Vox Populi, The Front , New Orleans, LA
May 11-26, 2013

Maria created new site-specific work for the group exhibition. Untitled (Big Easy) [2013, video and sound, 11 minutes] is a reimagining of a 1987 American crime drama film in which characters and dialogue are redacted, thereby altering the focus from the film’s narrative to a reframed view of New Orleans landscape in which the film is set.

Spark Gap, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
May 3 - June 2, 2013

Spark Gap is an exhibition of new and recent work by Vox Populi’s new members taking place both in the gallery and at AUX Performance Space. Collaboratively curated with Vox Populi’s executive director Andrew Suggs, Spark Gap invites viewers to participate in fresh artistic conversations with the 25-year old collective.

Maria is a recent member of Vox Populi and created new work for the exhibition.

Time Capsule included in "It's The End Of The World (Again!)" exhibition at in PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
December 19-21, 2012

Created with Michele Guieu, the collaborative piece, Time Capsule, is in a three-day art show/symposium presented by The Center for Media and Destiny. This installation version of Time Capsule tells the story and functions as an excavated artifact of the story. It consists of a television, vhs player and vhs tape, and a military storage box containing the mementos that Erin and her friends hid at the site where they used to hang out before an untold catastrophe occurred that turned Erin’s world upside down. The time capsule is the box. It was hidden and found in the setting of the story.

Maria Dumlao is a new member of Vox Populi Gallery

Vox Populi is an artist collective that works to support the challenging and experimental work of under-represented artists with monthly exhibitions, gallery talks, performances, lectures, and related programming. Founded in 1988, Vox Populi is in Philadelphia.

Sound Places at the Commotion Festival in Philadelphia
June 2012

Sound Places is a “virtual” sound art project that allows participants to create freely re-mixable, site-specific audio pieces using Google maps, iPods and smartphones. Sound Places will take place during the entire Commotion Festival, June 16 – 30, and will feature a series of short audio pieces, each of which is directly related to or inspired by a specific location or area in the Point Breeze, Grays Ferry, and South of South Street neighborhoods.

Smart phone users could go to the locations marked on the map, where one would find a poster with a QR code which, once scanned, will allow to play a sound piece specific to that location on the phone. For the non-smart phone user, simply download the map and the podcast, print the map and add the podcast to your iPod or mp3 player and take the tour yourself.

About Maria's piece. Listen here.

Sound Places Workshop: LISTEN HERE NOW with Maria Dumlao
A Bowerbird Event

Listen Here Now investigates how listening, recording and mapping can transform our sense of place, time and physical relationship to a given location in the neighborhood of Pt. Breeze/Grays Ferry. This workshop involves listening, recording and mapping sound. Through focused listening, the participant becomes more aware of their environment as they discover their surrounding in an audible way. Each participant will be mapping out their sonic experience thereby creating a narrative of their relationship to the given location.

Using a map and a recording device, each participant will track their movement through space. Starting and ending at a designated place and time, each participant will navigate their walks based on what they hear, thereby shaping the trajectory of their sonic journey. Participants are to stop, listen and record the surrounding landscape and mark the location on their maps. The recordings and maps are shared to the participants.

Zion Hill Memorial Baptist, 2700 Ellsworth St. Philadelphia
June 2, 2012, 12 noon - 4 pm

Time Capsule
Sight and Sound, Billboard Art Project
Interstate 195/Westwood Trail in Richmond, VA
April 2-29, 2012

Time Capsule was created in collaboration with the San Francisco based artist Michele Guieu. We contributed this piece to the invitational component of the Billboard Art Project, an exhibition of visual and sound art utilizing an LED billboard and radio transmission.

See stills here.

HOMELAND review

"HOMELAND at Maas Space"
by J. Makary,
The Nicola Midnight St. Claire
November 13, 2011

Real Time review

"Debunking the Artist Myth"
by Ilene Dube,
The Artful Blogger
November 4, 2011

Real Time
An exhibition by the art collective Brainstormers

September 1 - December 9, 2011
Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries
8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Gallery Hours: M-F 9am-4:30pm; weekends by appointment
Info: womenart@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-3726 ext. 15

Events:
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5-7 pm/Reception and Mary H Dana Women Artists Series 40th Anniversary Celebration

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Gallery Talk at noon

Brainstormers is a collaborative group I have been involved with for over six years now with artists Elaine Kaufmann and Danielle Mysliwiec.

Biennial Arts Faculty Exhibition

Bucks County Community College
Hicks Art Center Gallery
275 Swamp Road, Newtown

Gallery hours are Monday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon (closed November 23 – 27)

Opening reception: Wednesday, November 2, from 5 to 7 pm

HOMELAND a screening of short films about place

"These landmarks, charged with affect, evoke a social experience. That is to say, they are not merely objects onto which inner anxieties are projected, repositories of the personal, but objects shaped by and perceived within a distinct environment." – Jill Bennett

Home or homeland can be a focal point for reflection and inspiration. This program of short films examines the influence of a primary physical space on point of view and perspective. Each work illustrates the artist's unique relationship to—and memory of—a specific geographic location, while, each, in their own way, maps the interior worlds of artists operating in a regional context.

curated by Jesse Pires
In conjunction with the exhibition Inspiration Information

Maas Building
1325 Randolph St., Philadelphia

Saturday, October 29, 8pm.

 

The Big Idea
an exhibition of work that refers to the condition of not meeting the desired objective of a big idea.

Curated by Maria Dumlao

Artists include Chris Forsyth, Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, Elaine Kaufmann, Ken Montgomery, Kristen Neville Taylor, Laura Parnes, Marissa Perel and Oliverio Rodriguez, Fabio Roberti, and Fritz Welch

Opening reception Saturday, October 1, 2011, 6-10p
The show runs from October 1 until October 29, 2011

little berlin
2430 Coral Street
Philadelphia 19125

Image: Laura Parnes, Still of Jonestown from Blood and Guts in High School, 2004/06

Bucks Faculty Show

Hamilton Hall Galleries
University of the Arts
320 S. Broad Street in Center City, Philadelphia
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25

January - March 2011

Landscape Techne
little berlin
119 West Montgomery Philadelphia PA, 19122

Opening Friday, November 5, 6-10 pm. Visit during gallery hours, each Saturday, 12-5 pm through November 27 or by appointment.

FORECAST
little berlin
119 West Montgomery Philadelphia PA, 19122
June 12 through July 10

Opening Saturday, June 12 from 6 to 10pm. Visit during gallery hours, each Saturday, 12-5 pm through July 10th or by appointment.

Mira Schor has just published a survey of her writings entitled A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life in which she mentions the research and activist performances of Brainstormers.

NYFA Current features Brainstormers

New York Foundation for the Arts' regularly-produced publication features On Being Brainstormers written by Yona Zeldis McDonough.

posted on August 2009

tART @ A.I.R.

August 1 – August 29, 2009
Opening Reception August 6, 6-8pm

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228, Brooklyn, NY
in D.U.M.B.O.

posted on August 2009

Brainstormers sound installation at the LGBT Center

then and now: site specific works in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots
Exhibition June 1, 2009 - September 4, 2009
Benefit Opening Reception: May 28, 2009 at 6:30-8:30 PM

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011
The Center is between 7th and 8th Aves (map)
Center Hours

posted on May 2009

The Society of Korean Photography features Safe At Home in Photo Speaks 2009 catalogue and in the International Festival for Photography and Video Exhibition
at the GoEun Museum of Photography

February 8 - March 13, 2009

GoEun Museum of Photography
2 onchun-gil Haeundae-Ku Busan 612-847, Korea
webmaster@goeunmuseum.org

 

Brooklyn Arts Council screens video, Eleventh Floor

Thursday, December 4 at 6pm

BAC Gallery presents a screening of shorts in conjunction with the exhibition Creative Cartographies, curated by Jeanne Gerrity, now on-view in BAC Gallery. This is also part of DUMBO 1st Thursday where the galleries in the neighborhood have other events and stay open later.

posted on December 2008

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The Brooklyn Rail's November issue features Brainstormers
the collaborative group I have been involved with for a couple of years now with artists Elaine Kaufmann, Danielle Mysliwiec, and Anne Polashenski. Brainstormers collaborated with the Guerilla Girls in this project.

posted on November 2008.

Brainstormers (in collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls) Get Mad again!

SATURDAY, September 13, 2008, afternoon.
We'll be in Chelsea with gorilla masks and brain helmets

posted on September 8, 2008

13 Blood Samples* in group show at Rabbitholestudio Gallery

Rabbitholestudio presents SUMMER SALON SHOW, a group show that features recent work by members of the tART artist collective.

July 3rd, 2008 - August 1st, 2008
Opening reception Thursday, July 3rd, 5-9p
Gallery hours: Wed-Fri 6-8p and by appointment through August 1st

RABBITHOLESTUDIO, 33 WASHINGTON ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11201

*13 Blood Samples will be posted on website soon!

posted on June 29, 2008

The Go Show and Interrogation Mark (Stadium 1) featured in group show, The Main Event at Schroeder Romero Gallery.

June 27 - July 25, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, June 27, 6-8pm

Schroeder Romero Gallery
637 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
T: 212 630 0722
www.schroederromero.com

Artwork By
Maria Dumlao, Jane Johnston, & Elaine Kaufmann, Alex Brown, Rob Carter, Institute for Aesthletics, Marisa Olson, Javier Piñón, Shannon Plumb, Justin Rancourt & Chuck Yatsuk, Fernando Sanchez, Tom Sanford, Jessica Tam, Lee Walton

Curated by Thomas Seely and Trey Edwards

posted on June 27, 2008

NY ARTS Magazine features Private Eye

NY Arts Magazine features a personal statement about my work.

posted on June 10, 2008

Brainstormers (in collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls) performs at
the Bronx Museum of Art

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008, 12:00 to 6:00 pm
A Day of Collaborative Performance
North Wing—2nd Floor
Admission: $5.00, free for Bronx Museum members

Contemporary collectives do outrageous Work! A day long performance at the Museum.

posted on February 16, 2008

Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art About the Art World

Momenta Art
Reception: Friday, November 16, 7-9 pm

Air Kissing explores the double-bind faced by artists – who are forced to navigate their desire to work (and succeed) in a world they hold in low regard.

Included are works by Alex Bag, Conrad Bakker, Brainstormers, Lizette Kabré with Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser & Jeff Preiss, David Hammons, Jason Irwin, Lee Lozano, James Mills, Elena Nemkova, Carl Pope, William Powhida, William Bryan Purcell, Mira Schor, and Amanda Trager.

posted on November 15, 2007

Brainstormers Published in Women's Studies Quarterly

A Brainstormers photo essay is featured in Women's Studies Quarterly's new edition on Activisms (Volume 35, Numbers 3&4). Women's Studies Quarterly is an Educational Project of the Feminist Press at CUNY and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

posted on October 6, 2007

Chris Forsyth and Nate Wooley's The Duchess of Oysterville CD is out now on the Creative Sources label from Portugal, and available from Evolving Ear. This, the first documentation of their 4-year old collaboration, is a fine bleak beauty, recorded nearly two years ago and happily seeing the light of day now. The piece's 25 minutes pass by like an afternoon nap on a high mountain top or in an abandoned lot, depending on your experience or inclination - take your pick. Intensity, unpredictability, and restraint meet in the hands of two intelligent and idiosyncratic players and categories such as lowercase, noise, electro-acoustic, improvisation and composition become irrelevant.

Both TINY MIX TAPES and THE WIRE reviews reference the artwork on The Duchess of Oysterville.

posted on July 17, 2007

Brainstormers performs at Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Brainstormers performed at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum on May 5, 2007. The project involved a survey for visitors to the Museum as well as a demonstration of activist tips.

posted on May 10, 2007

41st BAC International Film & Video Festival Officially Selects Brainstormers Weather Report

On May 5th, Brainstormer's Weather Report will have it's world premiere screening at the 41st BAC International Film & Video Festival at 2pm in the Cantor Auditorium in the Brooklyn Museum. The screening is free with museum admission.

posted on May 4, 2007

Brainstormers recently featured on ARTNET.com

Written by Ben Davis, White Walls, Glass Ceiling, is an insightful and important analysis of gender discrimination in the art world.

posted on April 1, 2007