James Herbert (born 1938) is an American painter and filmmaker known
for directing a series of music videos for the band R.E.M.. He has
also made over forty short films, including John Five (1992) and Jumbo
Aqua (2001), and directed four independent features: Scars (1997),
Speedy Boys (1998), Rabbit Pix (2005) and Abandoned House (2007). Some
of his short films have been collected on the video compilation
Figures (1990).Herbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received
his BA at Dartmouth College and his MFA at the University of Colorado
in 1962. After graduation, Herbert moved to Georgia and joined the
faculty of the art department at the University of Georgia.He studied
with the abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still and the
experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.He has received several awards,
including an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant, two grants from the
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts
senior fellowship, a Lewis Comfort Tiffany grant, and a McDowell
Colony fellowship.
for directing a series of music videos for the band R.E.M.. He has
also made over forty short films, including John Five (1992) and Jumbo
Aqua (2001), and directed four independent features: Scars (1997),
Speedy Boys (1998), Rabbit Pix (2005) and Abandoned House (2007). Some
of his short films have been collected on the video compilation
Figures (1990).Herbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received
his BA at Dartmouth College and his MFA at the University of Colorado
in 1962. After graduation, Herbert moved to Georgia and joined the
faculty of the art department at the University of Georgia.He studied
with the abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still and the
experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage.He has received several awards,
including an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant, two grants from the
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts
senior fellowship, a Lewis Comfort Tiffany grant, and a McDowell
Colony fellowship.
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