An eleven-story mural for an Abercrombie & Fitch store opening in Tokyo next year

Open studios attic mark beard and his collaborators, James Manfredi, bought in 1994 is "very terrible. Lots of core carpet and 1970s, some wall paint on the window was" hu.  table, base centre, from splint. (Photo: David Allee)

I am desperate ground to say: "to the space artist mark beard. This is early in the 1990s, when the Manhattan real estate is still a little bit realistic risks for painter - sculptor. He watched two loft sales in west 38 street building." many 100 pieces of carpet and platform, You know, the 1970s paneling. Some Windows on the lacquer beard. "said:" I am afraid. His agent says it is "Bamm - the Bamm develops." beard and his collaborators have square foot in 3,700 - - space, for 14 years, core carpet gave way to a flat, including a sun-drenched studio big enough to hold a markets - drawing group, shoal platform overgrown with biological manor library by the artist USES lumber and plywood from home depot.


That he can work at home on his monumental canvases is crucial to the prolific Beard, who paints under his own name but also as one of five “characters” he’s invented (he made a mockumentary in which he plays all five, with critics discussing each artist’s work). Right now, Beard (as himself) is working on his largest commission to date: an eleven-story mural for an Abercrombie & Fitch store opening in Tokyo next year (he’s already done pieces for the retailer in New York, Los Angeles, and London). Beard holds the weekly life-drawing group at the studio, which he also uses as a dining room, serving dinner on the painted faux-Baroque table fashioned from plywood and a discarded desk top he found on the street.