Join us Saturday, February 10th from 7pm to 9pm in the Compound Yellow Studio for:
Ephemeral Improvisations vol.1 : David Boykin and Juarez Hawkins
Come early to see the beautiful new work of Luis Romero!
Experimental improvisational duet between saxophonist and drummer David Boykin and painter Juarez Hawkins. The duet will be structured by the quote from Eric Dolphy regarding the ephemerality of music: “When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.” Toward this end, Jaurez Hawkins will be improvising using only water and brushes on water color paper so that the images she creates will gradually disappear as do the notes that David Boykin will be playing on his reeds and drumset.
David Boykin is one of the most important and enigmatic musicians of Chicago’s creative music scene in the recent era. He is a revolutionary storyteller working in the mediums of: music composition, band leading, saxophone shamanism, afro-electronic soul singing, rapping, beat producing, conceptual art, and film making. He has released over 20 album length recordings while performing in venues large and small from Hong Kong, to Dakar, to Moscow, to Paris, to St Louis in the last 24 years. He has exhibited artwork at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Art Department.
Juarez Hawkins is an artist, educator and curator. She received a B.A. from Northwestern University, and her M.A. from Columbia College Chicago. Juarez has exhibited widely, hosting solo exhibitions at Concordia University, the 33 Collective Gallery, and the South Side Community Art Center. As Co-Curator of Gallery Programs at Chicago State University, she organized exhibitions from the permanent collection, as well as student work, and established artists including Richard Hunt and Marva Pitchford Jolly. Juarez is a member of Sapphire and Crystals, a collective of African American female artists.
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