when situations become increasingly strange, perplexing, or surreal.

Presented at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Curiouser & Curiouser connects Fountain Street Artists with a broader community, inviting viewers into a diverse range of artistic interpretations. The works on view examine scenarios that span from puzzling mysteries to unfolding events that challenge assumptions and defy expectations.

Through a wide array of media and perspectives, the exhibition encourages audiences to embrace curiosity and engage with art that surprises, intrigues, and provokes reflection.

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About the Curator

Sarah Alexander is a contemporary mixed-media artist whose work spans painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited extensively in New England and internationally and is held in numerous private collections. She has been reviewed and featured in publications including the Boston Globe, Art New England and North Light Books. Alexander maintains an active studio and teaching practice in Massachusetts, encouraging experimentation, intuition, and the development of a personal visual language.

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Thresholds

Works in this section explore moments of transition, ambiguity, and transformation. Through atmosphere, abstraction, and shifting forms, these artists create spaces suspended between memory and place — where images emerge, dissolve, and continuously evolve through perception and experience.

Fragments & Echoes

Through collage, layered imagery, and accumulated material histories, the artists in this section examine memory as something constructed, altered, and continually reassembled. Drawing from archival sources, repetition, and fragmented visual language, these works explore the emotional resonance that remains within traces, remnants, and acts of reconstruction.

Fictional Spaces

The artists in this section construct imagined worlds shaped by psychological tension, dreamlike narrative, and altered perception. Through surreal environments, symbolic imagery, and cinematic compositions, these works blur the boundaries between reality and invention, creating spaces that feel both uncanny and emotionally charged.

Material Transformations

Centered on process, gesture, and material experimentation, the artists in this section explore the physical language of making through abstraction and form. Layered surfaces, constructed elements, and tactile textures reveal works shaped through accumulation, transformation, and an ongoing dialogue between artist and material.

Experience CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER

Presented by Fountain Street Gallery in partnership with the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.