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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.
SELECTED ONE- AN TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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 Art’s 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
1998-2010 - American Print Alliance, 4 traveling group shows, over 30 US venues
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; $24.80
Supplied illustrations for: Dragon Killer!; http://www.invoco-verlag.de/ (Homburg, Germany); ISBN 978-3-938165-06-5; $12.80
