[from Jeffry Cudlin]
Realize this event's not in Petworth, but there is Petworth based content - painted images of Sherman Circle, of an arrest warrant for a Petworth resident, and a video of a performance piece shot near the intersection of Georgia and Farragut.
The show's about gentrification and race/identity. It's a collaboration between three artists - two white, one black. There should be an article on it in the Post Thursday, Feb. 9th. There'll be an artist's talk/reception on Thursday, Feb. 16th. Free of course, with drinks, refreshments, etc. The show's up through Feb. 25th.
Thanks, Jeffry
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[from the press release]
The Gallery at Flashpoint presents
Assimilation/Dissolution: Jeffry Cudlin, Christopher Hoeting, and Jefferson Pinder
January 19 – February 25, 2006
Assimilation/Dissolution is the result of an intensive collaboration between DC-based artists Jefferson Pinder, Christopher Hoeting and Jeffry Cudlin. Generated over the course of six months, this cycle of works forms an extended conversation on the issues of shifting geographic boundaries and community identities in Washington, DC.
According to Cudlin, “The process of creation for us became a metaphor for the development and redevelopment of neighborhoods in our city, of the tangle of intentions, designs and hidden histories that create our senses of both place and self. Ultimately, the show is the record of a discourse but also the opening of another – and invites the viewer's engagement and reflection.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
[Petworth resident] Jeffry Cudlin's representational paintings address both the conditional nature of perception and the abiding fact of a painting's flat surface and objecthood. Cudlin currently writes visual art reviews for the Washington City Paper and teaches art and art theory at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Christopher Hoeting was born in Cincinnati, OH and currently lives and works in Washington, DC. His work combines traditional painting techniques with new media processes.
Jefferson Pinder, who holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, in his collage work cuts and slices print media to explore Afro-American identity.
The Gallery at Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
202-315-1310
www.flashpointdc.org
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