BERT MENCO
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Representation

Morpho Gallery (David Leigh), 5216 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, (773)-878-4255

Avram Eisen Gallery, 5202/04 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, (773)-271-3008

Michael Greany Fine Art, 16367 Rynearson Rd., Buchanan, MI 49107, (269)-409-8193, buchananart@comcast.net




Depositories for IMAGEs and other materials

Ryerson & Burnham Art & Architecture Libraries Pamphlet Collections, P-09076, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Northwestern University Archives: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/: Accession #06-133, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2300, (847)-491-3136

Harold Washington Library, 400 South State Street, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

Yad Vashem Art Museum, POB 3477, 91034 Jerusalem, Israel, susan.fraiman@yadvashem.org.il




SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2011                -       Guanlan Printmaking Museum, Shen Zhen, China (planned)

2008                -      Artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest IL

2001                -      Curator’s Choice Artist “Around the Coyote” Fall Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

1996                -      Sponsors’ Prize, 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sap-poro, Japan

1995                -      Award of Excellence, 12th North Shore Art League Midwest Print Show, Chicago, IL




SELECTED ONE- AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS


2010                -      Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (7 shows, 7 international artists)

2009                -      “Muses Etcetera”, Avram Eisen Gallery (with Danny Mansmith, fiber artist), Chicago, IL

2009                -      “Atelierroute Groot Woerden”, Galerie Kunstkring Woerden & Studio Ilja Pronk, Kamerik, Netherlands

2009                -      “Talking Art With....”, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, lecture and display

2007                -      “Daydreams & Night Dreams” (with Karena Karras), College of Lake County Gallery, Grayslake, IL

2007                -      “Paradeigmas of Silent Spring”, Oculus Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004                -      “Sketches and Beyond”, Illinois Institute of Art’s Chicago Campus Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002                -      “Images from Beyond”, Libreria San Pantalon, Venice, Italy

2001                -      “Portraits of the Soul” (with Nancy Plotkin), Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

2001                -      “Dutch Perspectives, American Reflections”, Wilmette Public Library, Wilmette, IL

1999                -      “Extroverted Introspections”, Sharp/Danka Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL

1975                -      Cultural Center, Leamington Spa, UK

1974                -      Library Warwick University, Coventry, UK




SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


1998-2010       -      American Print Alliance, 5 traveling group shows, over 50 venues

2010                -      “80th Anniversary Jubilee Exhibition”, Galerie Bregman, Renkum, The Netherlands

2009                -      Southern Graphics Conference, Portfolio: “Picturing the Beast”, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2008                -      “Nuances of Printmaking”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL

2006-2008       -      “Beyond Boundaries”, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL, 5 venues

2008                -      7th Lessedra World Art Print Annual-Mini Print, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008                -      Voorjaarstentoonstelling “Het Kunstgebeuren”, Ede, The Netherlands

2007                -      “The Exquisite Snake”, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2005-06           -      “Bookplates”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005                -      “Rotterdam Geraakt”, Rotterdams Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2000-04           -      “Reimaging the Multiple” (various venues: USA, Scotland, Spain)

2003                -      “5th Anniversary Exhibition”, Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea

1996/2000      -      3rd & 5th Sapporo International Print Biennales, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan

1998                -      “International Juried Mezzotint Exhibition”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA

1996                -      “Chicago Prints and Printmakers”, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL




SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

2008                -      In: “Mini Print 2008, 7th Lessedra World Art Print Manual”, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria

2007                -      In: Rafal Pospiech,  Bartosz Fraczek: ”Art Periscope, 2007 Calendar”, February, Czestochowa, Poland

2006                -      In: Debra Lader: “Beyond Boundaries: 35 Chicago Artists Connect”, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL, 35 postcards            

2006                -      Bert Menco, Bernd Lindemann, Audrey Niffenegger: “Visions and Voices; 36 Drawings, Prints and Paintings”, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany

2006                -      Bernd Lindemann: Drachentöter! - Dragon Killer! - Tueur de Dragons!,14 illustrations, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany

2006                -      In: Yames Yood, Audrey Niffenegger, Bob Hiebert, Sidney Block: “The Art of the Bookplate”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue/poster (Illinois Art Education Association 2006)

2004                -      In: Wijnand Steemers: “Schilders in Wageningen”, Leida, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2003                -      In: Adrian M. Darmon: “Autour de l'Art Juive, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Photographs”, Éditeur Carnot, Chatou, France

2003                -      In: Jun-Je Jo, Yu Jae-gil: “Seven Prints Artists from around the World”, Hyundai Arts Center Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea

2003                -      In: Stacey Stern, Shawn Sheehy, Audrey Niffenegger, Anita Leverence: “Pandora's Box”, Epicenter Press, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, edition: 150

1996/2000      -       3rd & 5th Sapporo International Print Biennales, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

2000                -      In:Ivy Sundell, “Art Scene, Chicago 2000”, Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL

1997                -      In: Lynne Allen, Phyllis McGibson (Selection), Ruth Weisberg (Introduction) “The Best of Printmaking”, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA

Articles

Arnhemse Courant (Arnhem, The Netherlands); Art in Culture (Seoul, South Korea); artdaily.org (Mexco City, Mexico); ArtScope.net (Chicago, IL); Barneveldse Krant (Barneveld, The Netherlands); Chicago Artists’ News (Chicago, IL); Chicago Reader & Reader’s Guide (Chicago, IL); Chicago Tribune, (Chicago, IL); Contemporary Impressions (Peachtree City, GA); Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry, UK); Daily Northwestern (Evanston, IL); De Gelderlander (Veluwezoom, The Netherlands); De Nieuwe Krant (Arnhem, The Netherlands); Ede Stad (Ede, The Netherlands); Evanston Express & Chicago Arts and Entertainment (Evanston, IL); Evanston Review (Evanston, IL); Evanston Round Table (Evanston, IL); Hokkaido Newspaper (Sapporo, Japan); Hollandse Nieuwtjes (The Dutch Knickerbocker Society of Chicago, IL); Il Gazzettino (Venice, Italy); Kalamazoo Gazette; Lake County Journal (Lake County, IL); Seattle Weekly (Seattle, WA); The Journal of the Mid America Print Council; Venezia News (Italy)




SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL; Internationaal Exlibriscentrum, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium ; Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection of the Flaxman Library of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL; Rotterdam Historical Museum, The Netherlands




MINIPRINT 2010



MINIPRINT 2010

1. Limbo, 2009, Etching, Aquatint, Chine Colle, 19 x 25,5 cm – 425





MINIPRINT 2010

2. Exclamation, 2009, Dry Point, Chine Colle, 16 x 10,5 cm – 275





MINIPRINT 2010

3. Pietà 2010, 2010, Dry Point, Chine Colle, 15 x 5,5 cm – 200






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