Mark Beard (b. 1956 in Salt Lake City)[1] is an American artist.[2][3] Beard works in prints, paint, and as a sculptor, in addition to being a noted stage set designer.[4] His portraits, nudes, bronzes, and handicrafted books were exhibited all over the world.
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He designed more than 20 theatrical sets in 1986–1997 in New York City, London, Cologne, Vienna, and Frankfurt.[5]
Beard is noted for his objection to the fact that while it was once common for artists pass through different stages or period, success being known for one thing and turning yourself into a brand. Beard therefore has developed a number of distinct artist personalities, each with a detailed biography and portrait photograph, to enable himself to work in a variety of styles and mediums.[6]
His different artist personalities include:[5][7]
All artists work in a different style, for example Streeruwitz is expressionist and more somber, while Coulter is postmodern art.
Beard's work by Bruce Sargeant, such as large paintings, friezes and a bronze sculpture, installed since 2005 are featured in Abercrombie & Fitch's flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles, London and in Tokyo.[2]
His works are in museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Albertina, as well as in Princeton, Harvard, and Yale universities and many others, and in more than 200 private collections such as Ralph Lauren.[4] He is represented by ClampArt in New York City, where he resides in a studio in Hell's Kitchen that he bought with his partner, James Manfred.[2][5][9]