The Compound

We are excited to announce the exhibition: DISTRACTED SOLDIERS, as Chapter 1 and the foundation of Silver Baits, Silver Archives.

Distracted Soldiers is a group exhibition examines the strange intimacy between discipline and distraction, tracing the subtle ways discipline hides inside movement, habits, and act of attention.

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Featuring works by Kyoungho Isaac Kim , Coco Klockner .flac, Alyssa Matthews , Talia Rudofsky , Chase Satterwhite , Vavara Tokareva , Aineki Traverso , Kay Yoon , Monsieur Zohore

June 20 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 20, 5–8 PM
w. performance by Dr. Bonnie Lander

Gallery Hours: Fri&Sat 12-4pm; Mon&Wed by appointment (contact info on website)

The Compound is pleased to present Silver Baits, Silver Archives, a culminating multi-chapter series unfolding across exhibitions, performances, screenings, and site-responsive interventions from June 20 – July 25.

Through installations, moving images, sound, performance, and spatial choreography, this project explores surveillance, collective memory, mistranslation, and the unstable relationship between witnessing and control. Across three interconnected chapters, participating artists collectively examine how self-surveillance and archives under the table deform, echo, conceal, and rehearse power.

Chapter 1: Distracted Soldiers
Group Exhibition
June 20 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 5–8 PM

Chapter 2: Archives are Under the Table
Multi-site Performance & Screening Event
Sunday, June 28, ticket link coming soon!

Chapter 3: Stuttering is Echoing
Exhibition Pt. 2 / Site-Responsive Intervention
July 10 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 5–8 PM

Artists announcing soon…
Stay tuned for more details!

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Installation Shots of Obscura curated by Kristen Landsman
featuring Marnie Ellen Hertzler , Michael Northrup , and

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On view through June 7
gallery hours: Mon&Wed by appointment (see contact info on website); Fri&Sat 12-4PM
Closing Reception June 7 evening during Outside In!

Obscura on view through June 7th
Thank you to everyone who came to witness the whimsy of image making!
curated by amazing Kristen Landsman
featuring

Monday & Wednesday on view by appointment only
Friday & Saturday 12-4PM
Contact info on website:)

The Compound is thrilled to announce our first tenant curated exhibition “Obscura” by our whimsical Kristen Landsman ! Obscura is a three-person exhibition featuring Marnie Ellen Hertzler , Kristen Landsman, and Michael Northrup . Across distinct practices, the artists engage with images and objects that feel improperly encountered; seen out of place, removed from their intended or assumed context.

Opening Reception: Friday May 8th, 5-8PM
Duration: May 8 - June 6th, 2026
Main Space, 2239 Kirk Ave

This exhibition frames viewership within a push and pull between permission and intrusion, where looking becomes both the premise and the problem, edging toward voyeurism.

Please come to join us at the opening night on the 8th, have some viewing play.🐞

The Compound is thrilled to announce our first tenant curated exhibition “Obscura” by our whimsical Kristen Landsman ! Obscura is a three-person exhibition featuring Marnie Ellen Hertzler Kristen Landsman, and Michael Northrup . Across distinct practices, the artists engage with images and objects that feel improperly encountered; seen out of place, removed from their intended or assumed context.

Opening Reception: Friday May 8th, 5-8PM
Duration: May 8 - June 6th, 2026
Main Space, 2239 Kirk Ave

This exhibition frames viewership within a push and pull between permission and intrusion, where looking becomes both the premise and the problem, edging toward voyeurism.

Please come to join us at the opening night on the 8th, have some viewing play.

For the month of March, Artist Resident Lamar Robillard worked within his archive —
scanning, sorting, and pulling from over a decade of negatives in preparation for his forthcoming book, My First Song.

What’s presented here is a loose activation set to accompany the release titled Negative Space, the exhibition unfolded as an environment where contact sheets and negatives spread across the walls like fragments of memory in motion.

Alongside this, his archival film Ghetto Gospel & The Ambiguity of Truth
played as a visual poem featuring Super 8 footage of New York interwoven with photographic remnants, blurring the line between document and dream.

Images appeared on raw wooden panels —
an ode to material honesty, where the photograph resists polish and remains exposed.

Throughout the space, Black knights stood as sentinels —figures of resistance,holding the room, watching over what remains and what is still becoming.

For the month of March, Artist-in-Residence Lamar Robillard worked within his archive —
scanning, sorting, and pulling from over a decade of negatives in preparation for his forthcoming book, My First Song.

What’s presented here is a loose activation set to accompany the release titled Negative Space, the exhibition unfolded as an environment where contact sheets and negatives spread across the walls like fragments of memory in motion.

Alongside this, his archival film Ghetto Gospel & The Ambiguity of Truth
played as a visual poem featuring Super 8 footage of New York interwoven with photographic remnants, blurring the line between document and dream.

Images appeared on raw wooden panels —
an ode to material honesty, where the photograph resists polish and remains exposed.

Throughout the space, Black knights stood as sentinels —figures of resistance,holding the room, watching over what remains and what is still becoming. Enjoy a bit of the process.

“Negative Space” by Artist Resident Lamar Robillard
Robillard presents over a decade of photographic practice through an unconventional archival approach; this seemingly gentle display proves provocative, as the negative relationship between film and contact sheets, combined with the physical labor of the viewer shifting perspectives, raises interrogations about the invisibility of Black identity.
The knight watches on, impassive.