Opening Reception of Drifting off to Dreamland Exhibition: A collaboration between Claire Burke Dain and Albert Reid Owens
6:00 PM Musical performance by Cowboy Jane

On view from October 18th to November 15th
Email info@compoundyellow.com for appointment to view the exhibition.

This is the work of Claire and Albert. The remnants of apartment hallways, window frames and basement scenes. The work is for humming, holding notes, not singing. In an apartment music plays. A hand runs through the fur of a dog. Out of the window are hundreds of other windows and in each one a hand runs through the fur of a dog. Here this is, the music left on, the maps folded up and dreamland drifts in.

Claire Burke Dain is a painter and educator who lives in Chicago. She has worked as a scenic designer and props designer in New York and Chicago. She received her BFA in Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Claire approaches painting by attempting to make shapes that balance each other and fit together. The colors are there to establish patterns and links between shapes. There are figurative elements as a way to portray human emotion. Some of the links are hostile or perverse because they are figures trapped and intertwined. At the end of the day she creates attractive patterned portraits that contain little people who are forced to act as a group.

Albert Reid Owens is an artist living and working in Chicago. He is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at SAIC. He also holds a post-graduate certification from the Glasgow School of Art and a BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Albert maintains an interdisciplinary practice split between poetry, visual art, and architecture. The work Albert produces functions like music left on in the home while you go about your day. It is there, You hum its recognizable tune and speak the chorus aloud. A lyric generates a playback of imagery in succession. A repeating set of lived experiences float through— days, people, objects, fade in and out. The song played a hundred times is not listened to closely. The song allows you to project yourself against it. This claim for what the work strives to achieve is asserted through the use of handwritten text and concise mark- making. The text is derived from Alberts poems which are purposely camouflaged within the work to strip the text of a singular authorship. The work is ultimately made to hang in the home, to be the music left on.