ABOUT: Originally a professional modern dancer in NYC, Louisa Bertman’s career catapulted to animation and illustration. Since graduating from Parsons School of Design her splotchy pen and ink signature style is unforgettable. From Mikhail Gorbachev (front page top fold Wall Street Journal) to hotel maid service (Penthouse Magazine), to dorm room door doodles (TV’s The Gilmore Girls), her illustrations appear in diverse media worldwide.
She painted The Car Talk Guys for NPR’s 2009 Calendar (see interview), Michelle Obama for BUST Magazine, Michael Jackson for Dallas Morning News, and Ringo Starr for Live Nation. She illustrated DJ’s for The Village Voice, and composers for GQ Magazine. She’s created animations for AT&T, Nynex and IBM. Her advertising work includes Walz Tetrick’s Kansas Teen Thinking Campaign, Wells Fargo’s African American Entrepreneur Calendar, and The LA Gay and Lesbian Positive Images Campaign. Several of her oversized Rock and Art portraits have been signed by high rollers such as Fergie, Ringo Starr, Cyndi Lauper, Chris Isaak, Ziggy Marley, Huey Lewis, Chicago, Keane, Anna Nalick, and Hilary Duff.
She is humbled and honored for recently being commissioned by the Evers’ family to paint Myrlie and Medgar Evers. In addition, Bertman’s other private collectors include personalities such as Dr. Cornel West, Jules Feiffer, & Tayna Donelly, and Tribe’s Terri and Eric Brossius.
Another recent commission was by Broadway’s American Idiot Producer Laurence Kaye to create a signed/numbered limited edition series for Green Day’s American Idiot Broadway Debut. The recipients of this limited collection include: Director Michael Mayer, Ira Pittleman, Tom Hulce, Tom Kitt, Steven Hoggett, & Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt.
CLIENTS:
AT&T, Bank of America, Ben-Gurion University, Bitch, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Museum, Berklee College of Music, BUST, Colorado BIZ, Crain’s New York Business, Dallas Morning News, Fidelity, FOX Online, Gilmore Girls, Girlistic, GQ, Grafuck, Hard Rock, Harvard Business Review, High Times, HOW Design, Hyphen, IBM, Jazziz, Kansas, KONG, LA Gay & Lesbian Center, LA City Beat, LA Journal, Live Nation, Louisville Magazine, Melt, Metro Sports, NPR, Nynex, NY Times, Ottawa Life, Oxford American, Penthouse, Phoenix Magazine, Playgirl, Provincetown Arts, Rennaisant, The Rotarian, Seattle Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Star Trek, TV Guide, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, Walz Tetrick, Weekly Dig, Wells Fargo, Women of Spirit, YRB.
Louisa donates several pieces/yr. to different charities. Please contact Louisa directly for inquiries.
CONTACT:
(illustration assignments & private portrait commissions):
Louisa Bertman
Phone: 617.549.0080
E-Mail: louisa@louisabertman.com
Margarethe Hubauer
For Germany / Switzerland / Austria
mhubauer@margarethe.de
+49.4556.414
(above portrait: Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce)
