Oct 20th 2018

Leo Segedin: Retrospective

@ Rare Nest Gallery

3433 N Kedvale Ave, Chicago, IL 60641

Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 3PM - 6PM

On view through Sunday, October 21st

Join us as we celebrate the publication of the first major book on Leo Segedin’s art featuring over 100 illustrations and 130 pages. With essays by Richard Cahan, Dr. David Sokol and the artist himself.

Leopold Segedin, 1927, Chicago

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Leo Segedin is Rare Nest’s “senior artist” and indeed, is a beloved senior artist in the whole Chicago region. Still painting every day at 90 years old, Leo is a prolific and visionary artist and storyteller. Many of his works from the last 20 years contain auto-biographical elements and self-portraits (“I’m a cheap model”) in dual poses juxtaposing youth and honest age. The dream-like settings of Leo’s work evoke vernacular Chicago architecture – streetscapes and train stations of Chicago’s west side from the 1930’s to the present. Leo’s serial works explore the complex emotional life behind childhood games, conflict around difference and ultimately the strength of the individual. Segedin has mastered meticulous techniques, reminiscent of Flemish masters, in order to evoke the life of an outsider. Leo achieves supreme poetry in his work…

Reservations Required: keith@rarenestgallery.com or 708-616-8671

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