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Dennis Bertram
 
 
About the Artist

I clearly remember the day, while painting en plein air a naturalistic landscape that in my gut I felt a bothersome dissatisfaction with my work and an epiphany of sorts occurred and I re-thought what attracted me to the subjects I was painting - it was the major shapes and not the details. Then, after studying a few of my new simplified paintings, an amazing thing occurred. I realized I could command the shapes, create them and then my paintings became not reflections of the world before me but reflections of the world within me, and what had been consuming my thoughts in one fashion or another was the difficulty of making good decisions in a complex world. The results are my landscape paintings. The simplified shapes became a vocabulary by which I construct complex images.

 
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They are Flying by the Seats of Their Pants

2008
Oil on canvas
61 x 76.2 cm

They are Flying by the Seats of Their Pants
Decisions made "on the fly" often fall apart, even if made by influential people about important things affecting the welfare of many people.

Over the Horizon

2008
Oil on canvas
61 x 76.2

Over the Horizon

Trail (Large)

2007
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 121.9

Trail (Large)

Seaside

2007
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 61

Seaside

Wold View

2004
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 121.9

Wold View
Many people seem to think images like this one represent real places. I can't blame them, they do seem to remind people of places. They remind me of places - usually old Europe, in particular the Netherlands where I was born. But they are all imaginary. They all have their foundation in "complexity," but here I am superimposing memories on top of the theory.

World View - detail

2004
Oil on canvas
detail

World View - detail

2004
Oil on canvas
detail

Tower

2006
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 121.9

Tower

Tower - detail

2006
Oil on canvas
detail

Valley

2006
Oil on canvas
121.9 x 91.4

Valley

Valley - detail

2006
Oil on canvas
detail

Valley - detail

2006
Oil on canvas
detail

I Live Here

2005
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 121.9

I Live Here

I Live Here - detail

2005
Oil on canvas
detail

Flying by the Seat of Your Pants, No. 3

2008
Oil on canvas
40.6 x 50.8

They Are All Flying by the Seats of Their Pants

2008
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 122

They Are All Flying by the Seats of Their Pants
Whether in troubled times or not, so many persons seem to be making decisions by the seats of their pants.

Flying by the seats of their pants by four

2009
Oil
66 x 86 cm

Flying by the seats of their pants by four
Quadtych.

Split Skyship

2009
Oil
40.6 x 66 cm

Split Skyship
Diptych
 
Education and biography
Education: Art courses at Buffalo (New York) State College, University of Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery, and Steve Carpenter Studio (Rochester, New York). Degrees include Doctor of Science, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Medicine.

Selected past exhibitions include one person shows:

World Views: Paintings by Dennis Bertram,? Prendergast Library, Jamestown, New York, 2005

"From There to Here: Paintings by Dennis Bertram," Olean Public Library Gallery, Olean, New York, 2003

Landscapes and Figures: Paintings and Drawings by Dennis Bertram,? Virginia Weiss Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2001

A Journey: Paintings by Dennis Bertram,? Carnegie Art Center, Tonawanda, New York, 1999

Selected group shows:

"Saltonstall: The First 10 Years, A Selection of 21 Artists' Work," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2006

Buffalo Society of Artists, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Lewiston, New York, 2003

Hilton Head Art League?s National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1999 (First Place in oil category)

International Juried Show ?98, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, 1998

National Society of Artists? 16th National Juried Show, League City, Texas, 1998
 
Website:  bertramart.com
 
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