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Paintings: Eric Wert: Biography

ERIC WERT

BORN
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
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
2006	13th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gallery Artists Portfolio Exhibit, 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 and 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
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 Viewer 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
New Britain Museum of American Art
AWARDS AND HONORS
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
2002 – present	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