Eric Wert
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b. 1976 Portland, OR
   
   
  EDUCATION
   
2001 Master of Fine Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
   
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
   
   
  SOLO EXHIBITIONS
   
2011 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
   
2009 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
   
2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
   
2006 Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
   
2005 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
   
2004 Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
   
2003 Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
   
1999 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
   
   
  GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2011 Spring Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
  Decadence, Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
  Florabundance, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
  Distinctive Offerings, Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
  Contemporary Realism Invitational, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
  2011 Still Life Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
   
2010 2010 Still Life Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  The Metaphoric Object, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
  Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
   
2009 Is Everything Black and White? Selected Works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  The Leaf and the Page, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
   
2008 15th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
  Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
  The Leaf and the Page, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
  2008 Summer Salon, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
  West Coast 10, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
  Faculty Exhibition, Eric and Rhonna Hoffman Gallery
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
  2008 Still Life Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  Weeds Seeds and Buds, Trudy Labell Fine Arts, Naples, FL
  Still Lives and Other Narratives, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
   
2007 14th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
  Authentic Fake, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Still Lifes , William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  30th Anniversary Exhibition, Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
   
2006 Decade, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  12th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
   
2005 Representing Representation VII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
  Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
  12th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  Organic Matter, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
  Gallery Artists Portfolio Exhibit, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
   
2004 Winter Guests, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  11th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  Tabula Rasa, Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
   
2003 10th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  Guest List, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
   
2002 Graffinova, International Drawing Triennial, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vassa, Finland
  16th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial 2002, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
  Natural History, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
  About Looking at Things, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
   
2001

Urban League Civic & Arts Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Scholarship Exhibit
Union League Club, Chicago, IL

  Fantastic Voyage, Dittmar Gallery, Evanston, IL
   
2000 Noir, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
  Red, Dittmar Gallery, Evanston, IL
   
1999 Anatomy in the Gallery, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
   
1998 New Talent II, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
   
   
  PUBLICATIONS
   
2011 Partridge, Laura A. “The Miller Gallery presents Contemporary Realism”, AEQAI, October 15. web.
  Exploratory Methods”, American Art Collector, February, p 165 -168
  Laura Hitt. “Sin Boldly”, Santa Fe Reporter, July 1
   
2010 “Eric Wert”, Poets and Artists, September, p. 82-88
  "Fresh Takes On Still Life", American Art Collector, March, p 156 - 158
   
2009 "Macabre Sensibilites" , American Art Collector, November, p 118 - 121
(cover image)
  Sarah Buttenweiser, "Eric Wert: Solo Exhibition", Art New England, October/November, p 56
   
2008 Artner, Alan, "'Leaf' falls on the side of tradition", Chicago Tribune, September 11
  "'Leaf And The Page' On View At Illinois State Museum", Antiques and the Arts Online, August 26
  Woodward, Josef, "West Coast Ten - Sullivan Goss gathers similarly-minded West Coast-based painters", Santa Barbara News-Press, June 13
   
2007 Dan DeNiccola, "Getting Real", Northampton Gazette, December 14
  "Eric Wert", American Art Collector, November, p 146 - 149
  New American Paintings, Issue #59, December
  Mitchell, Phoebe. "Arts Almanac", Northhampton Gazette, January 22
  "Competition Spotlight", The Artist's Magazine, June, p 88
   
2006 “Eric Wert and Jennifer Nehrbass””, American Art Collector, May, p 74-77
   
2005 Mellen, Kathleen “Paintings That Detail the Wild Side of Domesticity”,
Northampton Gazette, November 22
  “The State of the Realist Nation”, American Art Collector, October, p 145
New American Paintings, Issue #59, August
  Mitchell, Phoebe. “Show Puts Motion into Still Life”, Springfield Republican, February 7
  Russel, Gloria. “Still Life Exhibit Pushes Viewers to the Edge”, Northampton Gazette,
February 10, p. H2
   
2004 Sundell, Ivy, Art Scene, Chicago 2004, Crow Woods Publishing
  Hawkins, Margaret. "Gallery Glance", Chicago Sun Times, January 23
   
2003 New American Paintings, Issue #47, August
  Hawkins, Margaret. "Gallery Glance", Chicago Sun Times, April 4
   
2002 "National Competition Winners", Artist Magazine, December
  Brunetti, John. "Seeing But Not Believing", CAC Chicago Artists News,
October, p.6
   
1999 Grisham, Esther. "No Nature", Dialogue, March/April, pp. 16-17
  Kusimba, Chapuruka. The Rise and Fall of the Swahili States, Altamira Press
(Illustrations)
   
   
  PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
   
  Illinois State Museum
  New Britain Museum of American Art
   
   
  AWARDS AND HONORS
   
2007 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award
   
2001 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, IL
   
2000 Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
   
1999 Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
   
   
  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 - present Adjunct Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
   
2002-2007 Adjunct Instructor, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
Harrington Institute of Interior Design
   
1996-1999 Scientific Illustrator, Anthropology Department, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL