Left Unsaid: A Sound, Scent, Taste, and Sight Interchange
@ ALMA Art and Interiors
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, February 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
Left Unsaid:
A Sound, Scent, Taste, and Sight Interchange
Within and Without / / Time and Sound
“Play and improvisation are large aspects of my painting process. I am driven to act on my visual ideas, notions, and emotions as they arise in the moment, and those intuitive moments are supported by historical knowledge and a varied amount of preparation. This process seems parallel in interesting ways to the process of my favorite musicians, particularly the ones found in Chicago’s improvised music scene. I learned to act decisively as a painter from studying Chicago jazz improvisers as they engaged in dialogue with one another on stage, and as they worked within, without, and despite the constraints of time and sound. I learned to feel the shape of so much wonderful music, and this continues to inform my artwork today.
I am honored to witness the musical collaboration of Jake Wark and Bill Harris, two Chicago musicians who have inspired some of my own work, and who will improvise musically within the gallery space at Alma during the run of Collected Pauses.”
—Jeffrey Sanderson
Jake Wark is a saxophonist and composer who has been active in Chicago’s creative music community since 2014, when he relocated from upstate New York. He can be heard in numerous groups as a sideman and collaborator, including Javier Red’s Imagery Converter, whose first release, Ephemeral Certainties, was included in an NPR Jazz Critics’ Poll list of the best debuts of 2019. Jake has released two albums as a leader: 2020’s Scrawl, featuring Angel Bat Dawid, Jakob Heinemann, and Adam Shead, and 2017’s Tremor, with Drew Gress and Phil Haynes.
Bill Harris has been active in Chicago’s music communities since 2011, working at the intersection of free improvisation, jazz, noise, rock, and country. His music has been presented at Constellation, Elastic Arts, The Bop Stop, The Hungry Brain, The Hideout, Experimental Sound Studios, Spot Tavern, Beat Kitchen, Empty Bottle, and Comfort Station.
Bill has played or recorded with Jim Baker, Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler, Brian Sandstrom, Ed Wilkerson, Carol Genetti, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeb Bishop, Peter Maunu, Josh Berman, Brandon Lopez, Keefe Jackson, and Jason Roebke, among many other experimental and improvisatory musicians and artists.
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