Sarah Wagner and Jon Brumit are an accomplished artist team and couple of over 17 years. They have collaborated successfully on countless projects ranging from remodeling jobs to teaching at the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco or the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to such creative works such as 'Life Laws', an evolving collection of humiliating life-lessons and absurdist cautionary tales and 'Bridge Music', a public sound piece in which they conducted traffic using speed limit signs over one of their favorite singing bridges, wherein a faint and abstracted rendition of 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' could be heard emanating from the chorus of car tires on metal grating over the course of 30 minutes.
Their passion for design-build efforts, coupled with storytelling, problem-solving, rigorous research and good old-fashioned bike-riding, has led them to their newest collaborative endeavor, utilizing their $100 house in Detroit as the studio hub for a seasonal residency program: DFLUX.ORG, the Detroit Research Studio, in efforts to explore, celebrate and publish or broadcast reports from the complex and vibrant surrounding neighborhood.
They have exhibited their solo and collaborative works extensively in exhibitions ranging from museum shows to alternative spaces and from apartment galleries to formerly-vacant public-access storefronts. Their work has been in the Whitney Biennial, SF Museum of Craft & Folk Art, Novi Sad Serbia Contemporary Museum, Artists Television Access, Homie (Berlin), In-F (Tokyo) and has been included in several corporate collections such as Microsoft, PG&E and the San Francisco Recycling & Disposal. Furthermore, reviews and images of their work have been published in Art Papers, Penthouse, ArtForum, the New York Times and Punk Planet. They've been awarded numerous residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan and consider themselves very fortunate to have received awards and commissions from the Creative Work Fund, CEC ArtsLink, Pollack-Krasner and the San Jose Public Arts Commission, among others.
