Marlon Mullen

Mullen, Marlon

Marlon Mullen

painter

Marlon Mullen begins his paintings with photographic images sourced from lifestyle, news, and contemporary art magazines. As he develops a work, Mullen's original magazine page usually becomes obscured, or abstracted, reducing images to a graphic schema of interlocking colors and forms. Mullen has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the Atlanta Contemporary (Georgia), Adams and Ollman (Portland) and White Columns and JTT (both New York). He has been included in Under Another Name at The Studio Museum, Harlem and Create at the Berkeley Art Museum, as well as in group exhibitions at Maccarone, New York, International Art Objects, Los Angeles and Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco. He has been working at the National Institute of Art & Disabilities Art Center (NIAD) in Richmond, California since 1986 and was recently the recipient of the 2015 Wynn Newhouse Award. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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