2010 – 2011 Season Press Release
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Patrick McDonough: reck room
September 10 – October 9, 2010
Patrick McDonough will assemble mementos of the American rec room in an exhibition that investigates the role of play, domesticity and interaction in both contemporary art and life. A custom made and fully functional foosball-and-ping-pong hybrid game table will serve as the centerpiece to reck room. McDonough will also present etched mirrors that reference beer advertisement taxonomy, custom designed rugs and a Coors Light^® slideshow.

Adam de Boer: Finca
October 15 – November 13, 2010
Finca features a new series of narrative paintings based on artist Adam de Boer’s trip to a friend’s finca — or farm — in Villeta, Colombia. De Boer creates formulas inspired by Colombian Vallenato music that inform both the palette and composition of the works. The paintings explore the quotidian themes of religion, family and behaviors tied to socioeconomic class through an intimate glimpse into one family’s life in Colombia.

Michael Dax Iacovone & Billy Friebele: FREE SPACE: A Communal & Interactive Survey of Washington, DC
November 9 – December 4, 2010 (at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library)
As a part of FotoWeek DC, Michael Dax Iacovone and Billy Friebele will present a participatory photo and video project that invites visitors to become collaborators. The exhibition will be presented off-site in collaboration with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street NW, directly across the street from Flashpoint. The project investigates DC’s city plan created by Pierre Charles L’Enfant. The work presented in FREE SPACE will be generated by an open request from the artists to the community to gather photographs from each quadrant of the District.

Heather Bursch: Unreleased
November 20 – December 22, 2010
Heather Bursch's single-channel video installation Unreleased consists of a grid of tiny videos, each animated by the artist’s hand. A segment of Scorcese’s film King of Comedy is quoted, altered and looped. Slippages between physical and virtual, individual and crowd, adulation and ridicule, are continually re-performed in a work that considers relationships between cultural narrative, technology and subjectivity in a digital age.

Suzannah Vaughan / Solas Nua: Tracing Form
January 7 – February 12, 2011
Flashpoint resident organization Solas Nua, the only organization dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish art in the United States, will present their second Flashpoint Gallery exhibition. In Tracing Form, Irish artist Suzannah Vaughan will combine glass and concrete sculptures with string installation. Informed by linear perspective and architectural drawings, the luminous installation will be suspended across the gallery space to create a three-dimensional drawing.

Juan Tejedor: Standing Atop the Ladder
February 18 – March 26, 2011
In his first solo exhibition in Washington, DC, Juan Tejedor will present a variety of media including sculpture and works on paper that reference mapping, topography and the behavior of dynamic systems. In Standing Atop the Ladder, Tejedor looks to various natural and man-made systems, including public transit routes, star systems, and bird migratory patterns, to investigate the very nature of structure and organization.

Adam Dwight & Dana Jeri Maier: Off in a Corner
April 1 – May 7, 2011
Adam Dwight’s gouache paintings and rubber puddle will collide with Dana Jeri Maier’s ink drawings on drink coasters for Off in a Corner, a two-person show that manipulates the line between fine art and illustration. When juxtaposed, Dwight's and Maier’s farcical and cartoonish narratives reveal a dark absurdity to the characters and relationships depicted within.

Old Fashioned New Media May 13 – June 11, 2011
This group exhibition will feature work by Andy Holtin, Chandi Kelley Jamie O’Shea and Christine Buckton Tillman. Old Fashioned New Media explores artists working in outmoded technologies and using new technologies to meditate on human interaction.

Jenny Sidhu Mullins: American Temple
June 18 – July 23, 2011
In an exhibition that combines drawings and an interactive sculpture, American Temple offers Jenny Sidhu Mullins’ meditations on incarnation, Eastern spirituality and cultural appropriation. Mullins’ new works were inspired by a trip she took to India on a Fulbright Scholarship to research spiritual tourism. The artist riffs on the ways in which American culture has adopted and assimilated various Eastern cultural traditions and objects.

Janell Olah with curator Amanda Jiron-Murphy: you make me nostalgic for a place i’ve never known
July 30 – August 27, 2011
DC-based curator Amanda Jiron-Murphy will work with Philadelphia-based artist Janell Olah to present a site-specific installation of Olah’s inflatable, kinetic sculptures. Olah’s hand-sewn fabric forms slowly inflate, deflate and are lit from within. you make me nostalgic for a place i’ve never known explores the Flashpoint Gallery space through memory, mapping and systems.

Nicole Herbert: Trace
July 29 – September 30, 2011
Nicole Herbert’s Trace is an intervention into the forgotten spaces of Flashpoint. Herbert’s site-specific works will take place throughout the entire Flashpoint incubator space, reminding the viewer of overlooked areas and subtle architectural features. Herbert will use drawing, three-dimensional sculptural forms and found objects to activate the hallways, stairwells and offices at Flashpoint.