Stephanie Brooks

Education: BFA, 1994, Ohio University, Athens; MFA, 1997, University of Illinois at Chicago. Exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center; Columbus, Ohio; Rotunda, NY; New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville; Memphis, TN; New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA; Milwaukee, WI; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Gallery 400, Chicago; Kendall College, Grand Rapids, MI; San Francisco, CA. International Exhibitions: Berlin, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, London, and Vienna. Commissions: City of Chicago; The City of Phoenix, AZ; University of Arizona. Recent Publications: Green Lantern Press, Illinois State University Press, PrintText, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Perennial Press. Collections: Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Microsoft, Phillip Morris/Altria, The MacArthur Foundation.

My sculptural works are fueled by the visual, physical, verbal and written. Equations, equivalents, and norms are in distress and readdressed in my art practice.

With my sculptures, I investigate and interrogate systems in our built, affective, textual, canonical and public environments. Through object-making, the works create complexities in order to expose the multiplicities of meaning inherent in the locations of forms. My artworks insert alternative narratives within, around and through the locations minimalism, building, abstraction, language, humor, and textuality.