2014
Flashpoint Gallery
EMILY FRANCISCO
Something Slightly Familiar
A large-scale drawing installation that turns the entire gallery space into an absurdist comic, transporting the viewer into an otherworldly cartoonish universe
Leslie Berns + Shelley Warren
Embodying the Ephemeral
In this multi-media installation, artists Leslie Berns and Shelley Warren explore relationships between art and ritual, identity and the environment, and Eastern philosophical and spiritual traditions through moving images using water and documentation of a ritualistic performance
Martine Workman
Dusk Woods
An imagined forest with fantasy, playfulness and humor through different approaches to drawing
Tai Hwa Goh
Lulled Land
The accumulation of memories and experiences, representing the vulnerability of the human body, and at the same time, the recoverability and power of selfness
Ben Tolman
Civilized
Human behavior and daily patterns – particularly along social, economic and public/private lines – are examined through detailed depictions of commonplace rituals
Breeonna Hill, Kourtney Riley, & Tim Davis
Sheroes and Womanists: An Examination of Feminist(s) Subjectivity in Modern and Contemporary African American Art
Features artists whose work explores subjects and perspectives around feminist identity
Molly Springfield
The Marginalia Archive
Relationships between readers and texts through contemporary examples of marginalia (readers’ annotations)
Rachel Schmidt
Forgotten Futures
Schmidt’s installation is set 500 years in the future, and tells the future myth of the last elephant, offering a glimpse of what humanity’s relationship to wildlife might look like in this fantastical – yet foreboding – urban wilderness
Megan Van Wagoner & Erik Thor Sandberg
Saturated with the Subconscious
An installation based on dreams