Mark Guilbeau
Denver, Colorado

Abnormal Selection
mixed media
11 x 17.5 x 28.5 cm
2005



____Selected exhibitions

  • Consensual Nonreproduction, two-person installation, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, 2005
  • Sculpture Tour 2004-2005, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 2004
  • Residency exhibition, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota, 2004
  • Pathway of Least Resistance, two-person installation, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia, 2003
  • Propaganda and the Suppression of Sensory Perception, two-person installation, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY, Fredonia, New York, 2002
  • The Troubles with Social Irresponsibility, two-person installation, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2002

Mark Guilbeau was born in 1960 in Lafayette, Louisiana and has a BFA, 1985, from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and a MFA, 1987, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Guilbeau has created sculpture gardens in Englewood, Colorado, New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana. A North Carolina Art Council Award supported a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, 2004. He is currently a professor at Metropolitan State College in Denver.

I address political and social issues with my artwork, because I see flaws in how humans conduct themselves on this planet. I want to analyze the inadequacies I perceive and expose them.