Bert Menco

Bert Menco is a Dutch artist, living in the USA. A retired scientist (Northwestern University's Department of Neurobiology and Physiology where he was employed as a Research Associate Professor), he has been making art all his life. In addition to drawing and painting, he works in intaglio printmaking, etching, drypointing and mezzotinting. He has exhibited widely and won several awards, among them a Sponsor's Prize at the Third Sapporo International Print Biennale (1996, Japan). His work was included in The Best of Printmaking, An International Collection, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, 1997 (see below, under articles). He has had numerous solo shows and his art is present in more than hundred public and private collections.

Bert's dreamlike images often deal with confined spaces that contain characters that reach out to one another but do not quite succeed in meeting, a reflection of a precarious equilibrium between the world you are in and the one you aspire to be in. His images balance on the edge between both.

Please, contact artist (http://www.bertmenco.com/contact.html) in case of interest in any of his works.


SELECTED ONE- AN TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011 - “Our Neighbors-Ourselves/Ourselves-Our Neighbors (with Michelle Stone)”, Almquist Gallery, North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, IL, USA

2010 - “80th Anniversary Jubilee Exhibition” (with Danielle Perney), Galerie Bregman, Renkum, Netherlands

2010 - “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta in Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

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

2007 - “Daydreams and Night Dreams” (with Karena Karras), Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL, USA

2004 - “Sketches and Beyond”, Illinois Institute of Arts, Chicago Campus Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2003/04 - Niendieker Galerie, Arnhem, The Netherlands

2003 - “Refined/Defined”, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL, USA

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

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

1974 - Library Warwick University, Coventry, UK


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2010-2011 - “On and Of Paper”, Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2010 - “SIPA 2010”, Gallery MAC, Bexon Convention Center, Busan, South Korea

2010 - “Animal Farm” and “Politics of Fear” exhibitions, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2008/10 - 7th and 9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual-Mini Print, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

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

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

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

2006-2008 -”Beyond Boundaries”, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL, USA, and four other venues

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, USA

2005 - ”Works”, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL, USA

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

2000-04 - “Reimaging the Multiple”, venues in the USA, Scotland, and Spain

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

2003 - “Graphical Triptych”, Studio Arborhenum, Rhenen, The Netherlands

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

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

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

1994 - National Sketchbook Invited, Columbia College Book Arts Center, Chicago, IL, USA

1987-91 - Galerie “Van den Krommenakker”, Arnhem, The Netherlands


BOOKS

“Visions and Voices”, 36 images, poetically accompanied by Bernd Lindemann, foreword: Audrey Niffenegger; http://www.invoco-verlag.de/ (Homburg, Germany); ISBN 978-3-938165-03-4; $29,97

Supplied illustrations for: “Dragon Killer!”; http://www.invoco-verlag.de/ (Homburg, Germany); ISBN 978-3-938165-06-5; $12,77

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