Artist and Interior designer, Bobby Beard
The work of painter, installation artist and designer, Robert Roane Beard was on view in the Studio at Studio 249, 249 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
(PRWEB) September 28, 2004 -- New York artist, Bobby Beard will show a survey of paintings in the experimental 3rd floor Studio of the gallery "Studio 249" in Hudson, NY during the Hudson, NY Arts Walk in the Hudson Valley. The artist wil then travel to India to do research for an upcoming project.
Mr. Beard showed his Installation, "Thinking of You" at Studio 249 in 2003.
This year he will exhibit a series of abstract watercolors and acrylic paintings completed over the last two years.
The watercolors are from his travels to Morocco, India, Upstate New York, Turkey.
This fall Mr. Beard will be traveling on an inspirational trip to India, Calcutta and Orissa, in preperation for the next exhibitions.
The larger acrylics are abstract studies in Black.
"The installation, "Thinking of You" is a meditation on the lives of ten friends who have died of AIDS.
As the enclosed photos show, the work consists of a circle of ten piers, each surmounted by a white plaster head and bearing handwritten text that winds around the pier.
The text takes the form of a letter to the deceased
with news of people, places and things that were of particular interest to him and to me.
Because the text winds around the piers, the viewer circles each one while reading, thus gaining a spatial feel for what I intended to be a peaceful circle of remembrance.
Among the ten subject are the art dealer Aladar Marberger, magazine editor Duncan Stalker and landscape architect and designer of Strawberry Fields, Bruce Kelly."
This installation was shown at
Spazio Opus, in Milan, Italy;
Museo del Po in Turin
Studio 249 in Hudson, NY.
"Thinking of You" had rave reviews in the Italian, Journal of Art.
Mr. Beard has exhibited his work in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Turin, Tangier and South Africa.
The Georgia Native has lived and worked between New York City, The Hudson Valley and Miami Beach for the last 21 years.
He attended the University of Georgia, In Athens, Georgia and is from Atlanta.
For information:
Peggy Polenberg
Studio 249 Ltd
646 234 2552
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