Current and Upcoming Exhibitions and other Events (most are on hold or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

• 1 - Frank & Lydia's Italiaanse IJssalon - “Bert Menco”, (small ongoing display), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 2 - 't Zonnetje - “Bert Menco - Grafiek” (see also here; Europe's oldest coffee, tea, and spice shop, in existence since VOC times, 1642, in its original location, invited by its proprietor, Marie Louise Velder, image), Haarlemmerdijk 45, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Monday, March 9, 2020 - until notice; Tuesdays - Fridays: 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM, Mondays: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM,  Saturdays: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (mainly by invitation only).
• 3 - North Shore Art League, Winnetka, Illinois, USA - “Swansong at the League” (see also here), small monotypes and block prints (image). Tuesday, January 12 - TBD date in March, 2021, Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
• 4 - Boston Printmakers - “Connect”, traveling exhibition 2021 -2023 (image); first location: Providence Art Club, Providence, RI as part of the 2021 Southern Graphic Council Conference, Sunday, March, 28 - Friday, April 16, 2021. Reception: Sunday, March 28, 2021 (times TBA).
• 5 - Stichting Grafein, Purmerend, The Netherlands - “International Print Mail Art Project” and  here; online exhibition (image, also here). Official onset: Tuesday, April 30, 2021. 
• 6 - “5 Global Print 2021 - Douro, Portugal” (with Mariko Ventura, image; curated by Nuno Canelas). Monday, August 9 - Sunday, October 31, 2020.
• 7 - “Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street” (invited by Denise Brady, Paula Wallace after an initiative by Beau Beausoleil, image; one set inccluded in the Baghdad Public Library, Baghdad, Iraq).

Virtual “Left-Over” Exhibitions

• 1 - Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative (CPC) - “30 artists/30 years show” (invited by Deborah Mares-Lader, image).
• 2 - Cluj Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - “Holocaust” (curated by Ovidiu Petca, 20 artists, my works in catalogue and article/video).
• 3 - Lessedra Art Gallery - “19th Lessedra World Art Print Annual” (for image see p. 22).
• 4 - Webster University - “Works on Paper” (image) . 

Representation

• Morpho Gallery - Chicago, IL, also 1 and 2 (page 7)
• Rosenthal Fine Art - representing Michael Greany Fine Art, Chicago, IL, e..g. 1 

Interviews and Blogs

• Art of Chicago - by Stephanie Hayden, with links to many favorite artists
• Uturn - by Julie Reichert-Marton
• Happy Faces Chicago-1 - studio visit by Amy Rudberg
• Happy Faces Chicago-2 - CPC, 2009, small print show (Amy Rudberg)
• Print Art - illustrated 2015 article (Chinese) by Zhao Jiachun of the China Guanlan Original Printmaking Base (Shenzhen) (Bert also gave a seminar at the Base)
• Neotericart and New Art Examiner - an extensive review (2015) by Diane Thodos

Available Books, Magazines, and Objects

• “Visions and Voices” - 36 images (cover, poster), text: Bernd Lindemann, foreword: Audrey Niffenegger; invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany, ISBN 978-938165-03-4: $29.97; in German & English, ISBN 978-3-938165-09-6, 2006, € 28.--
• “Dragon Killer”- 14 illustrations on a text by Bernd Lindemann, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany, ISBN 978-3-938165-06-5, $12.77; in German, English & French with two additional illustrators, ISBN 978-3-938165-05-8, 2006, € 16.20
• “Art Scene Chicago, 2000” - Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL, ISBN 0-9665871-7-0, 2000, $15.00
• “The Best of Printmaking”, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, ISBN 12: 9781564963710/ISBN 10: 1564863713, 1997, antiquarian availability, about $10 - $200.

Websites Featuring Bert's Artwork and Art Involvement

• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 - Anatomically Correct
• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 (exercise 1) | Link 6| Link 7a and 7b  | Link 8 | Link 9 |Link 10 | Link 11 | Link 12 |Link 13 | Link 14 | Link 15 | Link 16 | Link 17
• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 - Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative (CPC
• Pinterest
• Earlier versions of this site
• Northwestern University Web Archives
• Netherlands Institute for Art History
• China Guanlan Original Printmaking Base and 1 - also Lingshi catalogue
• Bienal Douro (Portugal) - featured artist, artist page
• Woman Made Gallery (also 1,  2 and 3)
• Printworks Gallery - important former Chicago Gallery (also here)
• Splitgraphic: International Graphic Art Biennial Split (Croatia) - click for high resolution images
• Bert's Facebook Page - also 1,  2 and 3
• Saatchi Gallery
• FineArtAmerica
• Culture Inside
• Exto
• absolutearts
• Illinois Artists' List
• Columbus Library
• Artworldchicago - Bert's page (also 1)
• Red and Gold Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Artslant
• Evanston Art Center
• Oxalá Fine Art - see also 1
• Heartland Foundation - Art Against AIDS/Art of Human Rights benefits (also 1)
• One Inspired Evening, also 1 - benefitting the homeless
• Gravatar logo
• Block Museum, Evanston, IL - “Exquisite Snake”
• College of Lake County
• The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• Chicago Artist Archives
• On Exhibit: Bert Menco's Second-Generation Nightmares - Chicago Reader
• Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, Daydreams & Night Dreams, also etching “Extinct”
• Artdaily - refers to the exhibition above
• Museum Rotterdam
• Ryerson & Burnham Libraries Art Institute of Chicago
• AJAC
• Autour de l'Art Juif - pages 175 & 176
• ArtCult
• Friedberg, Rubin & Associates Art Consulting
• Other Voices - covers issues 31 and 37
• International Society of Artists - advocacy (signed on)
• Iraq - Artists Respond - initiated this benefit
• Lowlands - Peter Thompson: film about Vermeer

Favorite Artists and Galleries Additional to Those Listed in the Stephanie Hayden Interview

• Heather Accurso - delicate surreal drawings
• Montserrat Alsina - spiritual works, also Colibri Studio & Gallery
• Arnhem aan Zee - art(ist)s in and around Arnhem
• Corrado Balest - Venetian arcadian artist
• Susan Barron - visual poetry
• Bohemian art - exhaustive selection
• Michelle Browne - organic prints using fiber
• Deborah Bryan - etchings of birds and more
• Pamela Callahan & John Walté - two fine Wisconsin artists
• Eddie Campbell -  comics and more great comics
• Kass Copeland - imaginative collages
• Jeanine Coupe-Ryding - a wonderful printmaker
• Sean Culver - intricate cosntructions, Daguerreotypes, etc.
• Greta Cune - Dutch, and beyond
• Susan Curry - very fine porcelain teapots, etc.
• Andrea Deszö - artist books, one of a kind, etc.
• David Driesbach - whimsical intaglio
• Emil Ferris, Michael Ferris, and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris - a family of very talented artists
• Curt Frankenstein - a very special artist and person
• Bill Frederick - masterful drawings; see also 1
• Indira Freitas-Johnson - contemplative meditation
• Galerie Art - fine Czech prints
• Esperanza Gama - Mezo-American
• David Gista - haunted and inspirational
• Leslie Golomb - the complex technique of photogravure
• Michael Goro - masterful etchings
• Andries Gouws - uncomfortable realism
• Dan Grzeka - cool prints and printmaker links
• Susan Hall - dreams and dreaming
• Richard Halstead - Richard, the “best” for portraits
• Barbara Hannigan - an amazingly versatile singer/performer
• Allison Hill & Pablo Perea - selfs and friends
• Joseph Hirsch - an incredible set of maps
• Tom Huck - wood- and linocuts, rural US
• Yumiko Irei - refined intaglios, nature
• Japanese Ukiyo-e prints - exhaustive
• Akiyama Kanako - great narrative art

• Hashimoto Kansetsu - wonderful Japanese artist, wonderful Kyoto garden
• Karena Karras - surrealism, Mexican tradition
• William Kentridge - more: 1 | 2
• Jissy Keuenhof - multifaceted sculptures and prints
• Sohee Kim - very playful and complex prints
• Juul Kraijer and AjiVN -dreams of selfs and alter-egos
• Lyubomir Krastev - uneasy realism, mostly etchings
• Ruttiporn Leepanuwong - a very talented Thai printmaker
• Misha Livshultz - and his father Chaim
• Guerrino Lovato - amazing masks, Venice
• Amy Madden - drawings
• Danny Mansmith - very creative fiber art
• Craig McPherson - see especially his mezzotints
• Ann Meade - Neill Sanders' (2nd cousin) wife 
• Daniel Menco - Menco's Mix, Bert's nephew
• Emma Menco - Bert's niece: winning photograph
• Ido Menco - Bert's brother's photography
• Joshua Menco - Bert's filmmaker nephew
• Barbara (paintings) and Ben Mittman (photographs) - 20th century icons and Paris, among others
• Sonya Montenegro - tender, whimsical
• Jackie Moses - surreal houses and landscapes
• Anne Muller - suspended emotions
• Miriam Nerlove - wonderful watercolor illustrations
• Peter Olson - birds, birds, birds
• Teresa Pankratz - printed bookhouses, also 1
• Karen Perl - Chicago painted in silence
• Sandra Perlow - abstracted biology and landscape
• Chaja Polak - personal and sober narratives
• Marilyn Propp/David Jones - great artist couple
• Paula Rego - surreal fantasies
• Hella Rottenberg - investigative journalist/essayist, Eastern Europe specialty (e.g.,Window on Russia)
• Jay Ryan - silkscreen master
• Lique Schoot - intimate self-portraits
• Don Seiden - animal sculptures
• Peter Sis - picture books full of mystery
• David Small -author/illustrator, e.g., of Stitches
• Diana Solís - inventive, playful
• Sue Sommers - Nature, foremost
• Michelle Stone - sculptural and sculptures
• Jan Svankmajer - the ultimate surrealist
• Blair Thomas - a very inventive puppeteer
• Bruce Thorn - nearly abstract
• Lika Tov - Bible-inspired collagraphs
• Jirí Trnka, “The Hand” - ultimate animation
• Mariko Ventura - ascetic ceramics
• Marlaine Verhelst - dolls, puppets...or sculptures?
• Chris Ware - Chicago's amazing graphic novel author/artist

Other Art Affinities

• US Galleries, Art Fairs, etc.
• Chicago - see Cultural Center and its Exhibitions
• The Visualist - a comprehensive Chicago visual arts calendar
• Chicago Art District
• Art-Design-Chicago 
• Chicago Gallery News
• Artists of Chicago
• Chicago Artists' Coalition and Chicago Artists' Resource
• New Art Examiner - a Chicago-based art magazine
• Clef Notes journal - Chicago art magazine
• Gapers Block - Chicago on line art magazine
• Art Letter - Paul Klein's mostly Chicago art notes
• Etching - process
• Evanston Print & Paper, Evanston Art Center, North Shore Art League, Lill Street, The Art Center Highland Park, Spudnik Press, Hoofprint Workshop - Chicagoland printmaking facilities not listed elsewhere on this site
• Chicago Printer's Guild - a Chicago Printmaker's resource
• Prints America - large collection of American prints, housed in Evanston
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Grafiek & Grafein - two Dutch organizations for the Graphic Arts
• Aga Lab - major printmaking studio Amsterdam
• Nobilis Foundation - an important print depository in The Netherlands
• China Printmaking Museum - a museum uniquely devoted to the printmaking arts
• Edward Lyons, Charbonnel, Graphic Chemical, Takach, Polymetaal - major printmaking materials' suppliers
• Cave Paper, Paper Connection - printmaking papers
• Artists Book House - a possible book venue, school, museum, shop and café  in Evanston, IL
• Transit, Ragdale - more Chicago-area artist' venues/resources/residency
• Triennial Cracow - listing international print shows
• Call for Entry, Art Deadlines List - submission opportunities
• International Print Center, New York
• Journal of the Print World, Printmaking Today, Art in Print - magazines specialized in works on paper
• The Drawing Center, New York
• Morgan Library and Museum, New York - among others The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
• Europeana - digitized European art collections
• Codart and Codart Masterpieces - Dutch and Flemish art, worldwide + their 100 master pieces 
• Lukas - art in Flanders
• DBNL - Dutch cultural history and literature
• Kunst, Dutch Culture, Artsalon Holland - good Dutch art news
• Kunstschrift, Museumtijdschrift, Vind Magazine - some very good Dutch art magazines, Kunstschrift being the oldest and always covering a single topic
• Dutch Royal Library - exhaustive
• Vereniging Rembrandt -Dutch art collections' fund
• Tefaf, Pan, - important art fairs in The Netherlands
• Gary Schwartz - art news from The Netherlands
• Google Art Project - museums worlwide, high resolution images
• Artdaily, Art Newspaper, Apollo Magazine
• Wikigallery
• E-Art Now, One Arty Minute - more art news
• Artcritical - insightful art reviews (e.g., by Diane Thodos)
• Art schools - a resource
• Marns (art theft deposition), Culture Crime News(large database), and Art Loss
• Resartis, Alliance of Artists Communities, Rate my Artist Resicdency - artist residency resources
• Holocaust Stolen Art List & Lost/stolen art Germany and The Netherlands
• YIVO Archives - Jewish life and culture
• Jewish Art Salon - international Jewish artists
• Art Conservation Issues
• Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE)
• Arts Action Fund, Arts Alliance Illinois and Lawyers for the Creative Arts- arts' advocacies
• Icoonic House & Artists Studios, Dezeen - architecture, etc.
• Oriental Architecture 
• Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Mazza Museum & Rosenbach Library - children books; the third one contains works of  Maurice Sendak
• Brut Museum - Lausanne, Switzerland
• Museum of the Jewish People
• Savitsky Collection - Karakalpak Museum, Nukus, Uzbekistan
• Lambiek and Griffioen Grafiek - great Dutch comic-book sites
• Doll and Puppet Art, Puppet Theaters
• Poses -helpful drawing/painting site
• The Rembrandt tutorials - learning from the master in his (simulated) voice
• Philobiblon, Colossal - book-arts sites
• Nobody Here - site as art; fun to explore