Members
Maria Dumlao, Elaine Kaufmann, Danielle Mysliwiec, and Anne Polashenski
Education
MFA Hunter College--2003, 2004
Exhibitions
then and now: site specific works in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 2009, curated by Chris Hanway
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Arcadia University Art Gallery, 2008, curated by Sasha Archibald
Air Kissing, Contemporary Art About the Art World, Momenta Art, Nov. 16th - Dec. 17th 2007
Redhead, curated by Seth Cameron at LMCC, New York, 2006.
Performances
Get Mad, a collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls, Chelsea Gallery district, September 2008
Get Mad, a collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2008
Have You Seen & Herd?, Brainstormers Performance, 5 May, 2007, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Made possible by the Puffin Foundation and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
How Good Are You?, 11 March 2006, corner of 12th Ave & 50th Street, across from Armory Show, Pier 90, New York, NY.
Point, 13 March 2005, Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York
Publications
Brainstormers Report: Scene and Herd, Vol. 2, May 2007
Brainstormers Report Gallery Guide, Chelsea Issue, Vol. 1, March 2006
Brainstormers Report Photo Essay, Women’s Studies Quarterly, “Activisms,” Vol. 35, Spring 2007
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.“The Cutting Edge and The Corporate Agenda,” Women & Environments International Magazine, Published by the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Spring 2007
Awards
2007 Grant from the Puffin Foundation.Bibliography
Birnir, Adda, Feminism Blurs Line Between Art, Politics, Yale Daily News, April 17, 2007
Davis, Ben, White Walls, Glass Ceiling, Artnet.com, March 12, 2007, Cover Story
Fry, Warren, The Brainstormers, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2008
McDonough, Yona Zeldis, On Being Brainstormers, NYFA Current, August 2009
Reckitt, Helena, Who Wants to Be A Feminist Artist?
Taylor, Kate, Feminism Goes Back Under the Lens, New York Sun, March 2, 2007
Zimmer, Amy, A Place at the Table, Metro New York, March 23, 2007, pg. 2
Press and Blog Coverage related to Brainstormers’ Performance - “How Good Are You?”:
Carter, Robert, Mixed Greens Blog, March 13, 2006, Brainstorming the Armory? http://www.thepit.typepad.com/Fette’s Flog, March 13th 2006, http://www.the-flog.com/current.html
Johnson, Paddy, Special Report: There is a Hole, March 7, 2006, www.artfagcity.blogspot.com
Anonymous Female Artist (A.K.A. Militant Art Bitch), Von Heyl Gets Her Due + Brainstormer Action, March, 13th 2006, http://anonymousfemaleartist.blogspot.com/
Press and Blog Coverage related to Brainstormers, gender inequality, and “Greater New York 2005”:Zimmerman, Amy, "PS1 Show Biased Against Women" Cover Story, Metro
Newspaper, NY edition, Monday, March 14, 2005Robinson, Walter, "Artists Protest Greater New York," Artnet.com,
March 15, 2005 http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews3-15-05.aspIlel, Nell, "Young Artists and Their Admirers Flock to LIC for PS1's Latest," Queens Chronicle,
March 17, 2005
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1863&dept_id=152670&newsid=14168741&PAG=461&rfi=9Kimmelman, Michael, “youth and the Market, Love at First Sight,” The New York Times, March 18 (Brainstormers is the picketing “clutch”):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/18KIMM.html?hpFallon, Roberta, and Rosof, Libby, "Greater Than What?" Fallon and Rosof's Artblog, March 15, 2005
http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/03/greater-than-what.htmlMTAA-RR, Greater New York Gender Equality, February 12, 2006
http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/greater_new_york_gender_equality.htmlAll images and research on this website are copyright of the artists, ©2005-2009 Brainstormers
