2016
Flashpoint Gallery
Nicole Salimbene
Mending
Presents the act of mending as art medium, metaphor, and practice
Roxana Geffen
Motherload
The installations invoke visuals of the domestic and digital through large photographs of real structures; images of real-life schedules and lists abstracted and re-created as carpets, quilts, and networks of fabric and tape; and large, reworked images from digital landscapes
John Moletress and Eames Armstrong
Explore the possibility that home can never be fixed or static, but a process that runs alongside our endless navigation of living
Sparkplug Collective
Selfie: Me, Myself, and Us
Work by the Sparkplug artist collective, who will alter and distort representations of themselves as a commentary on and critique of our society’s obsession with selfies
Christian Benefiel
Delopment of an Argument
Work constructed and secured through tension and interdependent joinery, without glues or hardware
Blair Murphy
Footprint
An excavation, an archive that draws on the built memory in and around DC’s downtown core to explore how artists have made space in the city and, conversely, how the city has made space for artists
Khanh Le
Making Memories as We Wait
Transforms everyday photo albums into colorful abstractions using metallic acrylic paint, gold gelly roll pens, sequins, babbles stickers, and acrylic crystals
Danielle Scruggs
Migrations
Works trace a personal family history and explore the larger issues surrounding the Great Migration of the early to mid-20th century, which is directly connected to the lingering effects of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
Annette Isham and Zac Willis
We Are Not Alone
Through eye-witness testimony, re-enactments, and video documentation, the artists create a celestial installation that explores the façade that mankind is alone on Earth