Grab a cocktail and bid high!
Dear Intuit friends, When in-person museum visits were impossible for much of last year, I was enthusiastic to extend a loan of my collection at Intuit. The extension helped to accommodate hundreds of people who couldn’t see the exhibition Outsider Art: The Collection of Victor F. Keen during the months when Intuit was closed due to COVID. As a result, museum guests expressed feeling connection, acceptance and enjoyment transcending those at many other art museums.
Silen Auction Item: Robert Bellio. Candelabra, n.d. Repurposed auto-parts, magnifying glass and machine parts. Gift of Paula and Gordon Addington.
I’m honored to chair the 2022 Visionary Ball, and to toast with you, Intuit friends, my longtime art mentor and loyal friend Frank Maresca, this year’s Visionary Awardee.
Silent Auction Item: Mr. Imagination. Untitled (pendant II), n.d. Paint on clay, 14 ¼ x 2 in. (including rope of the necklace), pendant dims: 1 x 2 x 1 in. Donated by an anonymous donor
By registering to tonight’s event, you’ve already demonstrated your belief in the power of Intuit’s work to change lives. Please take your commitment to Intuit and Frank a step further by making an outright donation or bidding on the auction. Through your support, thousands of Chicago Public School students, teachers around the country and audiences around the world benefit from profound outsider and self-taught art experiences. With sincere thanks,
Victor F. Keen
Above: Frank Maresca, Victor Keen and Alejandra Russi
Important Reminders 1.
The 30-minute Visionary Ball Program begins at 7 p.m. central In-person guests, at this time please congregate at Salvage One’s church pew seating to watch the program. Thank you for keeping voices down and silencing phones to ensure everyone can hear the remarks. Guests watching the livestream, please arrive to Zoom 10 minutes before 7 p.m. central to test your speakers and get your Party-in-Place package treats ready to enjoy. Zoom link will be emailed to you on the afternoon of Visionary Ball, June 2.
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Silent Auction closes at 8 p.m. In-person guests are encouraged to take home your winnings tonight. If you can’t take home items tonight or are bidding remotely, Intuit staff will be in touch with you during the week following the event to coordinate pick-up or shipping. If you live outside Chicago, please double check the silent auction items’ description for disclaimers about any items that we’re unable to ship.
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In-person event ends at 8:30 p.m. Be sure you’ve picked up your auction items by 8:30 p.m.
+ All artworks shown are available to bid on at auction!
Thanks for joining us for an evening to remember!
Silent Auction Item: Holger “Kinki Texas” Meier. Untitled, n.d. Gift of Dale Taylor and Angela Lustig
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Bid often and high! For additional support, talk to an Intuit staff member or call Intuit at 312.624.9487.
Thank you, Sponsors! Platinum Sponsor Janet and Craig Duchossois Ashley and Mike Joyce Victor F. Keen and Jeanne Ruddy Masterworks Masterworks is the first platform for buying and selling shares of iconic artworks. Gold Sponsors Susan Baerwald/Marcy Carsey–Just Folk Monty Blanchard and Leslie Tcheyan Bob Roth and Cleo Wilson Dale Taylor and Angela Lustig Silver Sponsors Jeremiah Duncan Jean and Lewis Greenblatt Deb Kerr and Steve Thompson Material Culture Jan Petry JoAnn Seagren and Scott Lang
About the Special Guests: Frank Maresca, 2022 Visionary Awardee Frank is a member of Intuit’s Strategic Advisory Council and an American art dealer and co-founder of Ricco/ Maresca Gallery in New York City. A long-term advocate of self-taught, outsider and folk art, he has showcased the work of artists creating on the margins of the art historical mainstream for over 35 years. Through many gallery exhibits, museum collaborations, publications, philanthropic work and the management of key artist estates, Maresca has championed the crossover of vernacular art into the Contemporary and Modern arenas.
Victor F. Keen, Visionary Ball Chair Victor F. Keen is a longtime friend of 2022 Visionary Awardee Frank Maresca and an owner of a nationally recognized collection of outsider art. He is currently involved in various cultural and entrepreneurial activities, having retired as a partner in the international law firm Duane Morris, LLP. He began collecting in the mid-’70s, growing his collection to span the breadth of the outsider art genre (including, Bill Traylor, William Hawkins, James Castle, George Widener, Martín Ramírez and Sam Doyle) and include vintage toys, banks, radios and toasters. Since 2012, his collection has been housed at The Keen Collection of Outsider Art at Bethany Mission Gallery in Philadelphia. It was his friendship with Frank that first sparked Keen’s interest in outsider art more than 40 years ago.
Tracy Holmes, Board President Tracy serves as the president of Studio H, an interior design company where she has been working since 1997. Previously Tracy was the first vice president of the Home Builders Association of Illinois and has served as education committee chair of the Midwest Builders Show of the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago. Tracy has served on the Board of Directors at Intuit since 2015; she has led as President of the Board since 2020.
Debra Kerr, President & CEO Deb came to Intuit in 2014 from a 17-year career at the John G. Shedd Aquarium, where her roles included executive vice president from 1999–2010. She serves as an instructor in the Museum Studies Certificate Program in Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies, where she was awarded for her excellence in teaching in 2013. Deb is a frequent guest speaker on issues related to museum relevance, teen empowerment and Chicago’s role in advancing outsider art.
Gary Metzner, Call-to-Donate Auctioneer Gary is a Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s and their Head of Office for the Midwest. He joined Sotheby’s in 1997 after working as the Director of Fine Art for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers since 1993. Previously, he was Director of Hokin Kaufman Gallery in Chicago. He is a member of the Arts Club of Chicago and sat on the advisory panel for the Legacy of Absence Gallery at the new Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
June 17, 2022 January 8, 2023
Roman Villareal : South Chicago Legacies
June 17 July 10
Upcoming Exhibitions
Teacher Fellowship Program Student Exhibition
Intuit opens a retrospective exhibition of the work of Roman Villarreal, a self-taught artist from South Chicago. Throughout his artistic career, Villarreal has demonstrated mastery of materials: alabaster, marble, limestone and serpentine; his oeuvre extends beyond sculpture to include painting and assemblage. The exhibition spans decades of his artistic practice, featuring works from the 1980s to the present day. Villarreal captures the spirit of South Chicago in his art, reflecting the people, places and life experiences of those in his community. Subject matters range from urban tragedy and commemoration to family life and celebration to exploration of his Mexican heritage. In addition to the retrospective at Intuit, sculptures by Villarreal can be found throughout Chicago, highlighting the city’s history.
Two teachers in different disciplines from each of 10-12 Chicago Public Schools attend professional development sessions at Intuit and create interdisciplinary curricula meeting common core standards. Teachers visit sites significant to outsider art, meet artists creating in the genre and receive critical feedback on their written lessons. The program culminates in a month-long student exhibition in spring 2022.
July 15, 2022 January 8, 2023
Silent Auction Artwork on previous page: Alpha Andrews. Untitled (abstract with girl and flowers), n.d. Marker and ink on paper, 13 ½ x 17 in. Gift of Daniel Wojcik.
Tarik Echols: Open This exhibition surveys the work of Illinois artist Tarik Echols, featuring his colorful, mixed-media art works that often incorporate vivid colors, expressive marks and the repetitive use of words. Echols was active in Chicago’s Little City Arts Program
2022 Member-Exclusive Collection Tour Series Intuit offers its members virtual collection tours on Zoom, in which a collector of outsider and self-taught art leads a tour of their home and shares stories about their collecting journey. Each exceptional tour concludes with a Q&A with the collector. Intuit members automatically receive the Zoom link to participate, no registration required. Upcoming tours occur on Thursdays at 6–7 p.m. central: Thursday, June 9 - David Walega Thursday, August 4 - Scott Lang and JoAnn Seagren Thursday, October 6 - Bill Swislow and Janet Franz Sunday, December 4 - Rob and Orren If you’re not already an Intuit member, purchase or renew your membership today at www.art.org/membership to participate in these not-to-be-missed tours!
Featured Auction Items
Kinki Texas’ Untitled
Holger “Kinki Texas” Meier. Untitled, n.d. Gift of Dale Taylor and Angela Lustig
Kinki Texas creates three-dimensional animation, music videos and video installation, but his main focus has always been drawing and painting. Though he has a theme and subject matter in mind when he begins a piece, Texas works intuitively, making highly spontaneous images in the process. Texas borrows from comics, graffiti, the art canon and punk aesthetics to build “Kinki Texas Space,” a macabre universe filled with bizarre figures engaged in grim, sometimes violent, behavior, as seen in their brandishing weapons towards the viewer. Kinki Texas was born in Bremen, Germany, and currently works and lives in Berlin.
Barbara Simon’s Untitled (Purple)
Barbara Simon. Untitled, 1988. Colored pencil and graphite on paper 14 x 17 in. Gift of Frank Maresca Work is framed.
Barbara Simon’s Untitled (Red)
Barbara Simon. Untitled, 1988. Colored pencil and graphite on paper 14 x 17 in. Gift of Frank Maresca Work is framed.
Gerald Deprie’s Flowers
Gerald Deprie. Flowers, 1992. Colored pencil on paper, 36 x 24 in. Gift of William Swislow and Janet Franz Work is framed.
Working quickly and with great spontaneity, Gerald “Creative” DePrie created striking drawings in colored pencil, graphite and ink. His themes are diverse, ranging from flowers, ancient architectural wonders, marvels of modern engineering and figurative works. Fascinated by the human form, DePrie would first draw his figures nude before going back and adding clothes. DePrie utilized a stock of reoccurring characters throughout his works, including, perhaps most evocatively, a memento mori-like figure of Death.
About Intuit Founded in 1991, Intuit is a premier museum of outsider and self-taught art, defined as work created by artists who faced marginalization, overcame personal odds to make their artwork, and who didn’t, or sometimes couldn’t, follow a traditional path of art making, often using materials at hand to realize their artistic vision.
Participants showed their artwork on Zoom at Intuit public program Art After Work with artist Marvin Tate on February 18, 2021.
The 2021-2022 Teacher Fellowship Program cohort learned from Intuit’s 2021 exhibition Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope: Selections from the Collection, on view May 29-October 31, 2021.
Each year, the museum’s exhibitions, outreach, events, publications, website and social media impact more than 72,000 people. Intuit’s vital programs include our exhibitions, the Teacher Fellowship Program and the IntuiTeens Summer Youth Internship. Intuit continues to engage outsider art audiences with our publication, The Outsider, and various programs aimed at youth and adults like Art After Work, which feature artists, scholars, authors, filmmakers, storytelling, poetry, music, dance and collaborations with service organizations.
Portrait Gift to 2022 Visionary Awardee Frank Maresca
Frank Maresca
About the artist of the Visionary Award portrait, David Lee Csicsko David Lee Csicsko is an internationally-recognized and celebrated designer and artist currently living and working in Chicago, Ill. During his 30-year career, David has engaged in a wide variety of projects; monumental projects have included work for hospitals, universities, elementary schools, churches and various private homes. David has graciously created portraits of several Visionary Awardees for Intuit over the years.
Leadership: Chair Victor F. Keen
Honorary Committee Susan Baerwald Elyse and Lawrence B. Benenson Edward Blanchard and Leslie Tcheyan Jason Todd Busch Shari Cavin and Randall Morris Janet and Craig Duchossois Janet Green Robert Greenberg and Corvova Lee Jean and Charles Gross Carl Hammer Flora and Adam Hanft Audrey Heckler Matthew Higgs Rebecca Hoffberger Thomas Isenberg John Jerit Ashley and Mike Joyce Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown Scott Lang Ashley and Curt Langley Carl Lobell Jan Petry Lyle Rexer Roger Ricco Douglas Robson Bob Roth Alejandra Russi Karen and Peter Sonnabend Melissa and Gerry Uram George Viener George Widener Cleo Wilson Victoria Wilson Jeffrey Wolf and Jeany Nisenholz-Wolf Dr. Jill S. Young and Beatrice E. Kossodo Vivian Society Kevin Cole Ralph Concepcion Susann Craig * Harriet Finkelstein
Marjorie Freed Carl Hammer Eugenie Johnson Ann Nathan
Bob Roth Judy Saslow Lisa Stone *Deceased
Strategic Advisory Council Scott Lang, Chair Susan Baerwald Michelle Boone John Jerit Victor Keen Ashley Smither Langley John Maizels Frank Maresca Douglas Robson Leslie Umberger
Host Committee Gabriella Bomben Cheri Eisenberg Shawn Grenald Tracy Holmes Deb Kerr Scott Lang Elizabeth Nelson Jan Petry
Silent Auction Item: Mr. Imagination. Untitled, n.d. Carved sandstone, 5 x 3 x 4 in.
Board of Directors Tracy Holmes, President Patrick Blackburn Rich Bowen Tim Bruce Robert Burnier Cheri Eisenberg Lewis Greenblatt Rob Grossett Scott Lang Rob Lentz Bonnie McGrath César Montenegro Elizabeth Nelson Jan Petry Tynnetta Qaiyim Benedicta Badia Nordenstahl Phyllis Rabineau Kevin Sampson Jerry Stefl Michael Sullivan Bill Swislow David Syrek David Walega Stacy Wells Cleo Wilson Zachary Wirsum Adam Wolford Michelle Woods Shawn Grenald, ex officio representing Intuit’s Young Professionals Board
President and CEO Debra Kerr Staff Alison Amick Julie Blake Will Deschler Claire Fassnacht Tina Horton Charlie Miller Siena Peterson Claire Renaud Christina Stavros Tate Courtney Thompson Joshua Willis Lindsey Wurz Volunteers/Interns Sukie Culver Alex Flojo Ruth Hutchinson Reid Rosati Justine Wendling
Silent Auction Artwork on previous page: Deatra Colbert. Untitled, n.d. Colored pencil and crayon on black board, 22 x 32 in. (unframed). Gift of Daniel Wojcik. Work is framed.
Videography: Noah Manalo Design: Megan Phillips Program Music: Alex Yoffe
Young Professionals Board Shawn Grenald, President Sarah Anderson Spencer Blaney Gabriella Bomben Dana Boutin Teddy Braziunas Wyatt Buescher Jane Castro Sofia Coulson Marilyn Creswell Ben Fisher Katherine Gorman Emma Kearney Catherine LaMendola Katherine Lelek Erin Madarieta Lail Marmor Allison Moore Jen Moss Khushi Suri Emily van der Harten Jessica Wain Annaleigh Wetzel Fabiola Yep Leah Zuberer Silent Auction Item: Mark Anthony Mulligan. Untitled (church), n.d. Felt tip on paper. Gift of Wally Bowling. Work is framed.
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Silent Auction Item: Stanley Szwarc. Untitled (vase), 2003. Stainless steel, 12 x 9 x 9 in. Gift of Janet Franz and Bill Swislow.
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Stanley Szwarc. Untitled (vase), 2003. Stainless steel, 12 x 9 x 9 in. Gift of Janet Franz and Bill Swislow
