Confluence

Fountain Street Artist Members Exhibition Curated by Tracy Spadafora

Southborough History & Arts Center at Fayville Hall

October 30, 2026–January 3, 2027

Confluence marks the meeting point of distinct creative paths, where individual perspectives, experiences, and artistic practices come together. Featuring a selection of participating Fountain Street Artist Members, this contemporary group exhibition explores how separate traditions, personal histories, and approaches to making intersect, overlap, and find common ground in a shared space.

About the Exhibition

Across painting, photography, and mixed media, the works in Confluence reflect a range of materials, processes, and visual languages. Each artist brings a unique perspective shaped by personal experiences, individual interests, and ongoing creative explorations. In dialogue with one another, these distinct approaches create unexpected connections and points of resonance, revealing how meaning can shift and expand when individual works are experienced collectively.

Like rivers converging, the creative practices represented in Confluence retain their individual character while contributing to a larger, evolving whole. The exhibition invites viewers to consider the relationship between individuality and community, difference and connection, and the many ways personal stories contribute to our shared contemporary experience.

About the Curator

Tracy Spadafora is a contemporary artist based in Massachusetts. She earned her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from Boston University in 1989 and her MFA in Painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1995. Spadafora has exhibited extensively throughout New England, including solo and two-person exhibitions at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Aidron Duckworth Museum, and Concord Center for Visual Art. Her work has also been presented at the Danforth Art Museum, Fitchburg Art Museum, ArtsWorcester, and Fountain Street Gallery. She has taught painting, drawing, and encaustic techniques for decades and has led workshops at institutions and organizations throughout the Northeast, including the International Encaustic Conference.

Gallery

Currents & Convergence

These works explore movement and change through flowing forms, shifting light, and the rhythms of the natural world. Whether through abstraction or photographic observation, water and weather become more than subjects: they suggest the passage of time, the instability of perception, and the continual exchange between forces that shape a landscape.

Presence & Interior Worlds

Moving between observed reality and the imagined, these works consider how we inhabit spaces, encounter others, and construct meaning from our surroundings. Figures, interiors, and suggestive environments become sites of psychological presence, where the familiar can feel intimate, mysterious, or unexpectedly transformed.

Fragments & Associations

Built through the layering, rearranging, and recontextualizing of images and materials, these works bring disparate elements into new relationships. Fragments of architecture, everyday life, organic forms, and familiar references become open-ended narratives. Meaning emerges through inviting viewers to connect separate visual clues and consider how experience is remembered, altered, and reconstructed.

Experience Confluence

Presented by Fountain Street Gallery in partnership with the Southborough History & Arts Center.