A native of Belgium, Guido Maus now resides in the United States, where he is active as a painter and sculptor. Upon moving to New York City in 2000, he maintained a studio in Tribeca for several years, prior to relocating to Birmingham in 2004. With steel as the favorite medium for the artist's outdoor sculptures, the city and its symbiotic connection to that industry made it a fortuitous choice.

Birmingham, Alabama has a quite vibrant and active Art Scene and several galeries like Bare Hands Gallery and Space One Eleven, both non-profit galleries of which the later has constant support and regular event-specific funding from the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation, show excellent contemporary art by local, national and international artists, and beside very powerful Alabama Folk Art regularly shown in several galeries as well as in ongoing rotating exhibitions organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the galeries of institutions such as the Birmingham Southern College, The Alabama School of Fine Arts, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The Altamont School as well as the nearby Montevallo University, all of which have fantastic art programs, have quasi constantly art shows well worth a visit.

Local artists such as Jim Neel, Darius Hill, John Trobaugh, Amy Pleasants, Randy Gachet, Paul Ware, Bryding Adams, Binx Newton, Clayton Colvin, Scott Stephens, Rashid Qandil, Pinky Bass, Derek Cracco, Jürgen Tarrasch, Ashley Allison and Vaughn Randall too name but a very few, are constantly working on new projects, get excellent local exposure through the above mentioned existing chanels, and are getting nationally recognized and shown.

The Birmingham Museum of Fine Art's new curator for contemporary art, Ron Platt, rotates the Museum's quite extensive contemporary art collection as well as the 20th century art collection on a relatively regular schedule, and beside the gorgeous works by artists such as Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella and Barbara Hepworth, the contemporary art galleries are a treat !

So, folks, next time you're in Birmingham, check out the local art scene, you'll be amazed.

Visit my website to see ( and hear !! ) my ' guilty of abstraction ' Show at Birmingham's Space One Eleven.


guilty of abstraction comprises a body of 19 works - painting, sculpture as well as installation - of which 16 were site-specific creations together with poetry and informative text, in form of a small booklet, as well as audio guides with music - each song in direct relation to each individual artwork.
The entire Show was conceived as one large installation and is presented on this website in the exact same order as it is discovered in the gallery.
Together with an individual picture of each artwork, you'll find the poem or text and will be able to hear the song relating to it.

Space One Eleven is a non-profit gallery and a member of the Andy Warhol Initiative for the Visual Arts. SOE is located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama and is one of the very few galleries in the South having constant support as well as regular event-specific funding (grants) from the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation.


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