POLYGLOT II will include works from the Gallery’s flat files and private collections. The show which will be installed “salon-style” – densely hung to highlight connections or contrasts between works, artists, styles and techniques.

ARTISTS LIST

Nancy L. Abrams, Leonard Baskin, Keith Bringe, Lynne Brown, Roger Brown, Herbert Brün, David Burliuk, Letterio Calapai, Chikanobu Yoshu, Kris Cloud, Oronzo Gasparo, Teresa Getty, Sharon Goodman, Ann Marie Greenberg, John Himmelfarb, Hiroshige II Utagawa, Oleg Kasianchuk, Les Klug, Thomas Leahy, Vivian Maier, Ray L. Martin, John F. Miller, Otto Neumann, Tom Palazzolo, Gregory Scott, Leo Segedin, Tom Shirley, Alan Sue, John T. Upchurch, Megan Williamson…more.

 Pictured: Oronzo Gasparo, "The Village Vanguard" 1935. Gouache and ink on board. An important surrealistic image of New York's Bohemian community including portraits of Max Gordon and Joe Gould, among others.

EVENT IS FREE BUT RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671

Join Rare Nest for a reception and highly visual presentation celebrating the publication of The Art and History of the Toothpick.

The best collectors develop focused knowledge over time, nurture their passion and build connoisseurship around a specific area. They hunt for fine examples, from dusty attics to commercial marketplaces - a process that is thrilling and sometimes excruciating. If they are diligent, they build groups that illuminate the corners of human history through material culture.  In some very rare cases, great collections describe epochs of human creativity and culture.  Dr. Steven Potashnick is a great example of this rare breed and his Collection illuminates human history as a whole through something small and seemingly insignificant.

Publisher’s statement: “This 340 page hardcover book fills a long ignored void as it references over 1,500 toothpicks and compendiums that includes toothpicks dating from classical antiquity to the late Victorian Era. It is probably the largest collection of toothpicks that presently exists. The book shows over 2,800 high quality images demonstrating the vast diversity in style, complexity, and creativity of toothpicks as an art form for such a historically utilitarian instrument. This book is a conversation starter. You will be surprised, entertained and educated by its contents. It is a  must have addition to a home coffee table, an office reception area and a personal antiques and collectables reference library.

THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671

Tom Palazzolo is widely known as one of Chicago’s most important experimental filmmakers. In this first-ever comprehensive retrospective, Tom’s film work is secondary to his output as a master printmaker, painter, photographer and maker of assembled sculptures.

Palazzolo landed in Chicago in 1960, transferring from the Ringling School of Art to attend the School of the Art Institute. He quickly became known for his vernacular documents including photography, films, and paintings. He was an important part of the underground film scene in Chicago during the 1960s-70s that set itself apart from Hollywood and New York’s experimental genres. He received a bachelor’s degree and Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of the Art Institute in 1966. Although his work is set apart, he often exhibited alongside the Chicago groups known as the Hairy Who and the Imagists. In the mid-1960s, Palazzolo and a group of friends formed the Floating Cinematheque, a secret film society that met in apartments around Chicago. Many of their films faced the chagrin of a Chicago Police Censor Board.

Join us as we explore Palazzolo’s full career, accompanied by additional lectures and events.

Rare Nest is delighted to present a new novel by Gallery friend Robert Archambeau. We’ve read the galleys of Alice B. Toklas is Missing and can report that this is a fascinating, intense and deep dive into the art world of 1920’s Paris - with connections to Chicago’s North Shore. Please join us as we celebrate with the author. Advance copies will be available or preorder from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

ALICE B. TOKLAS IS MISSING is a novel of comic suspense set among the artists, writers and musicians of Jazz Age Paris.

When aspiring painter Ida Caine’s wanna-be writer husband Teddy drags her to Gertrude Stein’s famous artistic salon in Paris, she finds herself exiled to a corner with the wives of swaggering male geniuses. Will this be her fate? Before Ida can summon the courage to prove herself as an artist, she stumbles onto a plot to kidnap Gertrude Stein’s romantic partner, Alice B. Toklas.

Soon after Alice disappears, Teddy vanishes as well, and Ida is drawn into a world of subterfuge, jealous artists, and outsized literary egos. Surrealism, a young T.S. Eliot, and a journey through the eerie catacombs of Paris lead Ida to the discovery of an avant-garde plot to destroy the Louvre and all the art within it.

 Aided by a cast of sharply-drawn historical figures, Ida must foil the plot, and discover whether Teddy really is the man she thought he was. The action comes to a head at the premiere of Ballet Mécanique, a concert of modern music where rival factions of artists and writers battle in the aisles.

 Alice B. Toklas is Missing combines the American-in-Paris Jazz Age milieu of Midnight in Paris with the satiric bite of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and takes us on one woman’s voyage to discover art, love, and her own hidden courage and talent.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert Archambeau is the author of two books each of poetry, literary essays, and academic scholarship. He has worked as a professional art critic, and his work has appeared in Hudson Review, Poetry, Boston Review, and many other venues, and he has received awards and grants from the Swedish Academy, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Academy of American Poets. He chairs the English department at Lake Forest College, keeps adding to his burgeoning art collection, and will soon complete a sequel to Alice B. Toklas is Missing set in the London of Virginia Woolf and her peers, The Bloomsbury Forgery.

Saturday, November 4th 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Making Space Mark Ballogg

Above: Sculptor Richard Hunt’s Studio. “Making Space represents 115 Chicago artists, 92 photos, and 82 quotes.

Making Space was a five-year project, interrupted by Covid, photographing 166 artist studios in Chicago, resulting in around 5000 images.”

A luxurious, large-scale volume (13 x 9 inches) with impeccable images that evoke the creative process in all its forms and attributes.

The book will be available for sale as well as limited edition prints.

FREE EVENT BUT RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671

Join us for a celebration of Marcia Daehn Palazzolo’s new photo book “First Grade”.

A time capsule from six decades ago and a loving testament to a teacher’s memories, First Grade is structured as a picture book – with sensitive black and white photographs of schoolkids in 1963 in a Chicago Public School, punctuated by their masterful artworks and with thoughtful observations and remembrances - from class projects to creaky windows and dedicated colleagues. 

Rare Nest will present a selection of Marcia’s vintage photographic prints at this event and books will be available for purchase.

FREE EVENT - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

Please join Rare Nest as we celebrate the return of poet and essayist Ruth Danon and her new book, Turn Up the Heat

With Natania Rosenfeld

Saturday, June 24th 3:30 Reception, 4:00 Readings / Q & A

Reservations required and space is limited. Email keith@rarenestgallery.com or call 708-616-8671

Ruth Danon is the author of four books of poetry -- the forthcoming Turn Up The Heat (Nirala, 2023), Word Has It (Nirala, 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2016), and Triangulation From A Known Point (North Star Line, 1990). Her book of literary criticism, Work In The English Novel, was reissued by Routledge in 2020.  

Her work has been published widely in publications such as  2Horatio, The Paris Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Barrow Street, Versal, and Fence. She has been interviewed in journals including The Kenyon Review, Rain Taxi, and Pank. Her work was selected as a finalist in Tupelo Quarterly’s Four Quartets project. Robert Creeley selected one of her poems for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2002. 

Ruth lives in Beacon, NY and teaches privately, working with students in Beacon and New York City. For 23 years she taught creative and expository writing in the program she designed and directed for adult undergraduates at NYU's School of Professional Studies. She founded Live Writing: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry. Ruth was curator of the Spring Street Reading Series for Atlas Studios in Newburgh, NY.  She is presently organizing the first Beacon Lit Fest.

Review: “Turn Up the Heat is a beautiful book, at turns tender, wry, and heartbreaking. Whether she’s writing about growing older, or the challenges of domesticity, or the fickleness of the English language, Ruth Danon has created a hymn to our complex present and our anxious, unknowable future. These poems altered me as I was reading them, and they are going to continue to stay with me for a very long time.   — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, author of American Estrangement

Natania Rosenfeld is a writer, independent scholar and Professor Emerita of English (Knox College). Her second poetry collection: The Blue Bed was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2021.  Rosenfeld’s first book of poetry, Wild Domestic was published in 2015 (Sheep Meadow Press). Rosenfeld published a critical book, Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf (Princeton, 2000), and a chapbook of essays, She and I (Essay Press, May 2018). Her essays, poems and fiction are forthcoming or have appeared in journals Yale Review, Raritan and Prairie Schooner among others, and four essays have been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays collections. In 2018 Rosenfeld was named one of 30 “Writers to Watch” by the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago.

Reservations are required. keith@rarenestgallery.com

PolyGlot is an invitational group show that will also include archival works from the Gallery’s flat files, and other, private collections.  Over forty artists and three centuries of art will be represented in the show which will be installed “salon-style” – densely hung to highlight connections or contrasts between works, styles, periods, or artists.

Rare Nest will also produce a digital catalog of this show with images and brief biographical essays. Additional events are being planned for the duration of the exhibition including a reading by poets associated with the Lover’s Eye Press, a lecture / symposium on the Ford Gresham Collection of American Theater History 1840 – 1970 and much more.

ARTISTS LIST

Nancy L. Abrams, Jay Weaver Boersma, Brett Brady, Keith Bringe, Lynne Brown, Melanie Brown, Herbert Brun, Kris Cloud, Barbara Crane, Teresa Getty, Sharon Goodman, Pawel Grajnert, Ann Marie Greenberg, David Hauptschein, John Himmelfarb, Hiroshige II Utagawa, Kathe Kollwitz, Thomas Leahy, Vivian Maier, Ray L. Martin, John F. Miller, William Morillo, Otto Neumann, Tom Palazzolo, Seymour Rosofsky,, Gregory Scott, Leo Segedin, Tom Shirley, Alan Sue, John T. Upchurch, H. C. Westermann, Megan Williamson…And more…

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. VACCINATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL. MASKS ARE OPTIONAL.

RARE NEST PRESENTS TWO DISTINCTIVE COLLECTIONS OF INTROSPECTIVE & EXTROVERTED SELF-PORTRAITS. Rare Nest Gallery presents a two-person exhibition of self-portraits by Leo Segedin and David Hauptschein.

Both artists have engaged in deep explorations of self-representation that combine introspection and extraversion.  Both artists face challenges in age, vision, ableness, and a fear of invisibility.  What can we learn from their perspectives?  Hauptschein (72) and Segedin (95) overcome substantial challenges with their vision.  Segedin was diagnosed with dry macular degeneration over a decade ago. Hauptschein, 72, grew up with undiagnosed ADHD and developed a neuro-degenerative disease effecting vision processing. Courageous artists accommodating age with disability, adaptation and enduring, triumphant impulses to create – and to be seen are the subjects of this exhibition.

 David Hauptschein

David Hauptschein (1951, Philadelphia) is a Chicago-based artist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has published three volumes of his pictures: The Unreality Show (2021), Altered Ego: Self Portraits (2020), and The Mask Behind the Mask (2017). He has also published two collections of his plays, An Alchemy of Flesh and Other Plays (2021) and When the Walls Have Ears and Other Plays (2020). Most recently, in 2022, Hauptschein wrote the screenplay for Country of Hotels, a feature length film directed by Julio Maria Martino.

Leo Segedin

Leopold Segedin (Chicago, 1927) received his BFA (1948) and MFA (1950) from the University of Illinois. He has taught at the University of Illinois, U.S. Army Engineers, and at Northeastern Illinois University (1955-87). He is Art Professor Emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University. He retired from teaching in 1987. Mr. Segedin has been an exhibiting artist since 1947, his works having been shown at museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Milwaukee Art Institute. He has had a number of solo shows and has won awards at several museums including the Art Institute.

Please join us for a rare opportunity - a visit to an important Chicago artist’s studio. John Miller worked out of this west loop studio, near Jackson Blvd and Morgan Street for more than twenty years. View Miller’s archive of works in a variety of mediums. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited. Reservations Required: keith@rarenestgallery.com Exact address provided with reservation.
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John F. Miller: In Memoriam Opening Reception

July 23, 2022 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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Jay Boersma Koehnline Museum Walk and Talk

March 19, 2022 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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POSTPONED: Jay Boersma: "In Retrospect...2"

May 7, 2020 at 5:00pm — 8:00pm

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POSTPONED: JAPAN COMES TO CHICAGO: THE 1893 EXHIBITION with Art Institute Curator Dr. Janice Katz

April 28, 2020 at 10:30am — 12:30pm

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POSTPONED: OLIVIER BODART - RISK AREAS

April 4, 2020 at 5:00pm — 8:00pm

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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT: INHERITED COLLECTIONS: BLESSING OR CURSE?

March 8, 2020 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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Meet Jaap Hoogstraten, Director of Exhibitions, The Field Museum

February 8, 2020 at 3:00pm — 5:00pm

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JOHN MILLER: RETROSPECTIVE OPENING RECEPTION

January 18, 2020 at 6:00pm — 9:00pm

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Opening: Like This, But Different: Sculpture by John T. Upchurch at A & C Architects

January 16, 2020 at 6:00pm — 9:00pm

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Closing Reception OBJECT TRACES: Ann Marie Greenberg / Teresa Getty

January 10, 2020 at 5:00pm — 7:00pm

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Opening Reception for OBJECT TRACES: GETTY GREENBERG

November 9, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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CHAMPAGNE Barbeque - Nancy Abrams / Smith for West Virginia

October 19, 2019 at 6:00pm — 8:00pm

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World Premier of STIMMEN by Hollerweger & Scherzer

October 12, 2019 at 7:00pm — 9:00pm

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Welcome Cleveland's Gregory Scott

September 21, 2019 at 5:00pm — 7:00pm

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OPENING RECEPTION: Aut Si Quid - 7 Gallery Artists

September 14, 2019 at 6:00pm — 9:00pm

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Reception / Lecture: Epidemiology and Ecology of the Great Lakes with Dr. Richard Condit

August 7, 2019 at 7:00pm — 9:00pm

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Artist's Talk with Alan Sue

July 20, 2019 at 6:00pm — 8:00pm

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OPENING RECEPTION: ALAN SUE: WATER WIND SAND ICE 

June 29, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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EXHIBITION CLOSING RECEPTION: ASSEMBLY HALL - FEDERLE / UPCHURCH

June 22, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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LEO SEGEDIN AT U of ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN - URBANA

June 15, 2019 at 5:30pm — 7:30pm

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ARTIST'S TALK: Upchurch & Federle: ASSEMBLY HALL

June 7, 2019 at 6:00pm — 8:00pm

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WORDS, ASSEMBLED: Poetry with Ruth Danon / Natania Rosenfeld

June 1, 2019 at 7:00pm — 9:00pm

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OPENING RECEPTION FOR ASSEMBLY HALL: Rebekka Federle • John T. Upchurch

May 18, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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EXHIBITION CLOSING RECEPTION: THE ILLUSTRATED LOVER’S DISCOURSE

May 11, 2019 at 6:00pm — 9:00pm

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ARTIST'S TALK: BRINGE ON BARTHES

April 17, 2019 at 6:00pm — 8:00pm

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AN ILLUSTRATED LOVER'S DISCOURSE: MULTI-CHANNEL SOUND INSTALLATION BY ED HERRMANN

April 13, 2019 at 7:30pm — 9:30pm

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EXHIBITION OPENING: THE ILLUSTRATED LOVER’S DISCOURSE

March 30, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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THE CITY AS MUSE: CHICAGO IN PAINTINGS, PRINTS & DRAWINGS with Dr. Wendy Greenhouse

March 2, 2019 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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URBAN STUDIES: ARTIST'S TALK WITH SAMAROV & BOERSMA

February 27, 2019 at 6:00pm — 8:00pm

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CITY FUTURE: Professor Breugmann with Commissioner Reifman: Reception and Conversation

February 23, 2019 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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Epidemiology of Chicago School Architecture with Dr. Richard Condit

January 26, 2019 at 2:00pm — 3:00pm

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URBAN STUDIES: Boersma / Samarov Opening Reception

January 19, 2019 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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Farewell to the Circus: Closing Reception for Williamson's Defying Gravity

January 12, 2019 at 4:00pm — 8:00pm

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The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the Big Top - Reception / Lecture

December 1, 2018 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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Reception with Artist Megan Williamson

November 10, 2018 at 1:00pm — 4:00pm

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Megan Williamson: Defying Gravity - Circus Paintings Opening Reception

November 3, 2018 at 5:00pm — 9:00pm

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Book Party for "Leopold Segedin: A Habit of Art" SOLD OUT

October 20, 2018 at 3:00pm — 6:00pm

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Herbert Brün Exhibition at Experimental Sound Studio: Opening Reception & Mini Concert

October 12, 2018 at 6:00pm — 9:00pm

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Reception and Readings from the book Dear Bob, Dear Betty: Love and Marriage During the Great Depression with Elizabeth Catherine Wright and Timothy K. Wright

September 22, 2018 at 2:00pm — 4:00pm

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Space is limited and reservations are required: keith@rarenestgallery.com

John F. Miller B. Princeton, Illinois 1923 - D. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2021

John Miller’s 70+ year career formed a graceful arc of thoughtful conceptualization, experimentation and a mastery of diverse mediums.

Please join Rare Nest at this opening reception of a survey exhibition.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUESTED. Via email: keith@rarenestgallery.com

Rare Nest Gallery has undertaken a catalog of Miller’s works. This exhibition will explore the artist’s enormous archive and will be accompanied by additional events including visits to the artist’s studio in the west loop.

Jay Boersma: Consistency and Variety of his Vision

Please join Rare Nest Gallery, for a special overview, with photographer Jay Boersma, of his current exhibition at the Koehnline Museum in Des Plaines. A limited number of free exhibition catalog’s are available.

Jay Boersma’s work has evolved over a long career. He has changed from black and white to color photography, from one format to another, and from film to digital, but his eye, concern for composition, and his interest in depicting the world remain constant. He says, “I remain fascinated by the built world and its endless variety of human-made structures, environments, and details and the unique ways in which these are transformed by age, use, and—in particular—the act of photographing them.” This retrospective exhibition will include work from his early years in Providence, his photos that were part of the Changing Chicago project, his haunting images of empty and abandoned spaces, and the sometimes colorful and always beautiful images of the streets from places he has traveled.

Exhibition through March 31, 2022

Koehnline Museum is a part of the Campus of Oakton College, 1600 E. Golf Road Des Plaines, IL 60016

Please join Rare Nest at State Street Gallery in celebrating a retrospective of Jay W. Boersma’s work.

Jay Boersma

1947 Chicago, IL.

Jay Weaver Boersma is a fine art and documentary photographer, mixed media artist, designer, and creative director, and was Senior Creative Director at Playboy.com from 1996 to 2011.

He was born in Chicago, graduated in the class of 1965 from Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (then the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle). He worked as a Quality Control Technician at the Johnson and Johnson Midwest Surgical Dressing plant in Bedford Park, IL and later as a studio assistant at Shigeta-Wright Photography Studio in Chicago. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in photography and additional work in ceramics and printmaking. He received a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976, after study with such noted photographers as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

Between 1979 and 1996, he taught photography and art at Bradley University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Governors State University. He exhibited his work widely during that time and has work in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and several private collections.

After two decades of teaching, Boersma became increasingly involved with the Internet and the World Wide Web, which led to his changing careers in 1996 and becoming the Creative Director for Playboy Magazine's web presence, playboy.com.

This program is held in conjunction with the non-profit International Women Associates’ membership. Members of IWA will have preference in reservations for this event. Non-members may contact Rare Nest Gallery to be placed on a waiting list for this event - keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671

A B O U T T H E P R O G R A M

Art Institute curator Dr. Janice Katz will provide an historic and visual overview of Japan’s presence at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Phoenix Hall was Japan’s main national pavilion at the fair. Modeled on an 11th- century temple outside Kyoto, it stood out against the beaux-arts buildings that made up much of the rest of the fair, the so- called “White City.” After the fair, the Japanese government gave the Phoenix Hall to the city of Chicago. The story doesn’t end there - as the building and its contents continue to reveal exciting discoveries.

A B O U T J A N I C E K A T Z

Janice Katz is the Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been with the museum for over 17 years. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. Her research focuses on paintings from the Edo period (1615-1868) and the history of art collecting in Japan. She was the primary author of the catalogue Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2003), and the organizer of the exhibition Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (2009). Her most recent exhibition at the Art Institute, Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection, and its accompanying catalogue focused on ukiyo-e paintings of the 17th through 20th centuries.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

This is a free event but space is limited and reservations are required: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671 

Please join Rare Nest as we address a growing challenge. How can heirs and executors manage artist's estates?  Imagine - learning you are responsible for the future of an artist's entire archive.  You've lost a beloved family member, friend or associate who was an artist.  You unlock their studio and find a lifetime of work - alongside documents, materials, books and more.  What you find can present enormous problems and few opportunities. Where to start?  Through a brief presentation by museum studies professor Dr. David Sokol, and a panel discussion with leading curators and the heirs to large artist's collections, we'll begin to develop tools and approaches to practical collection management and dispersal.

Panel Members

Keith Bringe, Director, Rare Nest Gallery  

Dr. David Sokol, Professor Emeritus, Art History and former director Museum Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

Douglas Stapleton, Associate Curator of Art, Illinois State Museum

Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art

Jane Wenger, artist and collection administrator 

Program Structure

David Sokol will reprise a greatly abbreviated paper he delivered for the Popular Culture Association a few years back - this is also the source for our title, "Inherited Collections: A Blessing or a Curse", followed by a 45 minute panel and information sharing session including a Q & A. 

2:00 – 2:30 Reception

2:30 – 3:00 Sokol Presentation

3:00 - 3:45 Panel / Q & A

This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition  JOHN MILLER: RETROSPECTIVE (through March 29th).

January 18th - March 29th, 2020

Born 1927, Princeton Illinois. John Miller’s career - seven decades long - formed a graceful arc of thoughtful conceptualization, experimentation and mastery of arcane media. Rare Nest’s exhibition will offer an exploration of the enormous Miller archive including early work through 2004, when the artist's symptoms of Alzheimer’s became pronounced. With curatorial contributions from Lynne Brown, among others.

The Miller Family and Rare Nest will partner in donating a percentage of all sales to the Alzheimer's Association. This exhibition will be accompanied by additional events and discussions around the disposition of artist's studios - a growing problem. A panel discussion, "Inherited Collections: Blessing or Curse" will be moderated by Dr. David Sokol, alongside leading curators and the heirs to large estates. Visit rarenestgallery.com/events for info.

Opening Reception Saturday, January 18th, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Reservations are required for all events:

keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671 / rarenestgallery.com

Like This, But Different, a show of sculpture by John Upchurch, runs January 16 - February 27th. 2020. Opening reception 1/16, 6-9 pm. The Gallery /A+C Architects 4840 Main St, Skokie Il

Please join us as we celebrate the work of two great non-objective artists.

The term "abstraction" describes a vast number of artistic practices and approaches. With "TRACES", Ann Marie Greenberg and Teresa Getty demonstrate diverse but masterful techniques. Join Rare Nest as we explore the stories behind their work.

Rare Nest Gallery is proud to present

Saturday, October 12th 2019

7 PM Reception, 7:30 Performance, 8 PM Discussion

This event is free but reservations are required

The electroacoustic composition Stimmen (German: “voices”) is a celebration of the human voice, of orality as a medium of communication that – precisely by stretching the securities of asserted meaning – reveals truth to those who keep listening in the absence of words. Berlin-based vocalist and performance artist Christine Scherzer has given this piece its voice. Florian Hollerweger, sound artist and Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago, has assembled the resulting recordings into the final composition.

 ABOUT FLORIAN HOLLERWEGER

As an artist and scholar of sound, Florian Hollerweger (b. 1980, Austria) develops artistic strategies for aestheticizing everyday aural experience in the context of electroacoustic music compositions, sound installations, public listening interventions, and computer music performances. He has presented his work across Europe, Great Britain, the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. Florian conducts research on 3D sound spatialization by means of binaural room impulse responses and Higher-Order Ambisonics. Before his current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago, Florian was a Lecturer in Music Technology at MIT (2013-17) and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2011-12) and worked for the automatic audio postproduction web service Auphonic (2012-13). He holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a Diplomingenieur (M.Sc.) from the Graz University of Technology, Austria.

 ABOUT CHRISTINE SCHERZER

Versatile Berlin-based performing artist Christine Scherzer (b. 1978) studied History of Art in Leipzig and graduated in Jazz Vocals from the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She has participated in numerous transdisciplinary projects combining music, dance and theater. Scherzer’s collaborations with Austrian and international musicians, artists and theatre groups has incorporated various music styles (jazz, pop, classical, contemporary) and led to appearances at several international festivals across Europe. Christine was a semi-finalist at the “Montreux Jazz Voice Competition” in 2010. Apart from her career in the performing arts, since 2006, she has been devoted to performing as a Red Noses Clown Doctor to cheer up children at hospitals, elderly people and refugees.

The project 'Stimmen' is partially supported by

a Faculty Development Grant from Columbia College Chicago