Mark Beard

Mark Beard is an irresistible artist—and not just because his previous
exhibitions with our gallery sold out completely.

A visit to Mark’s studio is like discovering Michelangelo’s lair: oil
paintings layer the walls, life drawings litter the table at the feet of
heroic bronzes; ceramics, his handmade artist’s books and
architectural maquettes are everywhere; virtuosity, in every medium.
And then it gets even more interesting.

Mark’s talent is so overflowing that, years ago, he needed to
channel himself into alter egos. Mark invented the persona of “Bruce
Sargeant,” an imagined English artist, contemporary of E. M. Forster,
Rupert Brooke, and John Sloan. Mark also created Bruce Sargeant’s
teacher, Hippolyte Alexandre Michallon, a 19th-century French
Academist. Michallon also taught Edith Thayer Cromwell, an American avant-gardist; and Brechtolt Steeruwitz, the German Expressionist, a most complex personality. The style of each of these artists is individual, brilliant and true.

Mark Beard is unprecedented, but not singular. Accomplished in
every medium, he is more than a complete artist—he is at least five.
(A sixth — Peter Coulter — is now emerging as well.)

ARTWORK BY MARK BEARD AND HIS CIRCLE >>

Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York. Mark’s portraits, nudes, bronzes, and handcrafted books have been shown worldwide; he has also designed over 20 theatrical sets in New York, London, and Germany. His works are in museum collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Atheneum; the Whitney, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Princeton, Harvard, and Yale Universities; Graphische Sammlung, Munich, and many others, as well as over 200 private collections.