The last day to see my show at Dorsch Gallery is June 4th!

Solo show at Dorsch Gallery in Miami!

Friday, April 8, 2011 - Saturday, June 4, 2011

Opening reception Friday, April 8, 2011, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

http://dorschgallery.com/exhibition/142/

Physical Spectrum, at Los Caminos in Saint Louis, is closing this week.
Here are two reviews to convince you to go see it:

Test your perceptions at Los Caminos in the St. Louis Beacon, by Ivy Cooper, March 3 2011

Brookhart Jonquil: Physical Spectrum in The Riverfront Times, by Jessica Baran, Feb 17 2011

February 5 – March 12, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

SAINT LOUIS: Los Caminos is pleased to present Physical Spectrum, the first presentation of Brookhart Jonquil’s work in St. Louis. Physical Spectrum brings together the artist’s recent photographs, sculptures, and site-specific installations, engaging viewers in the physical and psychological processes of perception, and transforming the apartment gallery into a place of disorientation and discovery.

Throughout this exhibition, Jonquil uses the material qualities of mirrors, glass, and digital photographs to probe the relationship between the physical and the virtual or intangible. “In my work,” he explains, “I attempt to access this paradoxical duality, creating uncanny situations where a space, an object, or a moment in time, seems to contradict its own existence.” For instance, in Envelope, a large-scale installation that occupies a corner of the gallery, Jonquil simultaneously opens up and collapses the physical space of the room. In a nod to Gerhard Richter’s 11 Panes (2003), Jonquil engages the viewer’s material, spatial, and conceptual understanding of representation.

In his recent photographic series, Jonquil digitally rearranges the space of the image to create new prismatic structures within the scene. In Biosphere Light Structure, for example, Jonquil manipulated a photograph of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, the world’s largest closed ecological system. The Biosphere 2 is a building which itself is a fragmented and rearranged reflection of its environment. Using digital media to sketch out ideas before setting to work, Jonquil’s photographic process mirrors his approach towards conceptualizing sculptures and installations. The photographs, sculptures, and installations that materialize from Jonquil’s sketches retain the qualities of their intangible origin, thus taking on a disorienting sense of the impossible.

Physical Spectrum
February 5 – March 12, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5, 7-10pm

http://www.loscaminosart.com/

More information soon!

I’m in a four person group show in Bridgeport, it’ll be good, see you there!

January 21 to February 11, 2011

33 Collective Gallery

Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W. 35th St. First Floor
Chicago, IL 60609
Ph. 708-837-4534

Opening Reception:
Friday, January 21 from 7 to 10 pm

Runs through February 11

The exhibition aims to explore and challenge the themes of conflict, displacement, and personal identity. Featuring four artists: Emilie Crewe, Brookhart Jonquil, Wang Yefeng, and Lee Xie, the exhibition invites the viewer to renegotiate their perception of a global society. The work presented in this exhibition conceptually and physically intervenes and de-constructs objects, space, ideas and the individual body, in order to formulate new identities. Curated by Cheng-Yung Kuo.

Bubble Raft
September 1 - October 2, 2010

Opening reception Wednesday September 1, 7-10pm
with live music by Boise Bob and His Backyard Band, Dino Felipe, Pocket of Lollipops, Viking Funeral and Otto von Schirach

Featuring works by:
Bhakti Baxter, Christopher Bradley, Bruce Conkle, Robin Griffiths, Richard Haden, Jay Hines, Brookhart Jonquil, Sinisa Kukec, Justin H. Long, David Marsh, Daniel Nevers, Daniel Newman, Matt Nichols, Brandon Opalka, Cheryl Pope, Ralph Provisero, Carlos Rigau, Audrey Hasen Russell, David Shaw, Shoplifter, Magnus Sigurdarson, sleeper, TooT and Kyle Trowbridge.

Here’s the exhibition’s story -
The atomic structure of metal is imperfect. The atoms group together in an interlocking hexagonal pattern, but there are inconsistencies in the pattern that are hard to predict. The raft of bubbles on the surface of a liquid, called a bubble raft, is a naturally occurring model of the interlocking hexagonal pattern at the molecular level of metals. The bubble raft also models the defects in the pattern.

The bubble raft evokes the generative stage of the exhibition. Bubbles, like objects, can exist on their own. This exhibition was formed from recent experiences seeing work and studio visits. Many of the works that resonated were sculptural - specifically objects and not installation. Independent bubbles rise to the surface and join with others. The objects’ physical form, combination of materials, absurdity and subtle humor begged comparison to one another, especially when shown together in an exhibition.

A bubble raft has its own inherent dynamics, like metal, or a practice, or an exhibition.

Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
Hours: Tue-Sat, 12-5
dorschgallery.com

I’ll have a brand new piece at this venerable institution next Saturday. Check out the great line-up!
opening: 6-10pm, June 5, 2010
1626 N. California
2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60647

Carson Fisk-Vitori
Chad Kouri
Brookhart Jonquil
Rachel Niffenegger
Luke Willard
Scott Jarrett
Mark Beasley
Robert Andrade
Omair Hussain
Jes Takla

It’s official, I’m now a diplomatized master of fine art! Käthe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls was the keynote speaker and gave a great anti-establishment call to arms. School officials gave awkward sales pitches and one jerk kept saying weird things about Chicago not being such a great place while trying to ad lib metaphors about the fog.

Noble & Superior Projects presents ALPHABETIZATION featuring the work of Brandon Alvendia, Scott Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Brookhart Jonquil and Daniel Lavitt and guest curated by Ania Szremski.
Opening Friday, May 7 at 6:00pm
through Wednesday, June 2
Noble & Superior Projects
1418 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL

These five artists explore methods of transforming language—through speech, academic texts and historical narratives—into experiences.

Daniel Lavitt’s GRAPEVINE, an interactive telecommunications network, and Brandon Alvendia’s distribution series, REMAINDERS, create a site of dissemination for spoken word and text pulled from the public domain and from the physical site.
ON MATTER, ON MEMORIES is Scott Carter’s installation explores the way shifting patterns of words affect memory of an event as strips of paper haphazardly collect around the gallery.
Brookhart Jonquil’s Untitled (ESSAY WITHOUT WORDS NO. 1) and Eric Fleischauer’s ASSIGNED AND RECOMMENDED explore, through the written page and physical space, both the fragile, ephemeral nature of language and its ability to overwhelm.

Noble & Superior Projects is a contemporary art gallery featuring emerging and established artists who challenge the boundaries of their medium. Co-Curators Patrick Bobilin and Erin Nixon employ their combined experience and expertise to create unique interactions with innovative and accessible media.