October 17 - November 4, 2009: Visions is a multimedia exhibition on perceiving that which exists outside of the visual "reality". Visions begins at the point of premonition or foresight and goes on to explore the psychological immediacy present in the sensory rather than the purely visual. The content of the pieces deal with that which exists in the ether, beyond grasp, often beyond understanding.
Visions is the eighth art exhibition presented by The Blood Dumpster art collective. The Blood Dumpster art collective is primarily based out of New York City, with members from all over the country. The collective primarily operates by presenting a particular theme and allowing its members to explore and express their varied interpretations in a variety of mediums.

Participating artists: Rebecca Memoli, Jeff Moore, Melissa Dowell, Tim Kellen, Kristen Terrana, Matthew Brennan, Megan Van Deusen, Vincent True, James Jajac, Michael Alan

October 3 - October 17, 2009. Participating artists: Rebecca Memoli, Jeff Moore, Melissa Dowell, Tim Kellen, Jason Orrell, Brian Edgerton, Evan Dalcher, Zofia Bogusz, Caroline Faracas, Ashley Hildreth, Neal Aultman, Robin Scott, Larissa Penson, Jody Jock, Vincent True, Aubrey Roemer, Paige Pumphrey, Katelan Foisy, Michael Alan, Guillermo Riveros

"Can't Not" will explore the notion of "repetition compulsion". Those behaviors, actions, or thoughts that reoccur. Situations may appear different but a mastery of the original failure is always at stake. Failure is inevitable, but the subject never recognizes the cyclical nature of their behavior. From this notion the collective will explore how art and art making is in of itself a cyclical pattern. Rituals, traditions, and superstitions will be explored.
The Blood Dumpster Collective examines the idea of repetition at the level of narrative, process, and aesthetics. Often with an overlapping intent in these fields, the collective will trace personal circles through their individual histories. The subject of the self will be on predominant display as our artists explore the points on a graph they so often revisit.

Participating artists: Jeff Moore, Rebecca Memoli, Tim Kellen, Gillian Wilson, Jody Jock, Norah Mays.

May 10 - 24th, 2008. We are proud to present the Renovation show by the Blood Dumpster art collective of Brooklyn, NY. The show focuses on analyzing the works from the Renaissance and presenting them in a contemporary context. Few periods of art have held quite the impact as the Renaissance, whether it was learning from the techniques of rendering and composition to even a complete rebellion against it. The works from that time challenged both painter and the viewer's way of thinking. The exhibit holds a variety of art in the style and with the techniques of Renaissance masters with a focus on perspective, chiaroscuro, realism, and meticulous composition. However, in true Blood Dumpster fashion, the artists find the darker side of these classical themes and apply an ominous tone. Various works focus on religion's role in the present, allegories of today and modern myth. Many emphasize mathematics and sciences that develop our current technologies and that which we are on the brink of discovering and developing. Classical studies of figures with a modern ideal of the body as well as reinterpretations of classic compositions and imagery will be present.

Participating artists: Rebecca memoli, Jeff Moore, Melissa Dowell, Tim Kellen, Evan Dalcher, Zofia Bogusz, Caroine Faracas, Ashley Hildreth, Alexander Lill, Kristen Terrana, Yanick Salazaar, Anna Weber, Kimberly Sheridan, Neal Aultman, Robin Scott, Megan Van Deusen, Jennifer Laga, Gnatalie McLauren.

June 1st, 2008. Desire is usually defined as "a strong wish or craving."
Moreover, desire is an endless machine, always reproducing, reconfiguring, adjusting, modifying, and transforming. This is how desire continues, through the constant reproduction of itself. Desire is never satisfied, nor ever complete, always filtered through fantasy, a sea of partial objects, a bundle of fragments sewn together. Inevitable Failure, a multimedia art exhibition, seeks to display desire, its failures and the objects that temporarily or partially "satisfy" it.
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the term desire designates the impossible relation that a subject has with objet petit a. According to Lacan, desire (in contrast with a demand) can never be fulfilled. Inevitable Failure will primarily be an exploration of objects: object fetishism, materialism, Lacan's "objet petit a" (the thing which placates, distracts, or delays desire).
Beyond the superficial and materialistic, the collective will explore exactly what it is we desire and where these desires originate.
"The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire? There is nothing spontaneous, nothing natural about human desire. Our desires are artificial. We have to be taught to desire." – Slavoj Zizek

Participating artists: Rebecca Memoli, Jeff Moore, Tim Kellen, Jason Orrell, Brian Edgerton, Evan Dalcher, Anna Weber, Gillian Wilson, Galina Kurlat, Megan Van Deusen, Josh Wolitzki, Jody Jock, Vincent True, James Jajac.

Post Apocalypse.

Participating artists: Rebecca Memoli, Jeff Moore, Melissa Dowell, Tim Kellen, Jason Orrell, Brian Edgerton, Evan Dalcher, Neal Aultman, Matthew Brennan, Galina Kurlat, Megan Van Deusen, Jennifer Laga, Gnatalie McLauren