Reservations Required!
Legendary Chicago artist Tom Palazzolo’s career – more than six decades long – includes photography, painting and most famously experimental filmmaking.
Join us for a career overview with film excerpts, images and a Q & A with the master himself. Reservations required.
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
Opening Reception: 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Reservations Required: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671
Meet Nancy Abrams
Nancy L Abrams, 1953 St. Louis, Mo.
Abrams worked as a photojournalist for small newspapers in the rural, Appalachian communities around Preston County, West Virginia for more than 16 years. Nancy's life and work embody the classic American outsider - a feminist, professional story-teller dropped into a closed society with narrowly defined gender roles. Abrams covered military exercises, politics and Big Coal, crime, accidents, and natural disasters. Abrams’ archive comprising 25,000 photographic negatives is an important and poignant archive of Allegheny culture in transition. Her work has been compared to Dorothea Lange, Lewis Wickes Hine and Walker Evans -who worked extensively in Preston County in 1935. In this, Abram's first-ever, major gallery exhibition, we celebrate the publication of her memoir, "The Climb from Salt Lick" by Vandalia Press (West Virginia University).
