Radical Empathy
Coming Soon to Compound

EJ Hill, Regalia (line drawing), 2020. Brass ball chain, brass furniture pin, brass tubing on draped velvet, 48.5 x 33 inches
Art in our political present can be read as a call to arms, gesturing to what the late curator Okwui Enwezor considered “a change agenda.” Compound proposes that a cultural space for the community is a place in which “to act,” educate, and illuminate artistic ideas and ideals particularly at such a critical cultural moment.

Glenn Kaino, Spontaneous Combustion, 2017, cotton flags, tarring solution, time
41 x 68 inches

Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (The Sun Rose and The World Became Radiant), 2019, digital chromogenic print on custom elm frame, 52 ⅜ x 62 3/16 inches

Mildred Howard, You Are Welcome Here, 2020, found glass bottle, wood, glue, 17.5 x 28.5 x 18 ⅞ inches
Some extend their work to the belief in art’s capacity to heal, to transform our mode of thinking, our base of knowledge and to bear the potential to transform the world through the lens of beauty or radicality. The work featured stems from a humanist desire that acceptance and understanding can lead to an empathetic approach to equality.

Rodney McMillian, Nebula; violet into green, 2017, latex, ink, acrylic on bedsheet, 92 x 89 inches