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.