THIS | ALBERTO AGUILAR AND ALEX BRADLEY COHEN

March 26, 2021 6pm - 9pm

Compound Yellow is beginning a new layered residency project called Compound Layers. One of these layers is our compound residency, launching this Spring. Our compound residency is a unique s/low residency-- an on-site seasonal experimental partnership in co-curatorial practice. Led by an energy of generative distraction, curiosity, and play, Alberto and Alex will reimagine our X-Gallery exterior, transform the interior into a chapel of rest and restoration, and turn our side yard into a play-focused obstacle course for everyday performance.

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                                  Alex and Alberto I.

                                  Alex and Alberto is?

                                  Alex and Alberto am.

                                  Alex and Alberto our.

                                  Alex and Alberto are?

                                  Alex and Alberto care.

                                  Alex and Alberto who?

                                  Alex and Alberto will fill.

                                  Alex and Alberto when?

                                  Alex and Alberto will do.

                                  Alex and Alberto will kill.

                                  Alex and Alberto where?

                                  Alex and Alberto will play.

                                  Alex and Alberto will fight.

                                  Alex and Alberto will build.

                                  Alex and Alberto have done.

                                  Alex and Alberto launch pad.

                                  Alex and Alberto will arrive at?

Alberto Aguilar is a Chicago-based artist who comments on and plays with themes of uncertainty, freedom, chance, and error. He taught at Harold Washington College from 2006-2018 where he coordinated the Pedestrian Project, an initiative dedicated to making contemporary art practice more available to his students. In 2016, Alberto Aguilar was resident artist at the Art Institute of Chicago where he held several rogue events, exhibitions, and performances. His work has been exhibited and presented at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Contemporary Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center as well as in alternative artist-led spaces like Southside Hub of Production, The Franklin, and Compound Yellow. 

Alex Bradley Cohen lives and works in Chicago, IL. He was recently included in the group show State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), where he explored interpersonal and spatial relationships. He has shown in other group exhibitions at The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Art Institute of Chicago, Elmhurst Art Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, and The Craft and Folk Art Museum. Cohen has held solo and two-person exhibitions at The Luggage Store, Mana Contemporary, and Carrie Secrist among others. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Ox-Bow School of Art.

Aguilar and Cohen have shown and collaborated with each other in “Rest in Place”, an exhibition hosted by Comfort Station in Chicago IL, where they transformed the gallery into a chapel for free play, meditation and closeness.