Jackie Milad: Inside Mouth
January 9 – February 13, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, January 9, 6 – 8 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 13, 1 p.m.

Part art, part anthropology, Jackie Milad describes her work as a, “reference library for gestural language, simultaneously unsettling, humorous, seductive and familiar.” Inside Mouth will feature a series of elegant, lyrical line drawings that chronicle the subtlety of facial expressions and show androgynous figures in awkward exchanges with one another. A photographic analog documents volunteers imitating the expressions that appear in the drawings.

Exhibition Press Release
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Jennifer Dorsey: Alma Mater
February 19 – March 27, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, February 19, 6 – 8 p.m.

Jennifer Dorsey photographs interiors of everyday architecture, often focusing on seemingly mundane details. In her first solo exhibition in Washington, DC, Alma Mater, Dorsey chronicled the interiors of two area high schools over the course of two summers. The photographs reveal the unexpected and uncanny beauty of the schools' utilitarian spaces.

Exhibition Press Release
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Bart O’Reilly / Solas Nua: Old Lines from the
  Luminous State
April 2 – May 8, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, April 2, 6 – 8 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 8, noon

Solas Nua, Flashpoint’s resident organization dedicated to contemporary Irish arts, will foray into visual arts with an exhibition by painter and video artist Bart O’Reilly. O’Reilly, a Baltimore-based Irish artist, will present Old Lines from the Luminous State, an installation investigating artistic process. Both the paintings and the short video works draw fodder from the artist’s experiences, including visits to ancestral barns and working with developmentally disabled adults.

Marc Roman: Veritas Obscura
May 14 – June 19, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, May 14, 6 – 8 p.m.

Marc Roman combines photography, drawing and painting on mounted plexiglas sheeting and cast resin to give sculptural form to traditionally two-dimensional techniques. His interest lies in the unusual application of layered abstraction to create a body of work that chronicles the relentless pursuit of physics from the discovery of X-rays and radium to the splitting of the atom and its ever shadowy presence in our lives today. Veritas Obscura will depict a "century of the electron” timeline encompassing the entire gallery that will entertain and depict all theories equally, both conspiracy and otherwise.