H O [U S E] - H O [M E]
The Gallery at Flashpoint 


That's that !

THE  H O [U S E] - H O [M E] group show of 9 contemporary artists opened at the Flashpoint Gallery April 3rd, 2004.  By welcoming into the adopted home/gallery our  guests and visiting public, it gave everyone the chance to see for themselves what our château was like. It was definitely better than the "Welcome Wagon" coming to our door, no doubt about it.  Instead, our Washington, DC neighbors came carrying more than just Tupperware and a fruit basket, but plenty of warm hearts and best wishes for the future .

It felt good to come back home, "closure""la boucle est bouclée" in French. Indeed a shelter of sorts, a strong camaraderie felt between the HouseHome artists, the curators, Xavier and myself  and its visitors - just like family.  Pleased and proud to see the final result at Flashpoint from its early beginnings in Brookland, and the series of  9 artist's interventions began in September of 2003.  Home is where the heart is (at) or where Papa lays (his) hat by the late great Temptations. Our House is certainly different from yours, but what counts is what's inside.

after
all is said and done, the artworks made for HouseHome will linger on forever embedded in the memory of the artists who produced them, the visitors who experienced them and the resulting  rich and personal dialogue that ensued and still persists.
 



Welcome to   
H O [U S E] - H O [M E]

Artists
CarrieUngerman, MichaelArata, Susie & BetsyBrandt, Vanessa Kamp, AxelleRioult, Stephen Rueckert, RonDeLegge & Matt Schwede.   
 

"Dessins
mécanoplastiques
plasto-plastiques peintopeintures
anaplastiques
anatomiques
antizimiques
aérographiques
antiphonaires
arrosables et républicains; 
au-delà de la peinture"

Max Ernst 1921

 The entrance to the Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington D.C.
(banner of Martin Luther King Jr. - upper right corner - hangs in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, opposite the gallery.  Library designed by Mies van der Rohe)



The Gallery at Flashpoint Group Show
 916 G Street  NW  Washington, DC

H O [U S E] - H O [M E] Project Site
2914 12th St. NE  Washington, DC  Brookland
 

                   H O [U S E] - H O [M E]

               is
a two part exhibition of 9 contemporary artists living and working throughout the United States and Europe.
One
artist each month is selected to install a "work" of art within the confines of a Federal style row house located in the heart of  the Brookland DC community.


 

               
                
                         Ron DeLegge

"I remember way back in the days on my block... "

Carrie Ungerman installing at FLASHPOINT

Michael Arata


 

Ron DeLegge's walk through shoestring door

the
second part coincides with a group showing of all the artist's   new works and interventions in the Gallery at FLASHPOINT.
All
of the artworks in the three  bedroom two-story Brookland home, as well as in the gallery, can be viewed at any time during the exhibit.  

H O [U S E] - H O [M E]
Press Release



 

Our goal is to make you the viewer feel at home through the experiences of our invited guest artists. The dialogue that will ensue is inextricably tied to and/or substantially departing from the routines and traditions established within the private house - yours or mine - and is in part a response to the culture, history and notions of the modern home today and its occupants.



 

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu...
Depuis longtemps
TAS d'idiots

Francis Picabia