Mark Leibert
Wednesday, hotel is a riff on a series of tableaus in the corridor of a mysterious hotel in Jean Cocteau’s “Blood of a Poet” (1932). This animation is part of my hotel cycle, an autobiographical pursuit which weaves elements of memory and fiction in drawings, paintings, sculpture, and the moving image (see the “Hotel Mirror” and “Lobby Flowers” series). The constraints of Peepspace and the viewer’s confrontation with a literal hole in the wall offered an opportunity to pursue new ideas in a short form animation.
Courtesy of Sandler Hudson Gallery.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mark Leibert was born and raised in Honolulu and now lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Leibert’s works create a time and place situated at the threshold between various states of being. His practice includes painting, drawing, time-based works, photography, machine learning, and installation. He has been known to make and prepare his own paint, mediums, and oils. He has taught at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and James Madison University. His work is in private and corporate collections, including the High Museum of Art, Capital One, Ritz Carlton, among others. He was a Co-founder of Day & Night Projects, an artist-run space in Atlanta. He also has a background in surfing, water polo, and modern dance. He received a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Leibert is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery.