Brumfield LLC Doing Business As Basement Gallery

Brumfield LLC is a husband and wife team, Mike and Jane Brumfield. The couple moved to Boise in December 2008. They had owned the Weekend Gallery in Hastings on the English South Coast and were keen to become actively involved in the art scene at their new home. The Basement Gallery was founded by Perry Allen in 1988, launching the careers of many young Boise artists ,and becoming a cornerstone of the Boise art scene. The Brumfield's bought the gallery in January 2010.

The gallery is curated by Jane, and there is a definite leaning towards contemporary figurative, surreal and narrative art with a definite edginess. "We favour work which demonstrates the eccentricities, fragilities and irrational nature of the human condition. Although some of the work may lean towards the strange and/or macabre there is always a thread of humour or glimmer of optimism." Jane Brumfield has over 20 years of experience curating exhibitions. Much of this was spent in the publicly funded gallery sector in the UK.

Mike Brumfield comes from a different field, having worked if the oil and gas drilling industry for 30 years. His input gives the gallery a second eye, which serves to keep the program fresh. His focus is more on the business side of keeping a gallery afloat, and he has become a very skilled custom framer.

The Basement Gallery remains an active provocateur on the Boise scene and is perhaps one of the most exciting spaces in Idaho's State Capital with its mix of contemporary American and British art.

Artists Submissions

We are programed 18 months ahead, and there are very few opportunities to for us to respond to unsolicited submissions from new artists. We are always interested in seeing new work, but realistically, we rarely incorporatate artists who have approached us in this way. Generally we find artist through our own research. We can not accomodate artists making unsolicited visits to the gallery. Please do not submit your work to us if it would not obviously fit in with the charater and nature of the gallery. This is based on our taste, which, although fairly eclectic does favour contemporary figurative, surreal and narrative art with a definite edginess.

Should you still decide to submit your work to us, please do this by email. You may send a link to a website or attach jpeg images. We need to see enough of your work to get a good idea, but do not send too many images - about 6-10 is plenty. Please do not send powerpoint presentations or multipage PDFs. We prefer to receive images as separate jpeg files. Please format you images so each file does not exceed 100KB, or each email 1MB.

We will only go on to arrange a gallery appointment or studio visit if we feel that the work is, not only of a high quality, but will fit in with the nature of the gallery. We take on very few artists by submission finding most of our artist through our own research.