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Mark Beard’s solo show opens at the Mattatuck Museum on Sunday, June 9, 20

The Mattatuck Museum mounts a solo show of work by artist Mark Beard, June 9 – September 8, 2013. Beard, an accomplished painter, print-maker, sculptor, and noted theatrical set designer is a master of fiction. His talent is so overflowing that he developed a number of distinct artist personalities with intertwining story lines, each with a detailed biography, to enable himself to work in a variety of styles and media. The central figure in this fantasy world of Beard’s is his imaginary great-uncle Bruce Sargeant (1898–1938), an English artist and contemporary of E. M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, and John Sloan. The fictitious Sargeant is a painter who largely idealized and celebrated the beauty of the male form who, had he not met a tragic and unexpected death in a wrestling accident at the age of 40, may have gone on to achieve the fame and renown of such painters as James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Eakins, or Winslow Homer.

For more information on the exhibition:
http://www.mattatuckmuseum.org/changing

Browse all of Mark Beard’s work at ClampArt