Oak Park, IL (Compound Yellow)
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Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Jenn Eisner
ladder for going home
This ladder made of branches from a special place offers an alternate route into the home a place to rest the imagination, a return to a realm of fairies, and a pathway for your eyes to follow through the tree.
Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Madeleine Aguilar
deck dock
deck dock is a platform for rest & reflection, for listening & observing, for play & performance, for stargazing & bird watching, for private practices & public gatherings, located in the side yard of Compound Yellow, an artist-run space & private residence in Oak Park, IL
Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Maria Burundarena and Teagan Prichard
I need a Sharper Stone
Reflective emergency blankets wrap a 12 foot tall Ladder laid against Gallery X at Compound Yellow.
The work connects pavement to air.
Its wrapped surface is a silver optical illusion,
Distorting and reflecting the surrounding traffic signals and sidewalks. One that twist and mirrors those who pass by.
Like water, the mirrored wrapping material is flexible and does not adhere to a fixed form or shape. By contouring the ladder, we explore the boundaries of the physical properties of reflection as a material in and of itself.
In connection to ladders as a gesture, we question the relationship between how one experiences and understands what they see, and the depth of sight as a feeling.
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Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Industry of the Ordinary
Disclaimer
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
In his novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera explored how people tolerate suffering over which they have no control. Kundera was remembering his homeland of Czechoslovakia under Soviet control, but we might re-imagine his warning in a contemporary landscape, poisoned by corporate greed and scarred by the unchecked influence of capital.
Evil often happens with quiet official approval.
Through a variety of means, Industry of the Ordinary have reused a standard, boiler-plate corporate disclaimer, presented in various forms, including aerial banners, printed paper bags, Xeroxes, printed banners and letterpress prints.
Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Hui-min Tsen
Scenes
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Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Keeley Haftner
Tesselescence (Umbrella Flag) World Thrift Day
Artist Keeley Haftner invites Terrain Biennial viewers to mark World Thrift Day at Compound Yellow in Oak Park with the newest in her series of “Umbrella Flags” titled “Tesselescence (World Thrift Day).” To produce the flag, Haftner collected broken umbrellas from city streets and “harvested” their nylon fabric to create a patchwork flag. One side displays a logo designed to encourage the upcycling/recycling/reusing of unwanted fabric, while the other embodies these practices. On October 21st, Haftner delivered a public “Informative Performative Lecture” that debunked misinformation about recycling in Chicagoland and recycling in general, through the lens of her own art practice (special thanks to Lisa Walcott for her “sculptural assistance”). Afterward, a workshop was held in which participants learned how to make their own garments from scrap fabric, and crochet with plastic bags. The recorded lecture will be made available on Haftner’s website.
Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Laura Bustamante
Tocando la resilencia (Playing resilience)
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Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Leslie Baum
sunflowers: a garden of some
This piece, informed by early autumn’s sunflowers and the prairie flora, is not meant to endure. Thin cotton paintings adorn the stairs at CY. With each passing day, the colors will fade. Some paintings will come loose and disappear, leaving behind a color echo on the wood surface. Other’s might cry pigmented tears in the rain. Such echoes and tears linger on the painted white cinder blocks of the neighboring structure from my March 2023 exhibition. Taken together, the pieces archive time.
Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Johnny Doley
Room and Board for Compound Birds
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123 Compound Yellow, 244 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
Marianne Fairbanks
Home Textiles
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