Margot Bergman
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Margot Bergman
Carrie
2016
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 inches
Margot Bergman
Claire
2017-2018
acrylic on canvas
40 x 34 inches
Margot Bergman
Strange Fruit
2009
acrylic on canvasboard
20 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Marie Christine
2014
acrylic on linen
65 x 50 inches
Margot Bergman
Agnes 312
2015
acrylic and chalk on canvas
65 x 50 inches
Margot Bergman
Le Salon
2014
acrylic and chalk on linen
48 x 36 inches
Margot Bergman
The Girl With The Red Necklace
2014
acrylic on linen
50 x 40 inches
Margot Bergman
Bernice
2014
acrylic on linen
50 x 40 inches
Margot Bergman
Hair Clip
2014
acrylic on linen
65 x 50 inches
Margot Bergman
Greetings
2013-14
acrylic on linen
36 x 54 inches
Margot Bergman
Clatter
2013
acrylic on linen
64 x 48 inches
Margot Bergman
Blue
2012
acrylic on linen
44 x 28 inches
Margot Bergman
Night Flower
2012
acrylic on linen
44 x 28 inches
Margot Bergman
Still Life with Pink
2012
acrylic on linen
48 x 36 inches
Margot Bergman
Lulu
2012
acrylic on found canvas
24 x 17 3/4 inches
Margot Bergman
Gertrude II
2010
acrylic on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Wilma
2010
acrylic on found paper
5 1/2 x 5 inches
Margot Bergman
Blondie
2009
acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Margot Bergman
Cuddles
2009
acrylic on canvas
17 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Margot Bergman
Opal
2009
acrylic on canvasboard
20 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Chucky
2009
acrylic on canvasboard
20 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Peony
2008
acrylic on canvasboard
16 x 12 inches
Margot Bergman
Joy Gaye
2008
acrylic on canvas
32 x 20 inches
Margot Bergman
Gertrude II
2010
acrylic on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Totem
2010
acrylic on canvasboard
16 x 12 inches
Margot Bergman
Room
2010
acrylic and collage on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Margot Bergman
Night Listener
2010
acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Margot Bergman
Willis
2009
acrylic on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Margot Bergman
Grama’s Gift
2009
acrylic on canvas
10 x 13 inches
BIO
b. 1934
Lives and works in Chicago.
Active in Chicago since the late 1950s, Margot Bergman’s work in the last few decades has primarily revolved around two bodies of work, the Wonderland paintings and her Other Reveries series. For the latter, she uses existing artworks – usually found in thrift shops or flea markets – on which she adds just enough to draw out a portrait latent in the image. Some of the latest visages feature an uncanny double-face, both of which directly address the viewer. These collaborations are alternately playful, haunting, surrealistic, melancholic and evocative, and they betray an incredibly potent imagination. In her neo-expressionistic Wonderland paintings, Bergman has created a post-apocalyptic or prehistoric topography populated by explosively animated creatures including rabbits, pigs, jackals, and birds. Ferociously personal and ambitious in scale, the Wonderland pieces are frightening and revelatory.
Curriculum Vitae
PDF - Margot Bergman CVSelected Press
Exhibitions
- Independent May 9 - 12, 2024
- Hubcap Diamond Star Halo Corbett vs. Dempsey at Twenty September 14 - November 2, 2024
- Margot Bergman Grover's Corners June 10 - August 6, 2022
- Independent Art Fair March 5 - 8, 2020
- Margot Bergman March 16 - April 21, 2018
- Small Sculpture September 8 - October 14, 2017
- Nicole Eisenman July 15 - August 19, 2017
- Nicola Tyson July 15 - August 19, 2017
- Shana Lutker July 15 - August 19, 2017
- Margot Bergman Greetings June 20 - July 19, 2014
- Margot Bergman Degree of Separation January 22 - December 3, 2011
- Anne Harris Paintings & Drawings September 5 - October 11, 2008
- Margot Bergman The Dust Blows Forward, The Dust Blows Back September 5 - October 11, 2008
- Full Frontal a Dirty, Lewd, Erotic Show July 14 - August 26, 2006
- Margot Bergman Wonderland and Other Reveries April 7 - May 6, 2006
News + Events
- Margot Bergman exhibition, Cups, opens online at Anton Kern Gallery
- Margot Bergman, Diane Simpson and Karl Wirsum listed as Newcity’s Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists
- Margot Bergman solo exhibition opens at Vielmetter Los Angeles
- Margot Bergman Solo Exhibition Reviewed by Roberta Smith
- Margot Bergman solo exhibition Family Album opens at Anton Kern Gallery
- Margot Bergman in solo exhibition at Museum Langmatt, Baden
- Margot Bergman’s solo exhibition opens at Sigfrids/Howard’s
- Margot Bergman reviewed in the New Art Examiner
- Margot Bergman Reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
- Margot Bergman and Brian Calvin exhibitions on view at Anton Kern Gallery, NY
- Margot Bergman Interview featured on Inside\Within
- Margot Bergman, Greetings, nominated for best show of 2014 by AICA
- Margot Bergman in Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the MCA Chicago
- Margot Bergman & Jimmy Wright at NADA New York
- Margot Bergman featured in the Paris Review
- Margot Bergman in group show at Galeria Nara Roesler
- Margot Bergman solo exhibition at Anton Kern