“For Iris and Other Flowers,” at Compound Yellow, tends to the memory of Leslie Baum’s first art teacher: her mother. | ✍️ Maxwell Rabb
Credit:Is the temporary worthwhile? Gardeners come face to face with this dilemma every day, caring for their plants with exceptional diligence. But the seasons change, and they must confront an inevitable winter. Despite this grief, they return to their plots, routinely tending to the temporary. This is the dilemma that Chicago artist Leslie Baum contemplates in her exhibition “For Iris and Other Flowers,” a meditation on memory and her mother, Iris.
“For Iris and Other Flowers” features several watercolor paintings of garden flowers, a collection of delicately arranged ceramics, and a massive painting installation, conceived in three parts, that ornaments the far wall of Compound Yellow’s gallery space. Baum’s showcase feels temporary, unfixed to the room. Her smaller paintings that decorate the outdoor walls of the gallery will wash away, and eventually, the gallery will invite new art to replace hers.
To frame her exhibition, Baum references author Jordan Kisner’s musings on the ephemeral nature of flowers—an anticipated yet poignant loss. Her artmaking practice is deliberately untethered, embodying Kisner’s meditations. Baum’s art is inspired by a persisting memory of her mother’s artmaking. For instance, her ceramics are imprinted with Iris’s signature using a clay stamp made in the 1970s.
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