Sep 14th 2026

Janine Mileaf and Ann Toebbe Lead Tour and Discussion of Mernet Larsen: Situational Awareness
Sep 14, 2026
6:00pm–7:00pm

On the occasion of Chicago Exhibition Week, The Arts Club hosts a tour in the current exhibition Mernet Larsen: Situational Awareness with Arts Club director and curator Janine Mileaf and artist Ann Toebbe. See the work of one artist through the understanding of another and learn about the innovative painting strategies explored by Larsen. Toebbe, who recently closed a solo exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, is celebrated for her intricate collages of resonant spaces. She will bring an eye to Larsen’s uncanny subjects and her mind-bending manner of portraying them.

Free and open to the public

Mernet Larsen (b. 1940, Houghton, Michigan) has exhibited extensively since the late 1970s and has been the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions, including Mernet Larsen: The Ordinary, Reoriented, Akron Art Museum, 2019, and Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017, Tampa Museum of Art, 2017. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, the X Museum, Beijing, China, among others. Larsen received her BFA from the University of Florida, and her MFA from Indiana University. She lives and works between Tampa, Florida and Jackson Heights, New York.

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