The artist explains, “Living in and through digital media has affected how we perceive and engage with images. This work mimics the way we digest endless images on screens—but in this case they are fragmented clips that coalesce into a narrative of a film. Situated behind these floating, stacked windows are colorful backgrounds that possess both the graphic flatness of screensavers and the atmospheric depth of color field painting. When installed, a merging occurs between the real and its representation—between the space of the actual gallery, its photographic reproduction, and the simulated space of cinema.”
The title references fractal structures, whose surfaces seem whole and singular to the eye, but beneath which are microscopic, endless copies of the original structure.

There will be an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, May 23 from 6-8pm. Victoria Fu will be giving a talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Luce Center on Saturday, June 1 at 1:30pm.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Victoria Fu is a visual artist who films, photographs and draws the image. She received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History from University of Southern California, and BA in Art History from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was a participant of Skowhegan in 2006. Recipient of a 2008 Art Matters Grant, Fu has been reviewed in The New York Times, Boston Globe and was featured in the “Cinematic” issue of ASPECT: Chronicle of New Media. She has a current solo exhibition, Lorem ipsum, at Marginal Utility in Philadelphia. Forthcoming shows include Approximately Infinite Universe at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Summer 2013), a solo exhibition at the UC Irvine University Art Gallery (January 2014) and a show at the American University Museum at the Katzen Center (2014) here in D.C. This summer, she will be in residence at Fountainhead in Miami. Fu is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of San Diego.

More info: www.victoriafu.com and www.artoffice.org.

This exhibition was made possible in part by a Mellon Grant through American University and a University of San Diego Faculty Research Grant. The artist would like to thank Chautauqua Institution and Lois Jubeck, Cassidy Benson, Arden Cone and Julia Whitney.

ABOUT CULTURALDC’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates Flashpoint Gallery and produces public art interventions throughout DC. We nurture talented emerging and mid-career artists by providing opportunities for peer learning and mentorship. At Flashpoint Gallery we showcase bold, new work from artists working in a variety of media including site-specific installations, performance pieces, new media and other experimental forms. As a nonprofit gallery free from the constraints of commercial expectations, Flashpoint provides artists and curators a unique opportunity to take creative risks. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals makes programming recommendations for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists.

Flashpoint Gallery is generously supported by Natalie and Paul Abrams and by DESHO Productions and The Washington Post Company. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners.

ABOUT FLASHPOINT
Flashpoint is a multi-disciplinary arts space. Flashpoint includes a contemporary art gallery, the 75-seat Mead Theatre Lab, the Coors Dance Studio and shared office space for arts organizations.

Victoria Fu: A Cloud is Not a Sphere
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 23, 6-8pm
Exhibition: May 23 – June 22, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6pm or by appointment
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305 Press: 202.315.1310 Fax: 202.315.1303
Email: karyn@culturaldc.org

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anna Tsouhlarakis is a sculpture, installation, video and performance artist. Originally from the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, she received her BA from Dartmouth College in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She then attended Yale University and received her MFA in 2002. She has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Yaddo. Her work has been shown at national and international venues including Rush Arts in New York, Dreamspace Gallery in London, McMaster University Art Museum in Ontario and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is currently part of an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe.

ABOUT CULTURALDC’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates Flashpoint Gallery and produces public art interventions throughout DC. We nurture talented emerging and mid-career artists by providing opportunities for peer learning and mentorship. At Flashpoint Gallery we showcase bold, new work from artists working in a variety of media including site-specific installations, performance pieces, new media and other experimental forms. As a nonprofit gallery free from the constraints of commercial expectations, Flashpoint provides artists and curators a unique opportunity to take creative risks. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals makes programming recommendations for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists.

Flashpoint Gallery is generously supported by Natalie and Paul Abrams and by DESHO Productions and The Washington Post Company. Hotel Helix is Flashpoint’s 2012-13 Hotel Partner. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners.

ABOUT FLASHPOINT
Flashpoint is a multi-disciplinary arts space. Flashpoint includes a contemporary art gallery, the 75-seat Mead Theatre Lab, the Coors Dance Studio and shared office space for arts organizations.

Anna Tsouhlarakis: In Other Words: A Native Primer
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19, 6-8pm
Exhibition: April 19 – May 18, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6pm or by appointment
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305 Press: 202.315.1310 Fax: 202.315.1303
Email: karyn@culturaldc.org

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ABOUT THE MEAD THEATRE LAB PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates the Mead Theatre Lab Program and its intensive mentorship program for performing artists and independent theatre companies. Inaugurated in January 2006, the program provides theatre space, technical production support and production mentoring. A panel of noted DC theatre professionals selects the projects and provides guidance to the chosen producers. The result is an eclectic group of innovative, edgy productions and an environment in which emerging performing artists can grow.

The Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint, a CulturalDC project, is generously sponsored by the late Jaylee Mead. Additional support is provided by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, the Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, the Mary & Daniel Loughran Foundation, The Washington Post Company and The Weissberg Foundation.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305
CulturalDC Press • Phone: 202.315.1310 • Email: karyn@culturaldc.org
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03.15.13 – 04.13.13
Opening Reception: Friday, March 15, 6 – 8pm

WASHINGTON, DC – On March 15th, artists Hiroshi Jacobs and Casey Hughes will open a show at CulturalDC’s Flashpoint Gallery. Vector Cloud, a large site-specific installation will create a sense of oscillation between two and three-dimensional space as it unfolds through the length of the main gallery space.

Jacobs’ and Hughes’ work informs, and is informed by, their work as practicing architects. Creating art allows them to quickly test ideas that the gestation period of architecture does not allow.

A cloud-like form will fill the gallery and be suspended in mid-air to meet the viewer at eye level. Jacobs’ and Hughes’ installation employs the linear quality of brightly colored bungee cords and metal rods to create a tension between three-dimensional form and flatness. The artists explain, “We’re interested in the individual and combined potential of each dimension, exploring how lines can suggest surfaces, and how surfaces in turn can suggest volume and enclosure. We want to engage the viewer in the perceptual construction of space, and the indeterminacy therein.”

There will be an opening reception with the artists on Friday, March 15 from 6-8pm. Hiroshi Jacobs & Casey Hughes will be giving a talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Luce Foundation Center on March 16 at 1:30pm.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Casey Hughes
Casey Hughes, the principal of Casey Hughes Architects, is a licensed architect and a LEED Accredited Design Professional. His design work has won several awards, including first place in the Lyceum Competition and the American Institute of Architects’ Henry Adams Medal for Excellence in Architecture. The work of Casey Hughes Architects has appeared in numerous books and periodicals, including Dwell Magazine and The New York Times. Casey received a Bachelors of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture, graduating valedictorian. He holds a Masters of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design where his work was selected to appear in numerous publications and exhibitions.

Hiroshi Jacobs
Hiroshi Jacobs’ work has appeared in numerous international publications and exhibitions, including Surface Magazine, Businessweek, Harvard GSD Platform, DesCours New Orleans, La Biennale di Venezia and the Harvard Arts First Festival. Locally his work has been exhibited at Artisphere with the Washington Project for the Arts, Project 4 Gallery, and the (e)merge Art Fair with Flashpoint. He has taught design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Tulane University, and Catholic University. Hiroshi is currently a designer with STUDIOS architecture and was awarded the 2012 Emerging Architect Award from the American Institute of Architects Washington DC Chapter, where he now serves as a member of the Design Excellence Committee. He received his Master in Design Studies degree from Harvard University, where he was the recipient of the Daniel L Shodek Award for Technology and Sustainability, and received his Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees from Tulane University.

ABOUT CULTURALDC’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates Flashpoint Gallery and produces public art interventions throughout DC. We nurture talented emerging and mid-career artists by providing opportunities for peer learning and mentorship. At Flashpoint Gallery we showcase bold, new work from artists working in a variety of media including site-specific installations, performance pieces, new media and other experimental forms. As a nonprofit gallery free from the constraints of commercial expectations, Flashpoint provides artists and curators a unique opportunity to take creative risks. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals makes programming recommendations for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists.

Flashpoint Gallery is generously supported by Natalie and Paul Abrams and by DESHO Productions and The Washington Post Company. Hotel Helix is Flashpoint’s 2012-13 Hotel Partner. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners.

ABOUT FLASHPOINT
Flashpoint is a multi-disciplinary arts space. Flashpoint includes a contemporary art gallery, the 75-seat Mead Theatre Lab, the Coors Dance Studio and shared office space for arts organizations.

Hiroshi Jacobs & Casey Hughes: Vector Cloud
Opening Reception: Friday, March 15, 6-8pm
Exhibition: March 15 – April 13, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6 pm or by appointment
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305 Press: 202.315.1310 Fax: 202.315.1303
Email: karynmiller@culturaldc.org

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CulturalDC Presents Pointless Theatre’s Canterbury
at MEAD THEATRE LAB PROGRAM AT FLASHPOINT

OPENING RECEPTION: 03.15.13, FRI, 8pm

WASHINGTON, DC – CulturalDC is pleased to present Pointless Theatre’s newest work Canterbury as part of the 2012-13 Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint. Known for their unique puppet spectacles Pointless now turns its attention to an original adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Helmed by director Matt Reckeweg, the eight-person ensemble will draw on Pointless’s signature high-energy blend of puppetry, dance, theatre and music to create a world that feels both entirely of-the-moment while remaining true to Chaucer and his pilgrims.

About Canterbury
Canterbury is Pointless’s unique take on Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s timeless stories of love, lust and morality. Set in a tavern in Southwark, London in the early 1380s, the production follows seven of Chaucer’s pilgrims over the course of one drunken night as they exchange stories to pass the time and attempt to win a free meal from the tavern’s owner. As the night goes on, they find themselves drawn into helping tell each other’s stories with improvised puppets made from whatever they can find in the bar.

Art director Patti Kalil is transforming the Mead Theatre Lab into a medieval tavern full of all the detritus of modern life circa 1380. The result is a space where the different characters can play out their individual stories and find common ground in their very different experiences in late medieval England.

To capture the diverse voices in which Chaucer wrote his various characters, the script for Canterbury is the product of eight DC-area playwrights working to adapt seven of Chaucer’s tales. The playwrights, along with adapting dramaturg Alex Leidy, have created an irreverent and modern take on the classic tales.

Canterbury offers audiences a chance to experience Chaucer in a new, contemporary light, bringing the iconic stories to life in a way that celebrates their poetry and bawdiness as a way of exploring why we tell stories and how they bring us together.

The show will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. General admission will be $20 with $15 tickets available for students and seniors (65+) with a valid ID. This adult-themed production is not recommended for children. Tickets will be available to purchase at culturaldc.org. For more information about Pointless Theatre visit pointlesstheatre.com.

Pointless Theatre: Canterbury
Pay-What-You-Can Preview: February 13 & 14
Opening Night & Reception: Friday, February 15, 8pm
Performances: February 13 – March 9, 2013
Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm
Venue: Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G Street NW (near Metro Center & Gallery Place Metro)
Tickets: $20 ($15 for students & seniors)
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org.

For photos & press, contact: Scott Whalen, Pointless Theatre’s Director of Marketing & Media Relations, 443.350.6740, scott@pointlesstheatre.com

ABOUT POINTLESS THEATRE
Founded in 2010, POINTLESS THEATRE CO. is dedicated to creating bold, visceral and affordable spectacles that gleefully smash the traditional boundaries between puppetry, theatre, dance, music and the visual arts. Through our work we excite a passion for adventurous art in the nation’s capital and nurture a diverse, active, and inspired audience.

In 2010, Pointless staged The Sleeping Beauty: a puppet ballet as part of the Capital Fringe Festival and were awarded the festival’s Pick of the Fringe award for Best Experimental Show.

Pointless returned to Capital Fringe in 2011 with an original play, Hugo Ball: A Super Spectacular DADA Adventure, and earned rave reviews from DCist, MD Theatre Guide and The Washington Post, who named the show one of their Editor’s Picks. Hugo Ball won Pointless its second Pick of the Fringe for Best Experimental Show and was brought back for a remount in November 2011 as part of the FallFRINGE festival.

Pointless then went on to mount its first completely self-produced work, Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher. A jazz-puppet spectacle, this original piece combined dancers, singers, puppeteers and a seven-piece jazz orchestra to bring to life the story Minnie the Moocher and her hepcat beau, Smoky Joe.

Pointless then returned to the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival, where The Washington Post named its production of the original play Imagination Meltdown Adventure an Editor’s Pick. Pointless was also awarded the Capital Fringe 2012 Director’s Pick Award for the production.

ABOUT THE MEAD THEATRE LAB PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates the Mead Theatre Lab Program and its intensive mentorship program for performing artists and independent theatre companies. Inaugurated in January 2006, the program provides theatre space, technical production support and production mentoring. A panel of noted DC theatre professionals selects the projects and provides guidance to the chosen producers. The result is an eclectic group of innovative, edgy productions and an environment in which emerging performing artists can grow.

The Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint, a CulturalDC project, is generously sponsored by the late Jaylee Mead. Additional support is provided by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, the Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, the Mary & Daniel Loughran Foundation, The Washington Post Company and The Weissberg Foundation.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

CulturalDC
916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305
Pointless Press • Phone: 443.350.6740 • Email: scott@pointlesstheatre.com
CulturalDC Press • Phone: 202.315.1310 • Email: karyn@culturaldc.org
Official Hashtags: #PointlessCan, #Ilovepuppets, #yeoldepuppets

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February 8 – March 9, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 6 – 8PM

WASHINGTON, DC – CulturalDC is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by DC area artist Jimmy Miracle opening on February 8 at Flashpoint Gallery. Wearing Ethereal will feature a series of photographs and sculptures that show the artist’s practice of transforming found materials into installations and sculptures. The artist explains, “I’m interested in accumulation and repetition. I seek to create a humble monumentality built by carefully and obsessively assembling ordinary materials into something spiritual.”

Twelve photographs on display document a project from The Rockaway Series, a four- month self-imposed residency where Miracle created site-specific work using trash and organic material found washed-up on the beach in Queens, New York. During that time, Miracle assembled and destroyed over sixty pieces on the beach. The photographs show the detritus – plastic cutlery, funerary garments, clothing, buoys, rope and shells – that the artist accumulated and then painstakingly arranged and morphed into something both curious and sacred. The exhibition will also include a large, antique armoire propped open to reveal an interior that Miracle carefully threaded with luminous string. Like The Rockaway Series, the sculpture takes ordinary materials and transforms them into mystical and contemplative works.

The exhibition will offer a space for the viewer to reflect, but also questions our consumer culture by meticulously transforming the residue of mass consumption into something spiritual.

There will be an opening reception with the artist on Friday, February 8 from 6-8pm. Jimmy Miracle will be giving a talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Luce Center on Saturday, February 23 at 1:30pm.

Contact Karyn Miller, Director of Visual Arts and Communications with all press inquiries and image requests: karynmiller@culturaldc.org.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jimmy Miracle was born in 1982 in Ohio and now lives and works in Washington, DC. He received a BA from Belhaven College in Jackson, MS. His art career began while living in Brooklyn, NY from 2006-2011. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Washington, DC, London and Berlin. He has shown with HKJB, Washington Project for the Arts, NYCAMS, Islip Art Museum, StorefrontBushwick, The Pigeon Wing and Norte Maar. Wearing Ethereal is Miracle’s second solo show in Washington, DC and is funded in part by a grant from CulturalDC.

ABOUT CULTURALDC’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates Flashpoint Gallery and produces public art interventions throughout DC. We nurture talented emerging and mid-career artists by providing opportunities for peer learning and mentorship. At Flashpoint Gallery we showcase bold, new work from artists working in a variety of media including site-specific installations, performance pieces, new media and other experimental forms. As a nonprofit gallery free from the constraints of commercial expectations, Flashpoint provides artists and curators a unique opportunity to take creative risks. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals makes programming recommendations for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists.

Flashpoint Gallery is generously supported by Natalie and Paul Abrams and by DESHO Productions and The Washington Post Company. Hotel Helix is Flashpoint’s 2012-13 Hotel Partner. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners.

ABOUT FLASHPOINT
Flashpoint is a multi-disciplinary arts space. Flashpoint includes a contemporary art gallery, the 75-seat Mead Theatre Lab, the Coors Dance Studio and shared office space for arts organizations.

Jimmy Miracle: Wearing Ethereal
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 6-8pm
Exhibition: February 8 – March 9, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6 pm or by appointment
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305 Press: 202.315.1310 Fax: 202.315.1303
Email: karynmiller@culturaldc.org

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January 5 – February 2, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 5, 6 – 8pm

WASHINGTON, DC – Florida-based art team Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy will transform Flashpoint Gallery with an installation of projected animations called Grid, Sequence Me, opening on January 5. Surrounded by images of cross-sectioned buildings and source code excerpts, gallery visitors will encounter fragments of Washington, DC architecture—a vaguely familiar roofline or grid of office windows—remixed with phrases spidered from housing-related websites. Constantly changing, the data will be streamed live into the gallery from both local sources (DC short sale listings) and national (federal policy sites). The inclusion of both local and national data will emphasize the effects of related micro-macro shifts.

Generated by custom software designed by the artists, these fragments will echo the financial systems that led to recent housing market declines. They mirror mortgages repackaged and sold, titles lost in administrative tape, and dreams confused by legal jargon. Like the complex financial systems of the housing market heyday, the software is specifically written to generate an infinite number of arrangements. The complexity of constantly changing outcomes, never repeated, stands in stark contrast to the exhibition’s title, Grid, Sequence Me. We implement grids hoping for comforting, predictable results, even in areas of life—like living arrangements and job creation—that are filled with human folly.

The exhibition offers a space where a visitor can consider how automated, often unseen technological communications and economic systems affect our daily lives and basic human needs.

There will be an artist talk and preview on Saturday, January 5 at 5pm as a part of our membership program. Others are invited to join us. RSVP to gallery@culturaldc.org to attend the artist talk. The public reception will follow immediately after the talk from 6-8pm.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joelle Dietrick
Joelle Dietrick’s paintings, drawings and animations explore contemporary nesting instincts and their manipulation by global economic systems. Her recent artworks and research consider housing trends that complicate relationships to place. Her work has been shown at Transitio_MX in Mexico City, TINA B Festival in Prague and Venice, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, MCA San Diego, Long March Space Beijing, ARC Gallery Chicago, Soho20 New York and MPG Contemporary Boston. She has attended residencies at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Anderson Ranch, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts and the School of the Visual Arts and received fellowships from the University of California, Florida State University and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).

Owen Mundy
Owen Mundy is an artist, designer, and programmer who investigates public space and its relationship to data. His artwork highlights inconspicuous trends and offers tools to make hackers out of everyday users. His work has been shown at Transitio_MX in Mexico City, the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, CA, Compactspace in Los Angeles, Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast, the Sarai Media Lab in New Dehli, Bauer&Ewald Gallery in Berlin and APEXART, Flux Factory and Art Currents Gallery, in New York. He is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the State of Indiana, a Planning Grant from Florida State University, a Center for Humanities Fellowship and San Diego Fellowship from University of California, San Diego and a DAAD Arts Study Fellowship. He has an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University.

ABOUT CULTURALDC’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates Flashpoint Gallery and produces public art interventions throughout DC. We nurture talented emerging and mid-career artists by providing opportunities for peer learning and mentorship. At Flashpoint Gallery we showcase bold, new work from artists working in a variety of media including site-specific installations, performance pieces, new media and other experimental forms. As a nonprofit gallery free from the constraints of commercial expectations, Flashpoint provides artists and curators a unique opportunity to take creative risks. An advisory panel of noted artists and arts professionals makes programming recommendations for the gallery and provides mentorship and support to exhibiting artists.

Flashpoint Gallery is generously supported by Natalie and Paul Abrams and by DESHO Productions and The Washington Post Company. Hotel Helix is Flashpoint’s 2012-13 Hotel Partner. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners.

ABOUT FLASHPOINT
Flashpoint is a multi-disciplinary arts space. Flashpoint includes a contemporary art gallery, the 75-seat Mead Theatre Lab, the Coors Dance Studio and shared office space for arts organizations.

Joelle Dietrick & Owen Mundy: Grid, Sequence Me
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 5, 6-8pm
Exhibition: January 5 – February 2, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-6 pm or by appointment
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

CulturalDC • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
General: 202.315.1305 Press: 202.315.1310
Fax: 202.315.1303 Email: karynmiller@culturaldc.org
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CulturalDC & CityDance present Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance’s Space Junk at the CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore, Saturday, December 1 at 8:00pm & Sunday, December 2 at 7:30pm

“A fluid dancer whose choreography tends towards the specific…Erica Rebollar has been one of the most intriguing additions to the city’s dance scene.”
-Amanda Abrams, City Paper’s Fall Arts Guide

“Choreographer Erica Rebollar creates masterful pieces of work.”
-DC Metro Theater Arts, Amanda Gunther

WASHINGTON, DC — Space Junk is a dance premiere directed by Erica Rebollar exploring outer and inner realms: the objective realities of our outer universe compared with the inner workings of the subjective mind. Using both intricate movement and experimental scores, Space Junk highlights the dialogue of the body as it negotiates subjective and objective worlds, featuring dancers Heather Doyle, Nate Bond, Yoko Feinman, Junichi Fukuda, Kjerstin Lysne, Amber-Jean Tietgens, sound composer Charlie Campagna, set/lighting designer Ben Levine and video artist David Dowling. Space Junk is presented as part of a collaboration between CulturalDC’s Mead Theatre Lab Program and CityDance.

Dancers shift states of perception to examine the irregularities and dichotomies of the mind while exploring the vast, suspended time of outer space. Experiencing the body as a conscious machine with dual realities, Space Junk will highlight Rebollar’s “contemporary, precise style” (Amanda Abrams, City Paper) to illustrate mechanical workings as both a spatial and sentient entity. Space Junk includes structured movement improvisations as well as experimentation with light and sound, featuring an original score based on industrial, motorized sounds and unusual use of light and projection.

As “space junk” is astronomy’s definition of orbital debris created by humans, Rebollar Dance uses this term as a metaphor for the rubble that lives and dies within our minds as past experiences, outdated ideas and misfired thoughts.

Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance: Space Junk
Opening & Press Night: Saturday, December 1, 8pm
Performances: Saturday, December 1, 8pm & Sunday, December 2, 7:30pm
Venue: City Dance Studio Theater at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland 20852
Phone: 301.581.5204
Tickets: $17, $15 for students/artists/seniors
Starting November 1, tickets can be purchased online or over the phone at 866-811-4111
For more information: Call 202.315.1310 or visit culturaldc.org

ERICA REBOLLAR/REBOLLAR DANCE
Erica Rebollar was born in Madrid, studied at the Washington School of Ballet and completed her MFA in choreography at UCLA. Erica danced with Eko Supriyanto, Li Chiao-Ping, Carol McDowell, Namah Ensemble and toured nationally and internationally. She produced her first show in Seattle in 1999, and after receiving ACDFA’s National Choreographer Award from Dance Magazine, Brigham Young University commissioned the choreography. Erica was a three time Lester Horton Award nominee for performance and choreography in Los Angeles.

Erica received Mabou Mines Suites residency in New York City, showing full-length works at PS 122 and St. Mark’s Church. She was the recipient of funding through Joyce Soho’s A.W.A.R.D show, and performed in various dance festivals at Judson Church, Dance Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center and the Flea.

Upon moving back to DC, Erica performed her choreography at Velocity Dance Festival at Harman Hall and Joy of Motion’s Dance Project. She received the Kennedy Center’s Local Dance Commissioning Project grant, performing evening-length pieces on the Millennium Stage and at Dance Place, with excerpts at Round House Theatre and Theatre Project/Baltimore. Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance was named a “Top Pick” of Washington City Paper’s Fall Arts Guide, highlighted in “Most Memorable Dance Performances of 2011” and nominated for a Metro DC Dance Award in the category “Outstanding New Work.”

Rebollar Dance received rave reviews for Nautical Yards, a site-specific collaborative work with Force/Collision Theater Company at the Navy Yards Park. The upcoming Space Junk is already a pick of the season in City Paper’s 2012 Fall Arts Guide.

Other fall shows include: Sentient Machine at Velocity Dance Festival; a premiere of guest choreography for the Dance Ethos Company; Space Junk as part of CulturalDC’s Mead Theatre Lab Program (in collaboration with CityDance); and Fairfax County Art Council’s Strauss Fellowship. In 2013, Rebollar Dance will premiere full-length works Cardinal Points at Atlas’ Intersections Festival in March and Good Hurt at American Dance Institute in June, as well as present work in Peter DiMuro’s upcoming collaboration, Future Preludes.

This season Erica is generously supported by CulturalDC’s Mead Theatre Lab Program and Fairfax County’s Strauss Fellowship.

ABOUT REBOLLAR DANCE
With the founding of Rebollar Dance in 2003, Erica Rebollar created a modern dance collaborative where multi-genre artists can make innovative work. Rebollar Dance creates and presents unique, cutting edge choreography that engages diverse audiences and holds a strong presence in the arts community. Rebollar Dance carries forward a collaborative dedication developed over nine years. Based in Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City before settling in the DC area, Rebollar Dance examines dichotomies and fragmentations of physical behavior by peeling away layers to explore the boundaries of performance. With bodies, light and sound as conceptual canvasses, works evoke authentic, highly charged experiences for both dancers and audience, creating a visceral reaction to the resilient human body.

ABOUT CITYDANCE
CityDance provides arts education, professional dance training and performances across the DC metropolitan area including the Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD, where CityDance School & Conservatory train young dancers for professional careers; the Center at DC Dance Collective; The Madeira School in McLean, VA as well as many other area public, private and Charter Schools. CityDance’s Community Programs, located at over 20 sites across the region, provide free performances, afterschool programs and summer camps to over 15,000 students a year in the region’s most under-resourced neighborhoods and schools. CityDance presents professional dance in its new state of the art CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore through the CityDance Professional Artist Series. The series is comprised of performers from the Resident Artist Program, which provides talented local professional dancers and choreographers with the opportunity to create and perform original works in the CityDance Studio Theater and the Guest Artist Program, which brings world-class professional dancers from outside the region to CityDance’s studios and area performance venues.

ABOUT THE MEAD THEATRE LAB PROGRAM
CulturalDC operates the Mead Theatre Lab Program and its intensive mentorship program for performing artists and independent theatre companies. Inaugurated in January 2006, the program provides theatre space, technical production support and production mentoring. A panel of noted DC theatre professionals selects the projects and provides guidance to the chosen producers. The result is an eclectic group of innovative, edgy productions and an environment in which emerging performing artists can grow.

The Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint, a CulturalDC project, is generously sponsored by the late Jaylee Mead. Additional support is provided by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, the Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, the Mary & Daniel Loughran Foundation, The Washington Post Company and The Weissberg Foundation.

Funding for CulturalDC is generously provided by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Share Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and many other generous partners. Marvin is CulturalDC’s 2012-13 Wine Partner.

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