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

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…

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.