PRELUDE 2026: Manhunter

RSVPs don't guarantee a seat, so we recommend arriving early. Late entry will not be permitted. MANHUNTER is a work in progress series of videos, facial prosthetics, and performances surrounding Jake Brush's experience receiving a series of anonymous, sexually explicit voicemails. After identifying the caller, Brush invited him to his studio to have a conversation about his life and create a silicone mold of his head. The completed work will volley between video documentation of this encounter, exaggerated reenactments of it featuring performers wearing prosthetic applications of the caller's face, and CGI animations. Through this approach, MANHUNTER intends to explore the dark side of digital lust and confront the boundaries of anonymity.

For Prelude, Brush will present a video installation featuring footage from the mold making process and the conversation with the caller, alongside casts of the caller's face, the original voicemails, and wearable prosthetic pieces.

Saturday, October 10, 2026. Installation on view 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Performance by Jake Brush and panel discussion with Dylan Sherman at 3:00pm.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jake Brush (b. 1994) is an artist living in New York. He is interested in reality television, gossip, and interpersonal conflicts. He works in video, performance, sculpture and installation. Recent work has shown at Wave Hill, Duplex, The Shed, International Objects, Below Grand, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Nina Johnson Gallery, MIX Film Festival, and Electronic Arts Intermix. He has participated in residency programs Shandaken: Storm King, Signal Culture, and the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred State. His work has been featured in BOMB and Cultured Magazine. His first European solo exhibition, “Mall, Interrupted,” opened with Kunstplaats Vonk (Hasselt, Belgium) in May 2025. His video work is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.