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Sep 16, 2010

Patrick McDonough’s reck room @ Flashpoint

They served Pabst Blue Ribbon at the opening of Patrick McDonough‘s new installation reck room at Flashpoint. The unintentional reference to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, whose unforgettable character Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) proudly favored PBR to Heineken, is appropriate. Just as that film examined the dark side of suburban America, reck room finds something strange beneath a comforting artifice.

 
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