A casual presentation, open to the public. The address is 112 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, Il 60647.

I was invited to build a site specific installation in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Tucson, Arizona. The Museum has recently received a major grant from the Warhol Initiative and has moved to an impressive new location, formerly the Fire Department headquarters in downtown Tucson. My piece, Distance and Distortion, occupies a 23ft shaft, formerly the place of the fire-pole. This is the inaugural exhibition for the museum’s new building, the opening is March 6th.

The Exhibition Usefulness: Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction is now viewable in the storefront windows on the NE corner of Wabash and Monroe (the Sharp Building). Curated by Cecilia Vargas, this show features my piece On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox.

Excerpts from the catalog by Cecilia Vargas and Greg Stuart:

Brookhart Jonquil’s work, On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox, confounds our sense of time and space, working off the assumption that crumpling a piece of paper is a singular act, performed in a specific time and a particular space. By presenting six mimetically crumpled papers (Bell’s Theorum whose content is inaccessible to us and seem like remnants of cast off ideas), one is led to question the evidence, and wonder if the same action is happening in different spaces, repetitively, simultaneously or somehow entangled.

Use Value and Access in Contemporary Art

In Das Kapital, Karl Marx makes the distinction between use-value and other, more abstract kinds of value, including exchange and labor value.1 Indeed, use-value is only one particular form of value. Something need not have use-value to have exchange value, and vice versa. Art is often seen as having no use-value whatsoever, despite typically having an exorbitant amount of commodity value. Then what does one do with art when it specifically challenges its own usefulness, incorporating materials from the so-called “useful” world? This question has been frequently raised in art history by Cubist collages, Dada and neo-Dada assemblages, postminimalist sculpture, and continues to be as persistent as ever. The artists in this exhibition enter this dialogue in their own unique ways, complicating the issue through the themes of labor, reclamation, and social critique. However, perhaps the most prescient issue they tackle is mediation’s role in how we defining value and usefulness. It is only through the distance of mediation that we can ask ourselves what these terms mean and how they apply to contemporary art. It is through the mediation of an object’s “art” status that the useful is redefined.

Come see my brand-new, one night only installation “Double Negative” at
LiveBox Labs
curated by Patrick Cunningham and Catherine Forster
Location: Splat Flats Studios, Miller Lumber Building,
1815-25 W. Division Street (east and west wings)
From 6pm until midnight
Each artist was given one studio and two weeks to create
site specific work.
This is a fundraiser for Around the Coyote, which is teetering on the brink of extinction, so they’re asking for a $30 donation. Obviously that’s nuts so don’t let it deter you, I’m sure they’d rather have five bucks than nothing at all. So come drink some grolsch and champagne and check out the work, its going to be good!

Participating Artists:

Studio 24E - Jonas Sebura
Studio 25E - Brookhart Jonquil
Studio 26E - Xavier Jimenez
Studio 29E - Mik Kastner
Studio 32E - Gary Pennock
Studio 33E - Eric Ashcraft
Studio 35E - Ryan Dunn
Studio 36E - Ben Rosenburg
Studio 37E - Markus Vogl and Margarita Benitez
Studio 38E - TBA

Studio 21W - Mark Beasley and Isabella Ng
Studio 22W - Sam Jaffe
Studio 23W - Yefeng Wang
Studio 25W - Nicholas O’Brien
Studio 33W – Jared Weiss
Studio 34W - Holly Murkerson
Studio 35W - Shirin Mozaffari

Outdoor Gallery - Scott Jarrett
Courtyard - Alex Lee

Choreographed by Davy Bisaro with costumes by Liliya Lifanova. I’m performing the part of a pawn in this 32 person chess-inspired performance.

Tuesday, September 8th at 4pm. Opening at Gallery X at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Friday, September 11th at 5:30pm. At the Church of the Epiphany

Check out costumes and diagrams at www.sissyfuss.us

Here’s a new piece I’m working on, it should be done very soon. It’s graphite on masonite. I start by drawing my self portrait, and keep working it until my drawn image is replaced by my image reflected in the graphite (or the reflection of anyone looking at it).

It’s finished! A two page comic written by me and drawn by the very talented Sanya Glisic! See it on her blog here.

Sugar – Video and New Media Art curated by LiveBox
Around The Coyote Spring Festival

“Sugar” is a multidisciplinary exhibition of art practices devoted to the arenas of computer imaging, digital video, digital sound, interactive media, computer animation, three-dimensional modeling, computer-controlled kinetic sculpture, interactive installations, and computer-aided and algorithmic composition. Participating artists are current students or alumni of the Art and Technology Department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.The exhibition was curated by Catherine Forster and Patrick Cunningham (MFA Art & Technology) and made possible by support from Claudia Hart (Art & Technology Faculty).
Participating artists: Ben Carney and Cassandra Jackson, Spencer Paul Hutchinson, Brookhart Jonquil, Mik Kastner, Alex M. Lee, Shane Mecklenburger, Surbhi Saraf, Micah Schippa, Sandra Rosas Ridolfi, Wonbin Yang

Friday night performance: Justin Block
Saturday night performance: Matt Griffin, Mark Franz, and Ryan Dunn collaboration

1234 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago - May 29-31
Friday, May 29: Opening Party
VIP preview, 6:30pm
General Public, 7:30pm- 11pm
Saturday, May 30: noon-10pm
Sunday, May 31: noon-6pm

I’ll be in a curated section of this year’s Around the Coyote art festival in Bucktown, along with a lot of friends. This is going to be a great show! Opening night is Friday, May 29 from 7:30pm until 11. It will continue Saturday and Sunday.
Around the Coyote will take place in a number of locations, this show will be at 1234 Milwaukee Ave, near the Division Blue Line stop.

here are a few pics from the show